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Paul Jackson is distracted but steamrollers one out. Mike Adams is looking, well, backforward.

In our Columnist section today….

Paul Jackson is passing through L.A. this week—in fact he wrote this, “Steamroller ride”, at the airport. 

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I’m sitting in the airport Route 66 Roadside Bar here, waiting for my Air Canada flight back to Canada, clutching a copy of William F. Buckley’s National Review magazine, and surreptitiously eyeing the pretty waitress with the rather charming decolletage.

OK, OK—but I have to kill far too much time in airport bars, and so long as I don’t make an actual pass at the waitresses, what’s the problem?

When I start taking sly looks at the male bartenders, that’s the time to worry.

Now, I always carry a copy of National Review along because it prevents Liberals from trying to strike up boring conversations.

The Lib-Left set are a bit daunted by Buckley, his crew of writers, and their adherents.

They know instinctively their own weak arguments will collapse with soul-destroying suddenness when faced with volleys of intellectual conservatism. […]

Meanwhile, Mike Adams takes us on a ride through his mind.  Kind of.  This one is impossible to explain succinctly so I better not.  Just read it.  Here’s a snippet of “Did you hear the one about the Polish gay guy?”:

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[…] I thought it would be best if affirmative action programs, either for hiring or admissions, were available only to women, gays, and non-whites. Additional spots could also be awarded to people from foreign countries, as long as they spoke a foreign language.

But, under my plan, once you demonstrated minority status, your work was only beginning. For example, you had to provide documentation of specific victimization experiences in order to get a significant number of points added to your SAT or GPA. I thought the extra work was well worth it, since, as a dark-skinned, long-term lesbian, I had had it so rough for so long. I also thought it was just. Light-skinned blacks who only recently came out of the closet deserved next to nothing, in my book. […]

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