The Other McCain

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

Perversion for Breakfast

Last week, ABC decided to advertise its primetime soap opera Betrayal during its Good Morning America program, and publicist Rebecca Seitz was shocked that her 8-year-old son was exposed to steamy sex scenes at 8 a.m.: What HELL just ascended into my living room and burned itself into my precious boy’s brain? . . . […]

Diana West Dissed by David Horowitz?

Regular readers will remember the shocking revelation — “‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent?” — from Diana West’s new book, American Betrayal. Now comes disturbing news from Diana that David Horowitz’s FrontPage Magazine has removed a favorable review of her book from that site and replaced it with what […]

In Which the Untalented @AndOHehir Gets Owned by @AceOfSpadesHQ

Some liberal motifs are perennial: When God and Man at Yale was published in 1951, liberals denounced Buckley as a fanatic and worse. One hostile reviewer accused him of “un-Christian arrogance,” while another said that Buckley’s book had “the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night.” From a 2010 Andrew […]

A Dozen Short Points On The Big Picture

by Smitty I’d just like to respond to a variety of my good interlocutors, briefly, on a swath of topics. Social: Life: begins when the information that defines you is available: conception. You own your own greatness, or not. You don’t own the non-greatness of others. Gender: is defined by chromosomes. Become the best male […]

Nora Louise Kuzma, Sydney Leathers: Commodities in a Sexual Marketplace

Traci Lords (a.k.a., Nora Louise Kuzma) at age 17 in 1985 “Traci Lords, who had been hailed as ‘the Meryl Streep of the porn industry,’ was in fact 17-year-old Nora Louise Kuzma. She was first molested at age 10 and later promoted as an ‘adult’ movie actress by her mother’s ex-boyfriend, a California cocaine dealer. […]

And Then, Inexplicably, the Villain Decides to Deliver an Arrogant Lecture …

. . . a lecture just long enough to allow the seemingly doomed underdog hero to reach his 9-mm pistol and blast that son of bitch. Hero says sarcastic tough-guy line. Hero is embraced by vulnerable female lead amid wreckage. Roll credits over pop-music theme. At some point, intelligent people grow up and get tired of seeing […]

Representin’ Ewok and the Signifyin’ Jive

Shocking Thuggery from @AceofSpadesHQ: "Hell, I love a good hoodie." http://t.co/sSYap0ZBpC Another vapor-huffing Ewok hoodlum! #tcot — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 17, 2013 Inside jokes about Ace’s resemblance to the cuddly creatures of The Return of the Jedi are a sort of signification — an advertisement of tribal membership — in the same way […]

Verdict in Florida, Violence in Oakland, Insanity in Media, Ignorance Everywhere

Will the Zimmerman Trial Verdict Spark L.A.-Style Riots? — Philadelphia Magazine, June 25 Marxist protesters in California display posters bearing the logo of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “History interests the radical elite only as it can be used to foment anti-capitalist passions, and they cherry-pick history to fit their own leftist interpretations, so […]

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