Douglas Ernst

Newsweek has declared Barack Obama “The first gay president.” Really? How on earth could a straight man, who describes his metamorphosis on the subject of gay marriage as if he was some larval form of insect that needed to pupate, earn such a distinction? Barack Obama, who “evolved” over the course of decades into “the [...]

Note to self: If you want to stir up a bees nest of angry feminists, postulating on the psychological profile of a Planned Parenthood advocate (using public statements readily available to anyone with Internet access), is the way to go. Like the life of the honey badger, future conflict is inevitable. The drones of any [...]

Liberal feminists have a long history of denigrating stay-at-home moms. One could argue that raising children (and raising them right), is quite possibly the most important job there is. And yet, time and time again they act is if all the wonderful technology we have today always existed and that those evil men banished them [...]

It’s Good Friday, and if you’re a Catholic you’re probably sick of people asking why you can’t eat meat. You’re forced to either listen to a bunch of dumb jokes, or take time out of your day to explain it. If you’ve had a tough time articulating why fasting is so important—not just for religious [...]

Atheists flexed their muscles this weekend, with the ‘Reason Rally’ in Washington, D.C. (I guess only atheists use logic and reason). I was going to ignore the subject all together, since most Americans really don’t care what your personal belief or non-belief in God is, but then I ran across Ross Douthat’s piece in the [...]

After having covered Syria’s torture chambers, I thought I might as well cover Africa. I was looking for something cheerful and upbeat, but all I found was court-ordered marriages for rapists and their victims. Who would have thought—it ended badly: A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has committed suicide after a judge ordered her to marry her [...]

What would happen if a U.S. soldier, for some weird reason, was accused of beating an Afghan woman? You know the answer—the place would explode into a screaming, yelling, semi-automatic rifle firing ball of Islamic rage. Yet, oddly enough, Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has opted for “outreach” to the Taliban that touches on (or should [...]

The Sun reports that while destorying Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound, demolition crews found Bibles inscribed with coded terror plots. Pakistan’s intelligence services are now in possession of the religious texts, and if true it’s something that the CIA will want in on. Regardless, coming off the heels of Afghanistan’s Koran-burning riots, such a find [...]

I normally don’t do much for Halloween, but I might have to reconsider and get dolled up as Zombie Mohammad in light of the recent Pennsylvania court case that determined we no longer have First Amendment rights. Here’s the abridged version: Ernie Perce, an atheist, marches in a parade as zombie Mohammad. An Islamic guy [...]

Imagine you’ve found Ayman al-Zawahiri. You’ve located him hiding in a barren, mountainous region of Pakistan. It’s cold. Really cold. You know he has information on an imminent attack on American soil, and you need to extract it fast. You’re short on professional interrogators and help isn’t coming anytime soon, but you do have a [...]