HEATHER MACDONALD strikes again.... It is amazing that a guy like me who stays away from feminsts like they were disease on the hoof would continually tell you that the two best reporters on the planet are women; Heather MacDonald and Claudia Rosset. Period. No contest. No Pulitzer but who cares? The Pulitzer is an award that more and more resembles a Left Wing stamp of conformity and establishment approval than an award for hard nosed reporting. Heather has a "must read must think" article about race over at City Journal. A taste

To fight the entitlement mentality, Williams runs Christamore House, his community agency, with a radical twist: it doesn’t hook people up to welfare. “There are no excuses here. I have no checks to give out. Our thing is: get a job. I don’t use the term, ‘McDonald’s job.’ Five dollars is better than zero. That’s better than you coming here and asking me for a handout.”

And then there is this:

Would more youth programs help foster traditional values in kids? I ask. Not a chance, at least without accountability. “We spent $7 trillion on poverty and lost that war a long time ago,” he says. “I don’t have no silver-bullet program,” he adds with typical realism.

And if you think Conservatives come off looking good? They only look good in comparison to Communists and Race Hustlers. A terrific and thought---remember that?---provoking article.