The Republican candidates have been so bad that Ann Coulter has been threatening to support Hillary. Her latest column tears into the worst Republican of all: John McCain.

And my brave little Hillary needs a bold move after the Potomac primaries this week. If she can’t trick Gore into endorsing Obama, she may have to divorce Bill.

Hillary is, shockingly enough, the most conservative candidate among the top three presidential candidates.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell once remarked that his people would rather vote for Beelzebub than Hillary Clinton.

He didn’t mention John McCain.

Pat Buchanan says if McCain is the nominee, the Republican Party will lose its soul. I’m more worried about the Republican Party losing its mind. [AnnCoulter.com - Archived Article: THERE'S A DEMOCRAT BEHIND DOOR NO. 1, 2 AND 3, February 13, 2008]

You can also watch her speech at CPAC, where she says much the same thing.

 After a plot against the life of  one of the cartoonists was discovered, Danish papers reprinted the cartoons of two years ago. And Muslims in Denmark are re-rioting. But look at the the headline on this piece. “Danish” youths, for God’s sake! This is the International Herald Tribune version of a Reuters story, but the headline is the same in many other papers:

Danish youths riot for sixth night - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
Reuters
Saturday, February 16, 2008

COPENHAGEN: Gangs of rioters set fire to cars and garbage trucks in northern Copenhagen on Friday, the sixth night of rioting and vandalism that has spread from the capital to other Danish cities, police said on Saturday.

Five youths were arrested in the capital on Friday after 28 cars and 35 garbage trucks were burned, Copenhagen police duty officer Jakob Kristensen told Reuters.

Danish media said arrests in other towns brought to 29 the number of people police were holding.

Scores of cars and several schools have been vandalised or burned in the past week. Police could give no reason, but said that unusually mild weather and the closure of schools for a winter break might have contributed.

Police arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan descent on Tuesday for planning to kill a cartoonist who drew one of the cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper two years ago that roused a storm of protest in Muslim countries.

Fifteen Danish newspapers reprinted his drawing on Wednesday in protest against the alleged murder plot.

Several hundred Muslims gathered in central Copenhagen on Friday to protest against publication of the cartoon. Most Muslims consider depictions of the founder of Islam offensive.

Social workers said the arrests, the reprinting of the cartoon and protests against its appearance might have fuelled the riots.

Publication of the cartoons two years ago led to protests and rioting in Muslim countries in which at least 50 people were killed and three Danish embassies attacked.

In October police arrested more than 400 people in Copenhagen after demonstrators evicted from a youth centre earlier in the year tried to occupy a new building.

(Reporting by Kim McLaughlin, editing by Tim Pearce)

This is a special category of our “Not Reporting On Race” class of stories, where the body of the story actually contains the relevant information, but the headline is off in outer space.

In this case the relevant information is that it’s not Danish youths full of Carlsberg and akvavit and the traditions of their Viking ancestors who are rioting, but rather immigrant Muslims, are stone cold sober, but inflamed with Muslim religious hatred.But there’s no way to tell that from the headline.

I’ve written before on the new women-only buses in Mexico City: Mexican Men Are Fenced Out… and Mexican Women Are Thrilled.

The Feb 11 piece from the New York Times (On Single-Sex Buses, Relief From Unwanted Contact) is worth your attention in particular for the 3:47-minute video where average Mexican women talk about how unpleasant it is to ride public transportation with lecherous Mexican men.

Transcribed from the video, four women speak…

“It’s hard. They don’t respect you. It doesn’t matter whether you are young, pretty, big, or old. They don’t respect you.”

Woman at a window seat: “So, if you’re sitting like this on this side, men might start putting their, their little instrument on your arm and start rubbing…”

“You don’t even have to have short skirts or cleavage or anything. You just hear those comments all the time and it’s like a common thing. As a woman you get very bad every day.”

“What happens is that women here stay quiet until the few of us who will say something, the men suddenly get scared. So you have to speak. If someone touches you, say something.”

Unsurprisingly, the women are very appreciative that the city has actually done something for their benefit.

One man complains that it’s women’s fault for wearing revealing clothes, but other men readily admit to the extent of the problem. (Again the following quotes are taken from the video, which has far more descriptive speech than the Times’ written article.)

“It’s good because women here are so harassed. Truly, in this society there is no culture of respect for women.”

A shoeshine man says, “We men have an animal instinct that we can’t contol. It’s bad.”

But if appropriate punishment were forthcoming from Mexico City, Mexican men’s powers of self-control would likely experience an upsurge. It’s worth a try.

My big “Value Voters” article summarizing my theory that the affordability of family formation is what drove states to vote Republican or Democrat in both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections, the famous Red State -Blue State gap, is now online at The American Conservative. Readers who have been with me since 2004-2005 won’t find too much that’s wholly new in it, but the purpose is to summarize years of research that has dribbled out across a dozen articles and blog postings in one smooth-flowing essay.