The Other McCain

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

Marshall University Journalism Professor Expresses Violent Fantasies Against NRA

Professor Christopher Swindell rants in February 2011 YouTube video America’s university faculty lounges harbor totalitarians, and Christopher Swindell, Ph.D., is a campus commissar of communications at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. His field of expertise apparently includes Hating Right-Wingers 101: Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was […]

In Search of Liberal ‘Principle,’ and Also: Does #FreeKate Have a Larger Agenda?

‘Free Kate’ petition at 501(c)3 Purpose Foundation’s site, AllOut.org Liberalism: “My miserable life is fucked up. It’s unfair that your life isn’t fucked up, too.” twitter.com/Jeanette_Runyo… | @jeanette_runyon — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 26, 2013 Arguing with liberals is nearly always a waste of time, and I seldom bother, as there are usually more […]

Cultural Survival Instinct

The counter-jihad blogger known as Fjordman has an essay up at David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine about the situation in Norway. Norway’s immigrant population is small compared to that in the United States, but the problems arising seem much worse: In May 2011 [Labour Party activist Eskil Pedersen] pressed criminal charges against a Member of Parliament, Christian […]

Teaching Your Kids to Hate You

Donald Douglas calls attention to an interesting argument by Bruce Thornton about the “trickle-down” of leftism in education: We often focus on the ideological biases of the university, where the more lunatic examples of political correctness get the most attention. But in education as in economics, there is a trickle-down effect. The grandees at the […]

Why I’m Not on the Harvard Faculty

Besides the fact that all I’ve got is a bachelor’s degree from a third-tier state university, there’s also the problem that I don’t think it’s necessary to apologize for saying bad things about dead bisexual British economists, which is now apparently taboo. You can badmouth dead people or defame the British or libel an economist […]

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up

Flaming skull alert at Ace of Spades for the release of e-mails confirming that (a) officials knew from the outset that the attack on the consulate in Libya was the work of terrorists, but (b) this information was suppressed for political purposes: State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, worried that members of Congress would use the […]

The Left Hates Howard Kurtz, Which Doesn’t Mean We Should Love Him, But …

@tobyharnden @howardkurtz I agree.This defenestration feels like it’s about something else.#mobbing — Instapundit.com (@instapundit) May 3, 2013 “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.” — Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance,” 1965 The Internet never forgets, and I’m sure someone (probably Ed Driscoll) will unearth the […]

Liberal Media Bias and Self-Selection

C’mon, @aceofspadeshq: “Something Faranze-Gupta or whatever”?@thegarance is no Max Blumenwhatever! minx.cc/?post=339613 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 1, 2013 Some years ago — when our daughter, now 23, was in kindergarten, to be specific — I gave up on the public school system. It’s doomed beyond all hope of redemption, and conservatives who think otherwise are […]

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