The Other McCain

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

La Belle Dame sans Merci

  The title of a once-famous Keats poem came to mind when I saw this headline at Memeorandum: Stanford sexual assault: judge facing recall campaign over light sentence The victim of a sexual assault by a former Stanford University swimmer said on Monday she was “overwhelmed and speechless” at the deluge of support for her […]

In The Mailbox: 06.09.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Louder With Crowder: Liberals Sign Petition For Increasingly Absurd, “Free” Human Rights Proof Positive: For Democrats Are Dark and Full of Error EBL: The Lesson Of Venezuela And Socialism – It Doesn’t Work Twitchy: This Tweet About Martin O’Malley’s Hillary Endorsement Is Just Plain Sad RIPPED FROM THE […]

Feminist Fantasies

Several years ago — I could look it up — I interview Phyllis Schlafly about her book Feminist Fantasies. Mrs. Schlafly, in many ways one the most influential American woman of the 20th century, laughed about how “tough” feminists sometimes claim to be. Certainly few of them had the steely strength of Mrs. Schlafly who, […]

In The Mailbox: 06.08.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Proof Positive: Red Hillary EBL: #CrookedHillary – Wrong Eight Years Ago And Wrong Today Michelle Malkin: Measuring Life By The Spoonful Twitchy: Priorities! Guess What The President Whose Job Is “Not Entertainment” Is Doing In NYC Today RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: Trump Promises New Attacks On […]

‘Four Legs Good! Two Legs Bad!’

  “Some animals are more equal than others,” as everyone learns at the end of Animal Farm, but what would George Orwell say about this? A lecturers’ union [in England] is refusing to let its officers take part in debates at an equality summit if they are white, straight, able-bodied men. The equality conference of […]

In The Mailbox: 06.07.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Why The Brackets On Twitter Names? Michelle Malkin: North Carolina Subsidizes American Worker Sabotage Twitchy: Guess What Happened When Dana Loesch Challenged “Under The Gun” Director To Debate RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: Sanders Leads Among Eligible Voters In California American Thinker: Trump and the Judge […]

‘Anatomy of Rage’: @mstiefvater and the Feminist Injustice Collector Phenomenon

Maggie Stiefvater (@mstiefvater on Twitter) is a successful novelist, married with two kids, living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In April 2015, she posted a Tumblr essay, “The Anatomy of Rage,” that begins with an incident in which a mechanic uses the phrase “little girl” while telling her husband that he’s going to fix […]

In The Mailbox: 06.06.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: #ReadyForCthulhu? Da Tech Guy: The Missing Argument From This Esquire “No Violence” Piece Proof Positive: Michelle Obama Totes Dat Barge, Lifts Dat Bale Michelle Malkin: Finally, These H-1B Fraudsters Are Going To Jail Twitchy: Hillary’s D-Day Tweet Disgraceful On Multiple Levels RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: […]

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