The Other McCain

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

Miraculous You

If you are ever discouraged by failure or the disadvantages you face in life, consider what the odds were against you ever existing: Scientists calculated the probability of your existing as you, today, at about one in 400 trillion . . .  Some factors taken to reach this figure include the chances of your biological parents […]

Media as Islamic Publicity Agents

One of the best books you’ll ever read is Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, and in Chapter 6 (“Crusades of the Anointed”), Sowell observes the tendency of liberals to divide the world into “targets” and “mascots.” For example, the U.S. military and evangelical Christians are common […]

‘This Unfortunate Incident’

If Zachary Kane is a brutal rapist, whose fault is that? This is the central question at the heart of a lawsuit filed against Virginia Wesleyan College (VWC), which is either (a) a small Methodist college in Norfolk or (b) Rapeville, USA. Amid the nationwide furor over claims of a “campus rape epidemic” that allegedly […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty They finished as a study in contrast. He held out an impossibly long B♭ through circular breathing. Her fluid, gravity-mocking ballet ended with a mime’s frozen pose. He was darkness against her light; sound to her silence; a relaxed, seated posture verses her precisely posed angles. Their magical father/daughter routine was performed weekly. […]

In The Mailbox, 08.13.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Why Is Richard Beck Blaming Child Abuse On The Patriarchal Nuclear Family? Thinking Man’s Zombie: Bill Schmalfeldt’s Stolen Valor Michelle Malkin: No Means No – Keep Gitmo Jihadis Out Of America! Twitchy: CLOWN SHOW! Was This Marie Harf’s Reason For The Most Embarrassing White House Iran Deal […]

Feminists, and How to Avoid Them

  Miriam Mogilevsky (@sondosia on Twitter) doesn’t like men, but evidently those sexist oppressors won’t leave her alone: I started to understand my frustrations with my male friends, roommates, and partners much better, because these imbalances have touched every single relationship I’ve ever had with a man. Male partners have consistently ignored glaring issues in […]

Why Aren’t The Granola Heads Freaking Out About Her Majesty’s Thumb Drive?

by Smitty After so many tedious decades of hearing the Church of Environmental Guano Snorting go on and on (and on an on) about the environment, global warming, carbon footprint, and other variations on the theme of pettifoggery, I should like to know where these creeps are concerning the email given to the FBI on […]

The ‘Self-Abnegation of … Gender Identity’

“I’m proud of being trans and queer and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Emily Sommer concludes her decidedly weird column at the feminist blog The-Toast.net, which is chock full of the trendy jargon of feminist “gender theory”: I consider my perspective as a trans woman versus hers as a cis woman. I explain, […]

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