The Other McCain

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

Carry Me Home to See My Kin

An unexpected road trip suddenly looms, as I just got word that my Aunt Joanne (actually a second cousin, but we kids called her “aunt” by courtesy) has died at her home in Montgomery, Alabama. Joanne’s mother was my maternal grandmother’s younger sister, and Joanne was especially close to my mother’s younger sister, Barbara Ellis. […]

The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality

“Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prejudice, and no facts will persuade them: School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen […]

What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like

This was one of those “viral video” stories that I was going to let pass by without comment, until I got the details from Miranda Devine’s column in the New York Post. First of all, you have to know that this incident took place at “the upscale Clarke Cooke House,” which just happens to be […]

Why Has She Never Met a Good Man?

Here is the transcript of her video rant: “I’ve never once met a good man — my entire life, going on almost 32 years, OK? I’ve never met one genuinely good man. Every single man I have encountered has done something absolutely horrific and minimized it. Every single man that I’ve encountered is a liar, […]

FBI Raids John Bolton: Why?

The big news today raises some intriguing questions. While we must assume that there is legal justification for the FBI’s raid on John Bolton — probable cause to suspect him of illegal activity — the same could be said of dozens of others whose names might be on Donald Trump’s enemies list. That is to […]

This Day in American History

Before we discuss what it means — this date marking a crucial anniversary — let us first recount the relevant facts: On or about August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. . . . Founded at Jamestown […]

Peer Pressure and Morality: Or, Why Do ‘Girls Go Wild’ in Daytona Beach?

From the headline, you might have expected me to illustrate this post with a picture of college girls twerking in their bikinis on Spring Break in Florida, so why did I choose John Stuart Mill instead? In his most famous work, On Liberty, Mill famously described “the tyranny of the majority,” by which he meant […]

After Alaska Summit Meeting, Putin Confirms Ukraine War Was Biden’s Fault

We all knew this, of course, and Trump has been saying it for three years, but now we have it directly from Vladimir Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the war between Russia and Ukraine would never have begun if President Donald Trump were president in 2022 instead of then-President Joe Biden. Putin’s […]

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