Multiple Serial Highway Snipers?

By Anonymous Conservative

Good post on Free Republic here on six different states with possible serial highway sniper problems

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2015/08/24/windshield-shatters-on-i-25-in-fort-collins/32283265/

A woman reported her windshield shattered while she was driving on Interstate 25 in Fort Collins on Sunday, marking the third reported shattered window on the interstate in Larimer County in four days, continue…

Women’s Three Fantasy Archetypes

By CH

A reader alerted the CH audience to an excellent write-up by a seduction forum member, The Thin Man, titled “Woman’s 3 Fantasy Archetypes“. The archetypes the author describes specifically refer to “fantasy sexual scenarios”, but they sound similar to the femme fatale personality archetypes discussed here continue…

Focus on the fashionable

By Bonald

It’s not just a Catholic pious BS thing. The Evangelicals are also guilty. As Mark Tooley writes (h/t P. Blosser)

In recent years there’s been much understandable and laudable Evangelical conversation about expanding Christianity’s reach to attract diverse demographics through creative branding, especially but not exclusively Millennials.

These continue…

Mass Media Distortion about Drowned “Syrian” Boy Aims to Morally Blackmail Europeans into Accepting Nonwhite Invasion

By TNO Staff—

The controlled mass media is deliberately distorting the facts around the drowned “Syrian” boy incident in a blatant attempt to morally blackmail Europeans into accepting the nonwhite invasion of their…

The post Mass Media Distortion about Drowned “Syrian” Boy Aims to Morally Blackmail Europeans into Accepting Nonwhite Invasion appeared continue…

Worship ergo Being

By Kristor

Theology encompasses metaphysics the way that the necessary actuality of God encompasses the mere conception of God as that than which nothing greater may be conceived. Anselm’s Argument is where metaphysics implies the Act that makes metaphysics possible. Only if God exists actually can metaphysics be possible conceptually.

The Moderns who continue…

Scales

By admin

From a widely cited defense of the Black Lives Matter synthetic meme at Reddit:

… societally, we don’t pay as much attention to certain people’s deaths as we do to others. So, currently, we don’t treat all lives as though they matter equally.

Two points:
(1) Some lives (and deaths) do matter continue…

Solipsism I

By Rollo Tomassi

“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today’s warfare, victims. Women are often continue…

Knock Yourself Out

By Malcolm

Something I hear a lot, in the ultra-blue precincts I haunt, is that the Second Amendment is a superannuated relic, an eighteenth-century atavism, and has no place in modern America. I hear mutterings about flintlocks and muskets, and become aware of a prevailing sentiment that the thing simply ought to continue…

Selma 2015: The World Blacks (and their white enablers) Marched Across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Create

By Stuff Black People Don’t Like Remember Selma?

Come on, Selma?

No? You don’t remember Selma?

Selma… right? You remember, don’t you?

Well, here’s a reminder of what happened after the cameras left. [Selma descended into gang violence, crime after Obama’s Bloody Sunday anniversary visit, Al.com, 9-1-15]:
The eyes of the nation were trained on Selma continue…

Ambijectivity and objectivity

By nydwracu

Ambijectivity:

The statement “Mozart’s music is better than Beethoven’s” is usually considered a subjective opinion.

But this statement has the same form as “Mozart’s music is better than the music of the three-year old girl who lives upstairs from me and bangs on her toy piano sometimes.” …

For whatever reasons – continue…

Scalzi 451

By noreply@blogger.com (VD)
Allum Bokhari reports on the cultural war burning up the Kindle Store for Breitbart.
The online culture wars have moved out of comment sections and into Amazon’s Kindle Store.Following the publication of a book by the controversial sci-fi author Vox Day, two parody e-books surged to the top continue…

Mass Immigration To The US Is More Than Mexican Border Jumpers

By CH

When (psychologically healthy, retained survival instinct) White America has nightmares about a demographic tsunami of illegal aliens swamping their electoral prerogative and ruining their cultural, aesthetic, economic, and environmental heritage, Mexicans usually come to mind. But that’s a woefully incomplete picture of the massive and worldwide scale of the immigration continue…

Broken Premisses

By Dalrock

Several of the commenters on Don’t play hard to get argued that Robert Stacey McCain and I aren’t really in disagreement regarding the post that I responded to. While we are in agreement on many points*, there is an important difference in our perspective.

I’ll start with our continue…

Restoring a Virtue-Based Ethics for the 21st Century: Part II

By darreact

The Revival of Teleology: Functions as Selected Effects

Virtue ethics went out of favor when modern philosophy eschewed the teleology upon which it rested (see my “Teleology and the Dark Enlightenment”). But teleology has undergone remarkable comeback in recent decades in philosophy, sparked by the publication of Millikan’s Language, Thought, continue…