The Other McCain

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

VP Pence Casts Historic Vote to Confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education

The New York Times: The Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos on Tuesday as education secretary, approving the embattled nominee only with the help of a historic tiebreaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence. The 51-to-50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice […]

Campus Losers Resort to Political Violence

J.D. Tucille writes at Reason magazine: Last week, anti-fascist protesters showed up in Berkeley, California, to courageously battle the Nazi supporters of alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos. Soon after, they likewise put it all on the line to tussle with the right-wing mob supporting radical demagogue Gavin McInnes. Well, that’s how they imagine it in their […]

Ivy League in Crisis: Student Suicide Epidemic at Columbia University

Death by elite education: A disturbing wave of seven suicides and likely drug overdoses has swept through Columbia University so far this school year — and students say fiercely competitive academics and inadequate campus counseling programs are in large part to blame. The student deaths include three in January alone — two of whom police […]

Screaming NYU Protester Woman Identified as Anti-Trump Porn ‘Artist’

  The highlight of Thursday’s protest against Gavin McInnes’s appearance at New York University was a woman who screeched at the police: Who’s protecting NYU from this bulls**t? Why are you here? You’re not here to protect these students from Nazis. No, you’re not! This is completely f***ed up. And these students had to f***ing […]

The Campus Special Snowflake™ Blizzard

We must protect their sensitive feelings: A statue of Christopher Columbus will be removed from the campus of Pepperdine University because about two dozen students protested that the status is “a celebration of genocide and racial oppression.” The statue was originally donated to the school in 1992 — the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage of discovery […]

‘The Idea That People Are Going to Debate Their Ideas Is Outrageous’

  Thursday night, there was a near-riot at New York University when self-declared “anti-fascists” disrupted an event with Gavin McInnes hosted by the College Republicans. Although it was not as violent as the riot Wednesday in Berkeley that shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’s speech, the NYU event highlighted just how extreme the Left has become. First, […]

How Feminism Caused the #Berkeley Riot: Understanding Leftist Psychology

  This morning I had planned to follow-up on Wednesday’s riot in Berkeley, but today Grandpa McCain was babysitting both his grandsons, which made blogging impossible. Now I’m finally getting around to the follow-up, but I’m exhausted and so I’ll just briefly remind you what I’ve been saying for nearly two years now: Feminism Is […]

VIOLENT BERKELEY MOB RIOT SHUTS DOWN YIANNOPOULOS SPEECH

  BREAKING: A mob of violent Berkeley Democrats tonight attacked the campus venue where Breitbart.com editor Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak, breaking windows, starting fires and hurling explosives, forcing University of California officials to cancel the speech. UPDATE 10:15 p.m. ET: The Los Angeles Times reports: A speech by conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was […]

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