Matt Philbin
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Whelp, say goodnight to Saturday Night Live. The skit show is limping into its 48th season and it hasn’t been funny in 10, 20 years? Creator Lorne Michael is about 110 and clearly out of ideas. But before he goes, he’s trying one last Hail Mary (is that what they call it in the CFL? Michaels is Canadian.)
SNL announced September 15 it has hired “actor and comedian Molly Kearney,” who it says…
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Switzerland – mountains, chocolates, watches, army knives, shady bank accounts and … bureaucrats snooping around people’s thermostats? It could happen this winter, if the Russia-Ukraine war continues and Putin cuts off the flow of gas to Western Europe.
According to the Daily Mail, “Switzerland is considering putting anyone who heats their rooms above 19C in jail for up to three years.” (That’s…
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Hollywood people are just like us. They suffer the same heartbreaks and fears, feel the same loves and joys we do. Right? I really want to believe that, but then they speak.
Take Jennifer Lawrence (please!). We learn from Variety that a in a new Vogue cover story Lawrence says she’s had two miscarriages before giving birth to her son. That’s tragic, terribly sad for any woman. Then she explains…
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It’s stupid, reckless, racist, patronizing … but otherwise, Bank of America’s “Community Affordable Loan Solution” program is a great idea. BOA is floating no money down, no closing cost mortgages specifically for black and hispanic first-time homeowners. What could go wrong?
According to a BOA press release, the program will start in “in certain Black/African American and/or Hispanic-Latino…
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It’s been quite a week for Maia Kobabe. First, he or she (don’t know, don’t care) won the right to have a dirty book in libraries where kids can get to it. Then, Kobabe got Time Magazine (yep, still exists) to debase itself and refer to him or her with silly made-up pronouns. That’s power baby!
A Virginia judge ruled Tuesday that Kobabe’s memoir, Gender Queer, couldn’t be banned from libraries…
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Now this makes sense. With normal people fleeing California in their thousands, the state has come up with a brilliant plan to replace them: become a sanctuary state for transgender kids and the parents who enable their delusions.
According to a KCRA3 report, the state assembly passed a bill to make California “a haven for transgender youth facing discrimination in other states.” When the senate…
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“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.” – Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke would recognize the people coming for his statue. The original anti-Jacobin could spot our young Jacobins a mile off. Burke (1729 - 1797) was an Irish member of the British Parliament and a political philosopher many consider the Father of Conservatism. From its first months he saw…
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The Washington Post (Democracy Dies on Page One) is all in on the trans mania. Last week, education reporter Moriah Balingit dropped a couple thousand words moaning about a Kentucky transgender middle schooler sho can’t play field hockey. Today, dance critic Sarah L. Kaufman fires up her freak finder to recommend “Six drag queens you should be following on YouTube.”
Only the Post gives you this…
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Have you, dear reader, ever wondered what it’s like to write for The Washington Post? I don’t mean swimming in the power currents of K Street, lunching on the musty glory of Woodward and Bernstein or having intimate access to the rest of the Democrat party. I mean the job’s requirements and compensations day in and day out.
An August 25 piece from education reporter Moriah Balingit offers some…
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It’s become clear that one of the most underreported stories is the “white violence” being visited on People of Color (POC) at our elite universities. Gangs of white students emerge from their gender studies classes and coloring book therapy groups to terrorize nonwhite students with their … presence?
Well, it seems to be a big problem at U.C. Berkeley, where minority students seek the refuge…