The Other McCain

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

Olympic Pussy Riot

Tabloid Headline of the Day: "Whip-wielding Russian Cossacks attack Pussy Riot" http://t.co/ECiVSL4HMi #Olympics #Sochi #Russia — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 19, 2014 Some days, the news is like an acid hallucination or a scene from a science fiction dystopia, and you feel as if you’re a Jeopardy contestant in an alternative-universe: “I’ll take ‘Headlines […]

Second Terror Bombing in Russia

More than 30 people killed in two days: A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. . . […]

Russia: 15 Killed in Suicide Bombing

A female bomber at a train station: More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide female bomber. If confirmed, the presumed attack will prove to have been the […]

Russia Reverting to Totalitarianism?

Kim Zigfeld at American Thinker exposes how Russia’s state-controlled media are misreporting the Ukrainian uprising: With every day that passes, ordinary Russians are more and more cut off from basic facts about the world, just as they were in Soviet times. . . . All of the major broadcast TV networks are state-controlled in Russia, […]

Maybe CUNY Could Hire Vladimir Putin

That student mob harassing David Petraeus would certainly have no problem with being lectured by the Russian president: My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on […]

From Russia, With Hate: Sodomy Lobby Now Dictating U.S. Foreign Policy

Last month, I wrote about Russia’s harsh backlash against gay-rights activism (“Russia Says ‘Nyet’ to Gay Adoptions“), and it turns out that this explains the cancellation of a scheduled summit: The Wall Street Journal, among others, reportsthat President Barack Obama has decided to cancel a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s grant of temporary […]

Are We Paranoid Enough Yet? FEMA’s Russia ‘Protocols’ Raise Serious Questions

Oct. 8, 2012: Russia’s EMERCOM Minister Vladimir Puchkov (left) and U.S. Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness and Protection, Timothy Manning, sign the protocol of a bilateral meeting in Vladivostok, Russia. Have FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security signed a deal that would permit as many as 15,000 Russian troops to be deployed in the […]

Russia Says ‘Nyet’ to Gay Adoptions

Vladimir Putin signed a law yesterday that prevents gay foreigners from adopting Russian children and, in the course of researching a news article about it, I was somewhat surprised: The government says the law aims to protect children from “dictated non-traditional sexual behavior” and cites “psychologists’ research” about stresses it says “are often experienced by children […]

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