Social Issues
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Other shoe drops: SCOTUS rules 5-4 to overturn gay marriage ban nationwide
Hey, don’t look at me, Chief Justice John Roberts is probably thinking right now. Roberts authored the dissenting view in…
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Obama tells heckler at White House LGBT pride event: ‘You’re in MY house!
In case Barack Obama hasn’t heard, his term in office ends (as of this writing) in exactly 574 days, 12 hours, 52 minutes, and 32…
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Woman’s defense for hiding man wanted by police: ‘All he did was shoot a cop’
Houston — make that Milwaukee — we’ve got a problem. Actually, two problems, the first of which has been dealt with. Najee Harmon,…
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Time to rename U.S. military bases named after Confederate generals?
In an era where there is little bipartisan accord, it is significant that many on the right are joining the…
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College teacher: I chose not to have children, because they’d be white
A white Ivy League professor has taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to condemn her own race, declaring that she…
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Man transitioning to woman challenges Facebook’s prohibition on displaying female nipples
You may need a scorecard for this one. You will certainly need to be up on “current events” — particularly, the…
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Charleston killer exhibited obvious warning signs that went unheeded by those closest to him
In the wake of the tragic and senseless killing of nine people in Charleston, South Carolina last week, evidence continues to…
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New black hashtag, #WeWillShootBack, urges retaliation: What could go wrong? (Video)
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has given way to a new, more proactive meme promising — to paraphrase a memorable line by Sean Connery’s character…
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Woman recruited for Harvard’s female swimming team swaps sex, will swim for men instead
Schuyler Bailar had something she wanted to get off her chest before heading off to college. And judging from pictures she…
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Some white people are terrorists and some white people are racists (Video)
If the headline of this post specified any demographic other than white people, I would be guilty, according to conventional present-day…
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New York Times wonders whether competency tests are always racist
An article published Thursday in The New York Times focuses at length on the tests given to evaluate prospective teachers across the country, and…
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Libs: S.C. church shooter was egged on by Confederate flag over statehouse or something
The name and identity of the suspect in last night’s tragic shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., were…
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BREAKING: Suspect in massacre of 9 people at black S.C. church is apprehended
Police and federal officials in Charleston, S.C., have announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with the killing yesterday of…
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Daily dose of Dolezal: Says her ex forced her to perform ‘sex acts’ on tape
Sex, lies, and videotape. Rachel Dolezal’s, whose 15 minutes should have expired weeks ago, is back, this time claiming that her…
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McKinney redux: Police called to break up fight at public pool accused of excessive force, racism (Video)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Police are summoned to a swimming pool where emotions have spun out of control and…
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Michelle Obama to young Muslim women in UK: I feel your pain
How comforting to know that Barack Obama is not the only member of his family willing to diss the U.S. while on foreign…
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Rachel Dolezal is not only a liar and a poseur but a fine art plagiarist
Yesterday, LU ran a piece noting that Rachel Dolezal, the embattled white woman who has passed herself off as black, was stepping down…
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BREAKING: Rachel Dolezal saga’s final chapter? Resigns as Spokane NAACP head
Rachel Dolezal, the “black” activist who caused a national sensation when it was revealed she was actually white and faking her…
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Cemetery removes child’s headstone, leaving grieving single mom heartbroken
“The only things that are certain in life,” Benjamin Franklin quipped, “are death and taxes.” A story out of Malvern,…
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WaPo tries to resurrect claim that 20% of women are sexually assaulted in college
The Washington Post has released a large new poll that it says buttresses activists’ claims that one woman in five is sexually…
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Most diverse place in America probably not what you’d expect
I’ll give you twenty questions — hell, I’ll give you a hundred — but I bet you’ll never guess what locality in the U.S.…
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Obama seeks to ‘desegregate’ wealthy neighborhoods via HUD (Video)
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” candidate Barack Obama declared shortly before Election Day…
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Civil rights activist who marched with MLK: Something missing from ‘black lives matter’ meme (Video)
It started as a hashtag but it’s everywhere you look nowadays. I am referring to the meme “Black lives matter,” which…
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President of Spokane NAACP ratted out as closet white by her own parents *UPDATE*
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” That is the tagline from a classic episode of “Seinfeld” in which Jerry and George…
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