The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.12.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Al-Qaeda Takes Tikrit, Thousands Flee US stands ready to assist, Cameron rules out UK intervention Cantor To Quit As Majority Leader At End Of July Supports Majority Whip McCarthy as his successor Bowe Bergdahl, Coast Guard Washout? What was he doing in the Army? POLITICS Polarization Dividing American Society, […]

Al-Qaeda Takes Tikrit?

When Donald Douglas told me this news, I was stunned. Iraq is falling apart and the terrorists are taking over: BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida-inspired militants pushed deeper into Iraq’s Sunni heartland Wednesday, swiftly conquering Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts and yielded ground once controlled by U.S. forces. […]

Libertarians Are Hitler or Something

Eric Cantor was the only Republican Jew in Congress, so when he lost a GOP primary to economics professor Dave Brat, the Left instantly created a narrative that this represented some kind of neo-Nazi tendency of Brat’s libertarian-leaning Tea Party supporters. There are a few obvious problems with this claim, of course: Libertarianism is the […]

‘Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But George Will’s Column Raped Me’

Peter Paul Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618) “Feminism is, among other things, a totalitarian attempt to tell us what to think by controlling what we are allowed to say.” — Robert Stacy McCain, May 4 Who is turning rape into a joke? Feminists, by their counterfactual insistence that American university campuses are […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.11.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Majority Leader Eric Cantor Crushed By Tea Party Insurgent In Shocking Upset Defeated despite spending $1 million on primary campaign Oregon Shooting Features Gun Controllers Exploiting Tragedy Again Teenage gunman shot himself after killing fellow student Jihadis From Syria Drive Iraqi Army Out Of Mosul PM Al-Maliki declares state […]

Virginia Shocker: Cantor Canned

by Smitty Virginia is for lovers of elections and political gymnastics. Since its 2009 inception, the Tea Party had run an insurgency to force conventions for state-wide elections, which resulted in (what I thought) was a dynamite slate for last November’s elections: Cuccinelli/Jackson/Obenshain. Alas, the GOP elite didn’t seem to care much about this off-year […]

Facts Are the New Hate

The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post column by Brad Wilcox and Robin Wilson which demonstrates — as a matter of social science — what all social scientists already know: Marriage is highly correlated with good outcomes for women and children. This isn’t really controversial, if you have […]

‘The Child Within Me Is Truly Gone … I Hate You, But I Loved You’

Dance teacher Nichol Marie Phelps molested 15-year-old girl. Readers may remember the case of Nichol Marie Phelps, the married 30-year-old dance teacher in Florida who said she would leave her husband for the “hot” 15-year-old student she molested in 2012. Phelps was sentenced to prison last week: Though she’s only 17, the young dancer testified Friday […]

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