The Other McCain

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

Segregation Is the New Diversity

Tuition at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., is $45,620 a year, and the school employs Amit Taneja as Director, Diversity & Inclusion. Taneja is head of Hamilton’s Days-Massolo Center, which “was created to foster dialogue and understanding within and across differences. The Days-Massolo Center is home to Hamilton’s Womyn’s Center and the newly established LGBTQ […]

William Bratton, ‘Broken Windows’ and the Importance of Public Order

While writing about the Matthew Shepard case, I mentioned how a crackdown on fare-beaters in the New York City subway system turned up a number of criminals wanted on warrants for serious crime. Someone on Twitter asked for more information about this, so I found this article at City Journal featuring William Bratton, the police […]

The Sorelian Myth of Matthew Shepard: Petty Criminals and Liberal Media Bias

Matthew Shepard’s killers Russell Henderson (left) and Aaron McKinney (right). When I was a freshman in college, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was an assigned reading and one of the lessons of the book — perhaps not a lesson the author intended, but one I’ve since seen replicated over and over — is how notorious […]

Kenya Massacre: Still No Confirmation of ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite

Fake passport identifies Samantha Lewthwaite as ‘Natalie Faye Webb.’ Since Monday, we have awaited official confirmation of press reports that Britain’s notorious “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite was among the Muslim terrorists who perpetrated the massacre at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. There is still no such confirmation, but the speculation has become so […]

The Vagina as Commodity: What Does the Pubic Depilation Phenomenon Mean?

“This particular cosmetic trend — I’ve dubbed it the Deforestation of the Pubic Delta — is really a byproduct of the pornification of culture. In the same way, trends like breast augmentation, body piercing and tattoos for women have been mainstreamed by the pervasive porn aesthetic. “When you turn sex into a commodity, the marketing […]

Ted Cruz Goes All Night; Vendors of Conventional Wisdom Say This Is Bad

Readers may have noticed that I have been ignoring the ObamaCare “Don’t Fund It” dramatics, along with the “government shutdown” threat and the punditry gabfest that have accompanied it. Depending on who you listen to, either Ted Cruz is the future of the Republican Party or else Ted Cruz is the harbinger of the final […]

Woman Lawyer Offers Helpful Career Advice, Gets Slammed by Feminist

Vanessa James is a British lawyer who wrote a column for the Guardian newspaper with the headline, “Formal complaints over sexism should be last resort for women,” which included this: The point is that everyone has boundaries and communicating these to colleagues through behaviour is key to avoiding unnecessary offence. It is also important to […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.25.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Senator Ted Cruz Filibusters Obamacare Funding Texas senator’s tactic seen as quixotic HHS Report Claims Obamacare Premiums “Less Than Expected” In 36 States Non-government analysts disagree Kenyans Mourn As Mall Siege Ends With 61 Dead Five Al-Shabaab jihadis dead, 11 captured POLITICS Inhofe Says UN Gun Treaty Already “Dead […]

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