Identity Politics

Ballad for Biden and Beyond

Featured image “Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were,” sang Neil Young back in 1972. Half a century later, Steven Crowder transformed that tune into “The Hunter Biden Song” (below), well worth attention with Hunter’s old man Joe in the White House. At the outset of 2024, a crucial election year, the people could use more material like that. “Hey Joe,” as Jimi Hendrix wondered, “where you »

Raving gaily

Featured image In the video compilation below, the Washington Free Beacon draws on the chorus of hosannas that greeted the announcement Claudine Gay’s appointment to the presidency of Harvard in December 2022 after a five-month search. The Wall Street Journal reminds us: “That was the shortest search in about 70 years, according to the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.” Gay’s appointment set off a stampede among the media’s herd of independent minds. »

The Face of Evil

Featured image On December 3, a radical group hosted a “teach-in” titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” The panelists linked America and Israel as “settler colonialist” nations–the only ones, apparently, in world history–and thus the source of all evil. This is the whole thing. It goes on for more than two hours, and I don’t recommend that you watch it. Among other things, the panelists celebrate the Hamas massacre of October 7 as »

Totalitarian Tutorial

Featured image “Who you are and who you know yourself to be is valid. We want you to be your authentic self every day.” That was Andrea Palm, Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, in an official video announcing new HHS gender identity, non-discrimination and inclusion policy. Who is this Deputy Secretary, viewers have a right to wonder,  who is so wise in the ways of authenticity? According to her HHS »

Sing a Song of Sixties

Featured image As mentioned previously, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has exposed Buffy Sainte-Marie as Beverly Jean Santamaria, born in 1941 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, with no indigenous ancestry whatsoever. This revelation, though some 60 years too late, should not distract from genuine folk artists of the era. Bob Dylan, for example, told the world the times were a-changin’, so senators and congressmen please heed the call. Your sons and daughters were beyond your »

Still Fakey After All These Years

Featured image Folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie got her start in the Greenwich Village scene and during the 1960s became an indigenous icon. In 1975 she showed up on “Sesame Street” proclaiming, “We want kids to understand that Indians exist. We really are real.” And as Buffy explained, “Cree Indians are my tribe, and we live in Canada.”  That nation showered Sainte-Marie with awards, made her a companion of the Order of Canada, and »

“We Have to Deport People More Often and Faster”

Featured image I have been speculating for some time, and occasionally hinting here, that if Europe wants to survive, at some point it is going to have to deport large numbers of unassimilable “migrants.” I’ve long thought for a variety reasons that France would be the country most likely do this, though don’t count out Sweden or Denmark, which, unbeknownst to most American media, are starting to reckon with rising crime and »

Bipartisan Clemency Push for Domestic Terrorist

Featured image Deploying an AR-15 to gun down two FBI agents, riddling their dead bodies with bullets, and fleeing the scene, would be a clear act of domestic terrorism by today’s standards. A group of congressional Democrats, joined by Rep. Tim Burchett, Tennessee Republican, want clemency for Leonard Peltier, who did all that, and more. In a letter to Joe Biden, the group claims that there were problems with the trial, and »

Glenn Loury Offers Another Helping

Featured image Last week on the 3WHH podcast I included Glenn Loury’s rant about Ibram X. Kendi from several months ago, but it is worth noting that 25 years before Kendi bamboozled Boston University’s moronic leadership into funneling millions into Kendi’s bogus Center for Anti-Racist Research, Boston University had a premier research institute on race issues headed by . . . Glenn Loury. He recounts some of this, and doubles down on »

Newsom jumps the shark

Featured image California Governor Gavin Newsom promised to appoint a black woman to replace the late Dianne Feinstein in the Senate, so you know this is a man who has his priorities in order. Politico reveals that Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s seat. Butler apparently does not reside in California — Politico reports that she is registered to vote in Maryland. However, Butler owns a home in California. When »

No Sex Please—We’re Anthropologists!

Featured image With apologies to the old British farce “No Sex Please—We’re British!”, apparently academic anthropology wants to do a humorless remake. (Did I even need to include “humorless” after “academic anthropology”?) I would have thought that case studies in sex lives was a rather integral part of anthropology, at least it seemed that way when Margaret Mead was the hot anthropologist of her day, a forerunner of the over-rated Jared Diamond. »

No Manifesto Destiny

Featured image Today marks six months since Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, shot her way into the Covenant School in Nashville and gunned down nine-year-olds Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus, and adults Mike Hill, Katherine Koonce, and Cynthia Peak. Hale, a former student at the school, carefully planned the attack for months. The killer left a manifesto explaining her actions but six months after the »

Authoritarian the Librarian

Featured image The onset of Autumn is a good time to recall summer stories that failed to get the attention they deserved. Consider, for example, what happened in Davis, California, back on August 20. The Stephens Davis Branch Library hosted an event by Moms for Liberty (MFL) of Yolo County, featuring speakers formerly with the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and NCAA, as well as legal experts in Title IX and women’s rights »

Killer Construct

Featured image Back around Labor Day, the Canadian government advised that 2SLGBTQI+ persons “could face certain barriers and risks when you travel outside Canada,” because “not all countries have the same values and legal system that we have in Canada.” That is indeed true, in ways that travelers might not imagine. LGBTQ are, respectively, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. “I” means “intersex”  and + is “inclusive of people who identify as »

Another Pretendian

Featured image It pays to be a minority, especially a Native American. That is the only possible explanation why so many people, especially academics, adopt fake Indian identities. There is even a word for it: Pretendian. And it seems as though the more militant the academic, the more likely he actually isn’t Native at all. One more case in point: University of Kansas professor Kent Blansett. The Dakota Scout reports: University of »

Bush League vs. Busch Light

Featured image Transheiser-Busch still doesn’t get it. The supposed CEO (I say “supposed” because he looks like he was plucked from an old J. Peterman catalogue to play CEO) went on CBS This Morning to recite a buschel of corporate talking points about the Bud Light debacle that were stale in 1986 (coincidentally, around the time of the “New Coke”). Bud Light went Busch League with this attempt at damage control. Go »

Kennedy on the Case

Featured image Let’s face it: John Kennedy is the greatest Kennedy ever. No, not John F. Kennedy of the Massachusetts clan, but Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who is for my money the greatest performer in Senate hearings we’ve ever seen. Sam Ervin could have taken lessons from Sen. Kennedy. Yesterday he shone again with his line of questioning of the head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Kelley Robinson, and swimming »