The Other McCain

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

‘Epic Fail’: GW University Event Tonight Will Examine Obama’s Policy Failures

Jonah Goldberg of National Review, Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Donald Lambro of the Washington Times will speak at a “Barack Obama Epic Fail Teach-In” at George Washington University tonight at 6 p.m. Among the policy failures to be addressed: 5.8 million people have been searching for work for more than 27 […]

Fake Hate Update: ‘Minority’ Student Confesses to UCSD Noose Hoax

An increasingly familiar type of liberal campus activism: The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation. The noose’s discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged […]

11-Year-Old’s Mom Gets Upset About Middle School’s Online Dating Site

You’ve got to admit this could get kind of creepy: ELWOOD, Ind. – Most parents agree that matchmaking Web sites and surveys are games mainly adults should play, but some say Elwood Community Schools has been getting students in on the action. Parent Michelle Everett says her 11-year-daughter recently brought home a survey from school. […]

News From Southern Appalachia

When Instapundit featured the headline, “Knoxville girl wins regional spelling bee,” I sort of figured the Knoxville girl in question might be named Reynolds. But in fact the winner was Ameena Iqbal, a fifth-grader at Blue Grass Elementary School in West Knoxville, who edged out Nithya Kanagasegar, an eighth-grader at Homestead Elementary School in Crossville. […]

Call it ‘The McCain Plan’

The New York Times reports: Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college. My daughter was home-schooled through 9th grade, entered a Christian academy as a 14-year-old […]

Killer Socialist Professor Update

Harvard-educated murderer Amy Bishop displayed her enlightened, sophisticated academic temperament: In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother. Bishop, according to a police report, strode over to […]

Reinhold Neibuhr Was a Subversive Pinko (and Other Conservative Insights)

One of the more amusing tendencies of certain “conservative intellectuals” — the scare-quotes are necessaary, if you know the type of people I have in mind — is their habit of name-checking famous (dead) conservatives in pursuit of arguments about the unworthiness of famous (living) conservatives. Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter will say something that […]

‘Almost Never’ Is Once Too Often

“Certainly, there are lots of socialists on college faculties across the land. Happily, they almost never engage in killing sprees.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway UPDATE: The plot thickens: The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of […]

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