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Gov. Fallin signs law to protect Oklahoma adoption agencies from leftist fascists

UPDATED: Gov. Fallin signed SB1140 on Friday evening, May 11, 2018. The Oklahoma legislature has approved (UPDATE: and Gov. Fallin has signed) a bill, SB1140, protecting the rights of an adoption agency to use its own judgment and principles in finding the best home for a child. That seems like...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 11, 2018 11:07 PM

Australia Day and the black-armband view of history

Two Augusts ago I was in the stands at Brisbane's Exhibition Grounds waiting for the evening performance at the "Ekka" -- Queensland's state fair -- to begin. The crowd stood at attention as a cowgirl on horseback rode around the arena waving a huge Australian flag. The band played and...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 26, 2018 8:39 AM

Lukács, the Frankfurt School, cultural terrorism

As we look ahead to launching another child into higher education, I am thinking that the Ivy League schools have ceased to offer an education worthy of the price tag, much less their long and honorable heritage. Case in point: This center-left Yale student's complaint that his Shakespeare course had...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 28, 2017 11:00 PM

Does fear of leftist bullies skew polls, social media?

As they did in Israel in March, the pollsters misread the sentiments of the British electorate leading to last Thursday's general election. What was supposed to be a dead heat between the Conservative and Labour Parties, with a likely hung parliament and a possible constitutional crisis, turned out to be...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 10, 2015 11:26 PM

"Any society has to privilege some ethical viewpoint"

The headline quote is from the Grauniad*, the left-wing British newspaper, from an editorial pooh-poohing concerns about the marginalization of Christians in the officially Christian United Kingdom. Here's the context (emphasis added): They claim then that it would violate their consciences to do or say certain things which society as...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 23, 2015 10:20 PM