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Sometimes you need to say “no” to Big Brother

Wolverines!

Published August 10, 2018 7:52 am by Claire

Today in 1984 Red Dawn hit theaters. I never liked the movie much, but you can’t fight history; it has become an icon of American resistance. So on its 34th anniversary, here’s some Red Dawn trivia.

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Saturday links

Published August 4, 2018 11:18 am by Claire
  • Leave it to the Lone Star state once again. Texas Tech police say campus carry makes them safer. (Tip o’ hat to LarryA)
  • Michelle Malkin says, “Free Valentino Dixon.”
  • Just in case you need more than the NYT’s assurance that their new hire Sarah Jeong isn’t racist. Or sexist. Or heterophobic. Nooooo, not her. (For the record, I don’t think having creepy opinions is a firing offense; but her hiring does cement NYT firmly in place as a provincial rag of the blue archipelago.)
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    • Friday links

    Published August 3, 2018 2:02 am by Claire
  • Well, so much for the myth of polite Canadians. Give ’em badges and to thuggery they go. And excuse-making, too, of course.
  • Yesterday was 75 years since the uprising at Treblinka.
  • In February, the NYT hired, then immediately fired, a writer who’d made questionable tweets and was friends with a white supremacist. Now they’ve knowingly hired a writer who hates white people. And men. And straights. And they’re standing by her. Cause, you know, that’s okay.
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    • Some things are still worth celebrating

    Published July 4, 2018 1:56 pm by Claire

    I wasn’t going to blog today because a) I don’t do “on demand” blogitude on special occasions and b) because the holiday formerly known as Independence Day has gotten so depressing. But I ran into this and remembered that some American traditions are still very much worth celebrating: H/T Never Yet Melted Bear’s got a good reminder, too.

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