Author: Charles Martel

New Contest: How to Blame Flash Mobs on the Tea Party

Over at The American Interest, Walter Mead has written an interesting piece, “American Tenderbox,” on the recent spate of strong-arm robberies and attacks on whites by flash mobs of young black men: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/07/american-tinderbox/ After succumbing to weariness over a seemingly endless attempt by one contributor on another thread to paint sociology as

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Is the Sky Falling? NYT Item Questions The One

Interesting item from the New York Times today about a “mischaracterization” (what we knucklewalkers call a “lie”) Obama made during the 2008 campaign. The lede: “The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that President Obama in his campaign to overhaul American health care,

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