A real-life army of heroic women have been fighting the Islamic State spawned by Barack Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq. They’re called the Sun Ladies and their story is so tailor-made for drama it’s hard to believe it’s all true.
The Sun Ladies were Yazidi women who in 2014 saw their husbands slaughtered by the Islamic State in Islam’s usual persecution of religious minorities. After that they were taken as sex slaves by the barbarians of the Islamic State. Many escaped as time wore on and – along with other Yazidi women who then underwent military training – formed a force of roughly 2,000 women, called the Force of the Sun Ladies – a reference to the reverence accorded to the sun in the Yazidi belief system. Continue reading
My feeling that the political left has become a magnet for cowards, hypocrites and the ugliest totalitarians is expressed very frequently here at Balladeer’s Blog. I’ve been sprinkling in literally dozens of people who considered themselves part of the left (like I used to) before liberalism (really “illiberalism”) became the joke that it is now. 
How pathetically delusional and egotistical does someone have to be to actually refer to themselves as an SJW? Only a true joke of a human being would even be able to refer to themselves as a “Social Justice Warrior” (LMAO) without laughing. If I went around calling myself a Heroic Defender of Freedom or HDF, how seriously would you ever take anything else I said for the rest of my life? 
American Liberals have become even more hypersensitive and easily offended than the old stereotype of Christian Conservatives in pop culture. One of the reasons I used to consider myself a Liberal was because when I was younger Liberals were the people who had no taboo subjects and no prim notions about what was “proper” conversational material. 
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