The Other McCain

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

‘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, […]

9/11: Never Forget

Thanks to Big Fur Hat  for reminding us of this 70-minute documentary: UPDATE: Joe at Valley of the Shadows reminds us how on 9/11/01, “At 8:46 AM, the world shifted on its axis.” UPDATE II: Statement from Georgia 12th District congressional candidate Ray McKinney: Nine years ago today, I turned on my television while getting […]

VIDEO: John McCain Admits What Everybody Always Knew: He’s a Liar

A genuinely devastating ad from the Hayworth campaign that even Ace of Spades admits is kinda awesome: What did Crazy Cousin John admit lying about? The Confederate flag. That’s something that no one should tolerate, no matter how you feel about the Confederacy.

File No. 100-360217

For those who missed the weekend’s Howard Zinn FBI files story — or who prefer a straight narrative account — my latest column at The American Spectator is “The Case Against Howard Zinn”: Howard Zinn was teaching a class, but he wasn’t yet a professor and his classroom wasn’t at a university. It was late […]

Sudetenland: Are the Czechs Our Friends?

This is the question history professor Thaddeus Russell would have had Britons ask each other in 1938, when Neville Chamberlain sold out the Czechs to Hitler at Munich. Does Israel Make Us Safer? . . . Though many Americans think of Islamic terrorism against the U.S. as part of an inevitable “clash of cultures,” not […]

Charles Johnson Uses Twitter to Push ‘Racist’ Smear of Red State’s Josh Trevino

Joshua Trevino is a Texan, former Bush administration official and Republican political consultant. In 2004, he co-founded Red State along with Ben Domenech and Mike Krempasky. A couple of days ago, Trevino was named among the “Top 25 Conservatives on Twitter.” And it was just about then that Trevino and his colleagues began kicking around a Twitter meme, “I’ve […]

Good Old-Fashioned American Hate!

America used to be a great country. Alas, we don’t make TV commercials like this anymore: Hey, don’t blame me. It’s got nearly 2 million YouTube views. (Hat-tip: Dan Collins via Twitter.) UPDATE: When America was a great country, little girls just wanted to play dress-up and be pretty like Barbie — and nobody thought […]

D-Day: Remembering the Bedford Boys

June 6 is a day of remembrance in the Shenandoah Valley town of Bedford, Virginia, home of the National D-Day Memorial. One of the questions most frequently asked about the Memorial is, “Why Bedford?” You see, there was a local Virginia National Guard unit that was mobilized in February 1941, and the D-Day Memorial site […]

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