The Other McCain

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

Big Gov. Notes The Anniversary Of WWI Declaration Of War Against Germany

by Smitty So we declared war on Germany 94 years ago today. My question to the blogs at large is this: does the fact that we no longer declare any sort of proper war have any impact on the fact that we never get around to peace, either? Discuss. Theo Spark takes you back to […]

New Motherf–g Tone Update: ‘A Sense of Entitlement That Leads to Criminality’ UPDATE: Althouse Cyberstalker Says ‘Forced to Commit Identity Suicide’

UPDATE 10:55 p.m.: The terroristic screed against University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse was posted on a Web account of Madison resident Jim Shankman. In a Facebook status update about 9 p.m. this evening, Shankman wrote: Because of a right-blogosphere campaign to silence me, I have been forced to commit Identity Suicide. I have never supported or […]

Re-Reading Susan Brownmiller
Confronting the Radical Facts of Feminism

“God help us if she ever gets raped — we will be buried under an avalanche of rhetoric.” — James Wolcott, letter to the Village Voice, 1971 Little Miss Attila vowed Monday that she owes me an essay in response to a post I wrote, and she can write a damned book for all I […]

Because I’m Stupid, You See

At what point did youngsters decide that their elders needed history lectures? This is not a moot question, for I find myself being lectured by Conor Friedersdorf: What’s actually gone on in the United States since the year 2000? For almost eight years, the Bush Administration managed to keep the support of its base, despite […]

VIDEO: Ronald Reagan’s 100th

A tribute from Carol at No Sheeples Here:

‘White Nationalist Propaganda’?

Here is the complete text of a news article I wrote that was published Dec. 3, 2002, in The Washington Times: Vanderbilt professor outrages Confederate progeny Says Rebel soldiers deserved gallows By Robert Stacy McCain THE WASHINGTON TIMES A Vanderbilt University professor has stirred outrage in Dixie by declaring that Confederates were “cowards masquerading as […]

Secession Day

Secession Meeting at the Mills House, Charleston, S.C., 1860 On this day in 1860, South Carolina voted to secede from the Union, and this 150th anniversary inspires historian Paul Rahe to publish his endorsement of the “indissoluble union” theory: The legitimacy of secession has been debated ever since. In my view, secession was unlawful. There is […]

‘Most of the Miseries of the World Were Caused by Wars . . .’

” . . and, when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about.” — Ashley Wilkes, Gone With the Wind Captain Wilkes might well have added that, the further wars recede from memory, the more difficult it becomes to explain them to people who only know what they were taught in school. Why, […]

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