The Other McCain

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

Interracial Marriage Rate Increase Meets Resistance

by Smitty The news that interracial marriage rates are increasing seems like a good thing. Family history and ethnic heritage, while excellent and worthy of all preservation, needs to be balanced with the fact that we’re all Americans and bleed one color when defending our Constitution. The news that the lines are blurring was met […]

Popular Children’s Book Condemned in Belgium for — Wait for It — Raaaaacism!

A new lesson in the bizarre nature of Europe’s “human rights” laws: Belgium’s courts are investigating whether Tintin’s 1931 Congolese adventures, when the country was a Belgian colony, portrays black Africans in a racist way . . . Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, a Brussels-based Congolese man, has spent the last three years pursuing Tintin’s copyright holders […]

No ‘Horse’ Jokes, Please: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts Cheap Condoms

Because some stereotypes aren’t just stereotypes: D.C. to begin using more-expensive Trojan condoms in HIV prevention program High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of good enough quality and are too small . . . So D.C. officials have […]

The Rand Paul Round Robin

Rather than continue extending my previous “Intellectual Terrorism” discussion of the Rand Paul civil-rights controversy, I’ll link some relevant stuff here. James Joyner at Outside the Beltway: Doug Mataconis, Oliver Willis, and I were engaged in a brief Twitter back-and-forth on this one last night.  It’s a tougher question than it sounds, especially to a 20-something […]

Rachel Maddow vs. Rand Paul: Intellectual Terrorism and ‘Civil Rights’

Here’s the video: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy David Weigel has some interesting analysis: So is Rand Paul a racist? No, and it’s irritating to watch his out-of-context quotes . . . splashed on the Web to make that point. Paul believes, as many conservatives believe, that the […]

If the Tea Party Movement Is Racist . . .

. . . does that make Bob Bennett a Magic Negro? I’m just asking, because the basic argument of Tea Party-bashers (like Charles Blow) can be summarized by the syllogism: The Tea Party movement is anti-Obama; Obama is black; Ergo, the Tea Party movement is racist. Which means that Bob Bennett must be black, or else Charles Blow […]

We Now Interrupt This Blog . . .

. . . for an urgent news announcement: MICHELLE MALKIN IS NOT WHITE She is, however, supreme: In an unrelated news development, Charlie Crist is brown. Like toast. MARCO RUBIO FOR U.S. SENATE

Mark Potok and the Hijacking of ‘Hate’

It was 1997 and I was a columnist for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune when the latest copy of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Intelligence Report” arrived at the office. Looking for some local angle in the report — my editor’s mantra was “local, local, local” — I flipped to the map in the back where, with […]

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