The Other McCain

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

If These United States Are Exceptional. . .

by Smitty There is a looming domestic test of American exceptionalism. Case in point, the Commerce Department: . . .how Commerce got to that 1.5 percent number is truly amazing. Of the 1.5 percent, 0.45 of a percentage point came from increased health care spending. In other words, mandatory ObamaCare payments caused about one-third of […]

The Queering of Feminism: Why Does ‘Equality’ Require Promoting Perversion?

  Boston University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program “fosters interdisciplinary research and teaching related to the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and other categories of identity that organize and disorganize our lives.” The director of the program, Associate Professor Carrie Preston, describes her “research and teaching interests include modernist literature, performance, and dance, […]

‘Medical’ Marijuana: There Must Be an Epidemic of Glaucoma in the ‘Hood

Want to read something laugh-out-loud funny? This woman’s account of a guy who bummed a ride home after her local college class is worth a read if you enjoy, uh, authentic urban dialect. The highlight of the story — which occurs in Los Angeles, we can gather — is a visit to a legal “medical […]

Santorum Says Immigration ‘Flooding This Country’ With Low-Wage Workers

Allan Wall calls attention to an exchange in Wednesday’s “undercard” debate in which Rick Santorum discussed the economic impact of immigration on America’s working class: [W]e have the lowest labor participation rate in 50 years and we also have the slowest growth in wages in the history of our country, any 20-year period. In fact, the […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty One last dip in the road separated Korban and his troops from Korbill Tower, highlighted by the moon on the hill. They were far enough up a side valley from River Myzods that the rolling countryside was untouched by disaster. As they passed a copse on the right side of the road, a […]

‘Rape Culture’ Rhetoric as Bad Poetry

Alleged poet Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur_) Just when you think feminism cannot possibly become more absurd, they always manage to push beyond the limits of imagination. sex takes the consent of two if one person is lying there not doing anything cause they are not ready or not in the mood or simply don’t want to […]

In The Mailbox: 10.29.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Proof Positive: Waiting For The Donald EBL: CNBC Debate Michelle Malkin: A Closetful Of Hillary Clinton’s Immigration Costumes Twitchy: Haven’t Had Enough Of John Harwood’s Bias, You Say? RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: Far-Left CNBC Moderators Lose Control Of Third GOP Debate American Thinker: Thirteen Reasons We […]

Rubio Knocks Out Jeb Bush in Debate

  The general consensus, and also my own personal opinion, is that Marco Rubio was the big winner of Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate on CNBC. Polls have shown Rubio stuck in the second tier behind the two “outsider” candidates who are the current front-runners, Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Rubio is young, smart and articulate, […]

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