The Other McCain

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

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 […]

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 […]

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