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If you’ve never watched this, it takes less than two minutes, and it’s a nice piece of framework: In her much-discussed essay a few months ago, Helen Andrews argued that American institutions have been feminized. Talking about tendencies and averages — “feminine patterns of behavior” — rather than all men and all women, Andrews argued that a transition from masculine control to feminine control produces radical changes in our shared culture:Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition….Female group dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. Men order...

Student records teacher screaming at class over Renee Good incident!

What was Renee Nicole Good thinking when her girlfriend yelled, “Drive baby, drive” and grinning she drove her 4,000 lb Honda Pilot SUV at an armed federal law enforcement officer? Her last thoughts were likely of her imaginary white privilege and why it failed to protect her. Good had supported BLM and had inhaled its mythology of ‘the talk’, the idea that law enforcement is a racist institution, that police started out as ‘slave catchers’ and that they exist to persecute black people while giving white people a pass. This would have come as a surprise to the over 2,000...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced late Saturday night that in addition to the National Guardsmen — who were being deployed to restore order in Los Angeles — he was placing active duty U.S. Marines at nearby Camp Pendleton on high alert. Hegseth’s announcement, made via a post on X, came just hours after it was reported that President Donald Trump was invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 in order to deploy a number of National Guard troops as protesters clashed violently with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the Los Angeles area. “The violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal...

California Democratic Party operative Bob Mulholland reversed himself Monday night and apologized to GOP gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger for saying he'd have to fight off "real bullets" during the campaign. "I should not have used Hollywood words," Mulholland told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "And I apologize for that." Mulholland insisted that he merely meant that California Democrats have real differences with Schwarzenegger on the issues when he told ABC News on Sunday, "Schwarzenegger's going to find out that, unlike the Hollywood movie set, the bullets coming at him in this campaign are going to be real bullets...