The Other McCain

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

Read @JosephCurl: Because Facts Matter

Joe Curl lives out in the horse country of Fauquier County, Virginia. He enjoys golf, and can recite lines from Caddyshack the way I can recite lines from Animal House or Blazing Saddles. Joe has been a newsman his whole life. When I met him in 1997, he was an assistant national editor at the […]

Grabbing the Other End of the Rope

Rush Limbaugh occasionally says, “I don’t need ‘balance.’ I am balance.” That is to say, when all the major institutions of politics, media and culture are dominated by liberalism, the conservative who aims to critique and counterbalance the regnant ethos need not concern himself too much with presenting The Other Side of the Story. As […]

The Science Is Settled: Feminism Is Wrong

Men and women are not the same: By analyzing the MRIs of 949 people aged 8 to 22, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania found that male brains have more connections within each hemisphere, while female brains are more interconnected between hemispheres. . . . By analyzing the subjects’ MRIs using diffusion imaging, the scientists […]

Slaves of the Progressive Cause

Liberals are stupid. We know this. Samuel Johnson knew this, too: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” If you’re smart, you can figure out how to get paid to write. If you’re stupid, you’ll be a liberal journalism intern like Charles Davis: I was 21 years old when I took out […]

Guardian Losing $50 Million a Year?

These numbers are mind-boggling: Guardian News & Media has lost nearly £200m in the past six years as it pursues its ambition of being the “world’s leading liberal voice”. GMG already enjoys advantages over some of its commercial media rivals. Ownership by the Scott Trust means it does not have to answer to shareholders. The […]

Conor Friedersdorf’s Grassy Knoll

Conor Friedersdorf is the Lee Harvey Oswald of journalism — an alienated young man consumed by irrational hatred of his own country. Fortunately, the Secret Service need not worry about Friedersdorf purchasing a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle just now. The focus of his manic obsession is not the current president, but his predecessor. Bush Derangement Syndrome — […]

The Exceptional Jeremy Lott

When I first started writing for The American Spectator, Jeremy Lott was my editor. He has since joined the RealClearPolitics family of sites, but continues to be one of the most lively and versatile writers around. Unlike a lot of conservative journalists, Jeremy has no evident ambition to be regarded as a pundit. His specialty […]

Fall Off The Planet, Cohen

by Smitty Richard Cohen stepped into a pile of ObamaCare on the 11th of November, emphasis mine: Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. […]

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