The Other McCain

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

The Fate of Basseley Nakoula

Whatever happened to Nakoula, whose video didn’t really inspire the ‘demonstration’ that didn’t actually happen in Benghazi? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 @rsmccain Nakoula is in La Tuna Federal prison in West Texas bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFi… Scheduled for release on 9/26/13 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) May 13, 2013 “Hillary’s promise of vengeance to the […]

My Wife Is a Soldier’s Mom

Army son will be up at 4 a.m. Number 15 in his “chalk” at Airborne school — first man out of his plane in Monday’s first jump. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 Today was Mother’s Day, and I realized I never got around to posting the photos of my Army son’s graduation […]

No, You’re Not a Feminist

Two years ago, I got in a long argument with my friend Little Miss Attila about feminism, specifically her claim that there is such a thing as “conservative feminism,” which I countered by citing the history of modern feminism from Betty Friedan to Susan Brownmiller as demonstrating that feminism always was a movement of the […]

A Short Lesson in Liberal Media Bias: Has Alex Koppelman Forgotten Fitzmas?

Alternate Headline: It’s Not a Real Scandal, Until @alexkoppelman Decides ‘There Is Something to It.’ newyorker.com/online/blogs/n… | @jeffgurner — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 12, 2013 Scandals always highlight the disparity in how differently the media treat Republicans and Democrats. We are grateful to Alex Koppelman for this latest example: It’s a cliché, of course, but […]

As a ‘Christofascist Godbag,’ I Need Some Civility Lessons From Melissa McEwan

Let me begin this response to Melissa McEwan by citing Ann Coulter, not because she is a woman — certainly not one of those “liberal women constantly talking about their vaginas suddenly pretending to be offended by the word ‘slut’” — but because Coulter dared to tell the truth about Max Cleland’s Vietnam war injuries. […]

Has Somebody Told @Jack Dorsey That Twitter Was Invented by Ed Markey?

#InventedByEdMarkey YouTube (and we thank you: youtu.be/sFYqErvyLC8) — Bill Murphy (@billmurphy) May 10, 2013 “Breaking down those monopolies in the 1996 Telecommunications Act unleashed $1 trillion worth of private-sector capital that has created thousands of jobs — yes, you know the names, Google and eBay and Amazon and Hulu and YouTube and Facebook and Twitter […]

The Big Benghazi Lie: State Department Deleted Key Facts From Talking Points

Jonathan Karl of ABC News reports that an entire paragraph of the CIA’s original assessment of the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was deleted after political objections were raised by a State Department official. The deleted paragraph — which referenced prior CIA warnings about terrorist attacks in Libya — was one of numerous […]

Teaching Your Kids to Hate You

Donald Douglas calls attention to an interesting argument by Bruce Thornton about the “trickle-down” of leftism in education: We often focus on the ideological biases of the university, where the more lunatic examples of political correctness get the most attention. But in education as in economics, there is a trickle-down effect. The grandees at the […]

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