Sexual Harassment: Vague, Subjective, Slippery

Under the headline, "In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risque Remarks," NYU journalism professor Katie Roiphe questions "the creative, capricious rubric of sexual harassment:"

The words used in workshops — ‘uncomfortable,’ ‘inappropriate,’ ‘hostile’ — are vague, subjective, slippery. Feminists and liberal pundits say, with some indignation, that they are not talking about dirty jokes or misguided compliments when they talk about sexual harassment, but, in fact, they are: sexual harassment, as they’ve defined it, encompasses a wide and colorful spectrum of behaviors.

[T]he majority of women in the workplace are not tender creatures and are largely adept at dealing with all varieties of uncomfortable or hostile situations. Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or an inappropriate comment about her appearance, and I will show you a rare spotted owl.

Hayward: "Veterans Day: The Defiance of Tyranny"

"Freedom is the defiance of tyranny, not its absence. Let the despots of the world be forever afraid that the hearts of their oppressed people will stir at the sight of the Stars and Stripes," writes John Hayward at Human Events. "The American veteran gave the world victory without conquest, valor without cruelty, and vigilance without domination. History has never seen anything quite like them before, and since the day American soldiers took up arms against their first “unbeatable” enemy, they have never stopped making history..."

Enough already!

Blame Clinton Admin for Economic Collapse

On April 15, 1994, the Clinton Administration codified a 20-page "Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending" that basically told (threatened?) banks to either (a) lend high-risk home mortgages to unqualified applicants in the name of 'fairness', or (b) be branded as 'racist', sued by the Feds for 'discriminatory' lending practices, and denied access to funding from federally-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. So began the housing bubble that 15 years later destroyed the U.S. economy. Reports Investor's Business Daily,

And it's still alive today. Obama is building on the fair-lending infrastructure Clinton put in place.

Surber: That Was Then, This is N.O.W.

Enlightening: Don Surber contrasts what was said by National Organization of Women president Patricia Ireland on April 2, 1998, concerning sexual harassment charges against Bill Clinton, and what NOW is saying today about charges against Herman Cain.

VIDEO: 1% Let's Talk

Peter Schiff, a Wall Street CEO, takes on OWS protesters in this entertaining video:

Why Leadership Matters, Now More than Ever