The Other McCain

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

Murder City, U.S.A.: Chicago Has More Murders Than L.A. and N.Y.C. Combined

The Associated Press: Malik Causey was one of 91 homicide victims in Chicago in August, the deadliest month in the city in two decades and the latest milestone for a metropolis becoming known for its murder rate. Already, killings here have jumped 46 percent over the same period last year, climbing past the 500 mark […]

Blame the Patriarchy!

The core myth of feminism is that women — yes, all women — are victims of oppression under patriarchy, an unjust and tyrannical system in which all men participate and from which all men benefit. This claim of patriarchal oppression is used to justify the anti-male agenda of feminists who insist that every male is to blame for […]

Campus Insanity: Why Does Claremont Need a ‘Queer Resource Center’?

  In a review of protests last year on the campus of the Claremont Colleges (which include Scripps, Pomona, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna), I was intrigued by something in this story: “We need to be less afraid of being called racists, classists, and ableists, and more afraid of actually being those things,” lamented […]

Miss Universe’s Reality TV Sex Scandal

Hillary Clinton’s reference to Alicia Machado in Monday’s debate (“No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds”) drew attention to the Venezuelan beauty queen’s sordid past, e.g., the time she wrecked her engagement to a baseball star by having sex with another man on a reality TV show: In a now infamous 2005 episode of ‘La […]

No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds

  It should not be necessary to explain why a beauty queen is obliged to maintain her physique at or near her pageant-winning form during her yearlong tenure as the reigning Miss Whatever. She wins a local beauty contest, which qualifies her to compete at higher levels, on up to a national title and, perhaps, […]

Ask @HannahSmothers_: Is Cosmo Now a Lesbian Feminist Magazine?

As LGBTQ Culture Becomes More Mainstream, Queer Women Struggle to Find a Place of Their Own That’s the headline on an article published last month by Cosmopolitan magazine’s “sex and relationships editor,” Hannah Smothers. The Cosmo website features so much “LGBTQ” content nowadays that one wonders if the magazine has been taken over by lesbian […]

No, Donald Trump Won the Debate

  Liberals are calling Monday night’s debate a win for Hillary Clinton, as might be expected, and even producing snap polls claiming to support this claim as a fact, as might also be expected, I guess. However, the reality is that Donald Trump did not lose the debate, and thereby won. What was Trump’s basic […]

Not the Droids You’re Looking For

Move along: The Turkish immigrant accused of gunning down five people at a Washington mall smirked at his first court appearance Monday even as reports revealed he had a blog with photo posts of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. . . . Authorities said they have not ruled out […]

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