Mark Steyn: "Predators for Hillary".
Nobody needed criminal convictions to drop Cosby - just multiple accusations of sexual assault and some out-of-court payouts. But multiple accusations of sexual assault, out-of-court payouts and the loss of his law license [were] apparently not enough to bar Bill Clinton from another eight years in the White House.
The pictures were so compelling I tried to pick them up for this post but couldn't get it right, exactly. Read the article. This: "It's sad that my pretty black hair's going grey and hasn't seen the color of wind, sun or rain yet." Yet.
by ADELLE NAZARIAN20 Aug 201538
"One day they will kill you..."
Despite a belief Islam forbids women to drive men...
Every day, she plies her trade in a business ruled by conservative men. She endures condescending looks, outright jeers, even threats to her life. Most men will not enter her taxi, believing that a woman should never drive for a man.
Yet she earns $10 (£6.50) to $20 a day, enough to provide for her 15 relatives, including her ailing mother. She relies on ferrying women shackled by traditions and fear, who vicariously live their dreams of freedom through her.
Nope. I used to think it did, and recall my naïve amusement at Iran's 1979 revolution. What could a faraway religion possibly have to do with me? Quite a lot, as it happens. Then I used to think what I would do if I'd been around in 1939, wondering what events in Europe had to do with me. What would I have done?
Not really All-Steyn-All-The-Time, but this -- "Living History" -- should be read if for no other reason than to start a conversation. Part of that conversation from my side would be the statement that the Paris kosher market murder victims were not "folks" randomly gunned down but were targeted for being Jews.
When you're living history as opposed to reading it, the trick is knowing when to head for the exit. One of the things I appreciate about, say, Mittel Europeans of a certain age is that, when you meet them in their grand Paris apartments or rambling house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, somewhere deep inside is the memory of the 3am knock on the door or a little boy crouched under the eaves in the attic. A couple of years back, at a very agreeable cocktail party, I found myself talking to a Hungarian Jew about the last days of the war in Budapest. The jig was up but the German puppet regime had figured they might as well kill as many Jews as they could. No time for niceties any more - for trains and camps and paperwork. There was a shortage of ammunition, so they tied the Jews together in a line, dragged them out into the Danube, and then shot the ones at each end. Everyone in between drowned. Aware of what was happening, a family took in my friend and hid him. He now enjoys a prosperous and comfortable life in the United States, but in his core, deep down within, he remembers his teenage self living day to day and never knowing whether the next morning would be his turn to be roped out in the river.
Does history sometimes run backward? Heck yeah. Think of the Dark Ages. And then take a peek at graduating classes of Cairo University 1959, 1979, 1978, 2004.
Class of 1959
Class of 1978
Class of 1995
Class of 2004
The Unberable Lightness of Feminism. Read the whole thing.
In Nigeria and Iraq Muslim armies are selling women as slaves. Iran hanged a woman for fighting off a rapist. ISIS was more direct about it and beheaded a woman who resisted one of its fighters.But we don’t have to travel to the Middle East to see real horrors. The sex grooming scandal in the UK involved the rape of thousands of girls. The rapists were Muslim men so instead of talking about it, the UK’s feminists bought $75 shirts reading, “This is what a feminist looks like” which were actually being made by Third World women living sixteen to a room. This was what a feminist looked like and it wasn’t a pretty picture.
