The Other McCain

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

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty “It’s just a flesh wound! Come back here & I’ll bite your leg off!” “Sir, no time for Python. Only by some freak of the geometry that the shockwave left six floors. Obviously no nuke. Maybe a MOAB?” “Yeah, this means that I can quit working on that stupid budget slide deck!” “Look: […]

Post-Thanksgiving After-Action Report

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; He chastens and hastens His will to make known; The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing; Sing praises to His Name, He forgets not His own. Our family sang that ancient hymn — which originated in 16th-century Holland — before we ate the turkey, which was cooked […]

Was the ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Against President Trump a Trans-Atlantic Affair?

  When Steve Bannon and others began speaking of the “Deep State,” many people dismissed this as a paranoid conspiracy theory, without bothering to investigate what this phrase actually signifies. Let me summarize briefly: During the past 25 years or so, since the end of the Cold War, a general consensus about the shape of […]

Thank God for Liberals

  If it weren’t for liberals, we might enjoy our turkey in peace: Around this time every year, coastal media trot out a series of articles “preparing” a very particular set of readers for encounters with opinions unlike their own, which says more about them than the subject of their writing, but anyway… This year […]

In The Mailbox: 11.21.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho No linkagery tomorrow on account of Thanksgiving, which I’ll be spending with friends in Utah. Do people want me to double up on the linkagery for Friday, or should I just do a book post along with the usual linkfest? Let me know in the comments. OVER THE TRANSOM Ninety Miles […]

The Banality of Liberalism

  This photo, showing SS men and female auxiliaries (Helferinnen, “helpers”) is from an album collected during World War II by Karl Hoecker, a top SS officer at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. The photo was taken in 1944 at Solahütte, “a little-known resort for the Nazi German guards, administrators, and auxiliary personnel” […]

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.20.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Is The FBI Joining Forces With Antifa & The SPLC Against The Proud Boys? Twitchy: Joe Scarborough’s Past Just Caught Up With Him, And Boy, Is It Awkward Louder With Crowder: Alexandria Occasional-Cortex Incorrectly Identifies “Three Chambers” Of Government RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES Adam Piggott: A Follow-Up […]

E-Mail to a Liberal Professor

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 9:45 a.m. ET From: Robert McCain ([email protected]) To: Joan C. Williams ([email protected]) Dear Professor Williams: Your article in The Atlantic (“The Democrats’ White-People Problem”) has come to my attention. You make many interesting points, e.g.: “Why not just wait for the white working class to die off?” asked an audience […]

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