The Other McCain

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

Family Outing at Antietam Battlefield

President O’Bama celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at the Dubliner in D.C., but the unseasonably warm spring day took our family to Antietam National Battlefield Park, scene of The Battle of Sharpsburg. Reagan, 9, and Emerson, 11, have a laugh at the expense of Yankee Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was ordered to cross Antietam Creek and […]

Obama in 1990: America ‘Mean-Spirited’

While a student at Harvard Law School in 1990, Barack Obama was interviewed by the Associated Press in an article the Illinois Daily Herald headlined, “Harvard student tackles racism at core“: America suffered when the movements of the 1960s dissipated, he said. Those movements succeeded in raising doubts about harmful traditions of sexism and racism, […]

Explosive: Obama’s Mentor Derrick Bell on ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’

John Podhoretz at Commentary on the controversy unleashed by the Breitbart.com video: Michael Powell of the New York Times reflected conventional opinion in liberal media circles when he tweeted: “Derrick Bell, Radical? We’re to pretend our history cleansed? He fought 4 Civil Rights in Mississippi.” It is incumbent on Powell and others, if they want […]

Righteous Indignation Meets The Grand Master

— by Wombat-socho This post is about two very different people who took the same journey at very different times. One of them grew up in poverty, and one in the middle class. One went to a well-known private school with all expenses paid; other other had to scramble to get an appointment to one […]

David Axelrod’s Red Roots: Obama Adviser’s Communist Ties Exposed

The cover story of the March print edition of The American Spectator is not yet online and, if you are not yet a subscriber to the magazine, I urge you to rush out to the nearest Barnes & Noble or wherever else you can buy a copy, because it’s definitely worth the $5.95 newstand price. […]

Presidential Paternity

If you want your son to grow up to be president, either: A. Establish a powerful political dynasty; or B. Abandon your kid’s teenage mother and die drunk. That’s what Michael Medved explains in the Wall Street Journal today. The odds are against any of my kids making it to the White House, obviously. My […]

Joe Nocera On ‘The Big Lie’

by Smitty Joe Nocera in the Grey, Undead Lady: So this is how the Big Lie works. You begin with a hypothesis that has a certain surface plausibility. Postmodernism is the ultimate lie, beginning with the notion that there is no Truth. In responding to any modern accusation of deploying a ‘Big Lie’, one should […]

Reading ‘Trotsky’

For the past few days, my bedtime reading has been Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography. It is my boast that I’ve read more Marx than most Marxists and, as an amateur student of Communism, I’ve long been fascinated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was an early comrade of Lenin, but spent more than a dozen years […]

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