The Other McCain

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

James Fallows, Eminent Fool, and the Surprising Vindication of John C. Calhoun

“The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through […]

Liberals Use Counter-Factual Arguments to Defend Academic Anti-Gun Mania

University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis Glenn Reynolds notices a Salon columnist falsely accusing him of trying to get Erik Loomis fired over last year’s Newtown controversy. Whether or not Loomis should have been fired, the fact that he made his unhinged comments while an untenured assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island […]

The Left Suppresses Its Own History

Lee Stranahan has an excellent article about how the Left has attempted to hide the truth about its own ideological history, so that anyone who uses the phrase “Cultural Marxism” to describe the crucial influence of the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, et al.) is accused of being a “conspiracy theorist” or worst: The […]

COLLEGE COMMIES AT C.U.N.Y.!

Where’s Joe McCarthy when we really need him? Protests against General David Petraeus Monday by CUNY students were organized by an ad hoc committee that includes several Communist groups. A leaflet for the protests, which refers to Petraeus as a “war criminal” and “mass murderer,” says that the events were organized by the Ad Hoc Committee Against the […]

The Urge to Purge: Strange Events Inspired by Diana West Controversy

Diana West, interviewed by The Blaze, July 17 In case you missed it, we have been intermittently following the controversy surrounding Diana West’s new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character: June 6: ‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent? Aug. 8: Diana West Dissed by David Horowitz? Aug. […]

OK, So This Happened: ‘Male Feminist’ Hugo Schwyzer Is a Psychotic Pervert

“I was pulled away from the computer by the police because someone had called me in as potentially suicidal. . . . “I am periodically suicidal. I have been hospitalized three times in the past month. . . . “Before 1998 I slept with two dozen female students, somewhere in there, it’s a ballpark thing. […]

Why Does Lesbian @SaraAlcid Want to Help More Women Kill Their Babies?

It isn’t every day that a “Queer Feminist” with a diploma from Bryn Mawr (undergraduate tuition $42,870 a year) decides she needs my attention, but I’m so grateful for Miss Alcid’s encouragement to expand on what I said this morning: “Professor Aptheker is exactly right: If you want to be a true feminist, you must […]

Taking Feminism Seriously

  In 2009, we began National Offend a Feminist Month, which always ends on Mother’s Day (because feminism is about killing babies, that’s why) and which is generally celebrated with cheerful good humor, mocking the hateful humorlessness of distaff Marxism. The jokes are fun, but this doesn’t mean that feminism is not a deadly menace […]

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