The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Texas Democrat Student Group Leader Exposed as Convicted Sex Offender

Convicted sex offender Billy Johnson A convicted sex offender is the leader of a Democrat student group at a Texas university, Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports. Billy Johnson, who is president of the Young Democrats chapter at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) campus in Edinburg, Texas, was convicted in 2003 of “indecency” with […]

Miley Cyrus: Insult to Injury

Alessandra gets angry about Miley Cyrus trying to use complaints about a “double standard” to defend her decadent behavior: What few people have analyzed is how much liberals have normalized the worst of sexism in the name of liberation (sexual or for women). It’s exactly analogous to their claim that they are “liberating” homosexuals when […]

The Homeless: A Criminal Menace

A 21-year-old woman was seriously injured Wednesday in White Plains, N.Y., when a homeless man who had been panhandling at the train station pushed her in front of a commuter train: The suspect — Howard J. Mickens, 39, who lives in a White Plains shelter — was charged with second-degree attempted homicide, police told 1010 […]

Great SF Authors That Go Well Together

— by Wombat-socho Joe The Fat Man recommended Point Apocalypse in the comments last week, and Richard McEnroe likewise put in a good word for The Futurians by Damon Knight, The Way the Future Was by Fred Pohl, and Dream Makers by Charles Platt. There’s also Dream Makers, Vol. 2 if you can’t get enough […]

News Flash: Crazy People Are Dangerous

This isn’t really surprising, is it? The man who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard 10 days ago left behind electronic documents saying that the government had been attacking his brain for the past three months using “extremely low frequency” electromagnetic waves created by the Navy . . . The documents provide the […]

The Secret Sell-Out of ‘Pro-Sex Feminism’

Yesterday’s mention of pornography’s influence (“The Vagina as Commodity: What Does the Pubic Depilation Phenomenon Mean?“) stirred the memory of one reader, who e-mailed: That got me to thinking about the relation between feminism and porn. Back around the 1980s or so, there was an important strand of feminism which was vocally and unashamedly anti-porn. […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.26.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS House GOP Considers Shutdown Options Pressure building on Tea Party Caucus to cave Iran’s Rouhani Denounces Holocaust At UN, Ignites Controversy CNN says he did, Iranian news agency blames translation error Chicom General’s Son Gets Ten Years For Gang Rape Party cracking down on elite childrens’ rowdiness POLITICS Cory […]

Ken Cuccinelli Wins Virginia Debate

Speaking ex-officio in my role as The Decider, I declare Republican Ken Cuccinelli the winner of tonight’s gubernatorial debate in Fairfax. The main reason, of course, is that Cuccinelli is totally awesome, but there’s also the important fact that Terry McAuliffe sucks: McAuliffe has proposed all kinds of new spending, but can’t say how he […]

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