The Other McCain

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

‘Jeremiah, You Demented Old Bastard’

Doug Hagin’s Daley Gator podcast examines Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology: Doug’s talking about this video posted at Weasel Zippers:

Methodists Support Hamas

British Methodists have decided that Israel is evil: The Methodists boycott no other country. The fact that an institution professing allegiance to values of love, truth and justice should have succumbed to an agenda of hatred, hypocrisy and barbarism is sadly emblematic of the degraded spirit of our times, and of the moral inversions which […]

Science Validates Bible

To a fundamentalist, there was kind of a “well, duh” reaction to this recent headline: Studies Show Jews’ Genetic Similarity It’s scarcely surprising to learn that members of an ethno-religious group — whose ancient scriptures advocate endogamy and proscribe marrying outside the group — would be genetically similar. What I didn’t realize, however, was that some revisionist historians have cast doubt […]

Intellectuals: Smarter Than God?

Robert Knight takes a hard look at the elite punditocracy’s slow slide into moral relativism: On ABC’s This Week on May 30, [George] Will agreed with colleague Matthew Dowd that apart from a few glitches, homosexuality will soon be a non-issue in the military. . . . Will: “For people of Matt’s son’s generation, being gay […]

The Woman That Feminists Hate Most

No, it’s not Sarah Palin. I’m talking about “Just Mommy”: Like everyone else, I learned to think of “mother” as something you become after you’ve proven that you can do grown-up stuff. . . . Well, she found out different and you might say the story has a happy ending. You might say that, unless you’re a […]

VIDEO: Comedy Central vs. God

Viacom declares open season on Jesus: Michelle Oddis at Human Events: A group of prominent conservatives spoke out Thursday against an animated series that Viacom’s Comedy Central is developing called “JC,” saying it was a “glaring double standard where religious matters are concerned.” . . [Brent] Bozell said [Citizens Against Religious Bigotry] has sent letters […]

Siccing the FBI on Little Miss Attila?

No, the Obama administration isn’t after our blog friend. When she was a young teenager back in the 1970s, Little Miss Attila spent a few years in a church that she now describes as a cult. That has not endeared her to those who remain within the flock of minister R.L. Hymers Jr., nor has […]

Who Is Rachel Tabachnick, and Why Is She Attacking Phyllis Chesler?

This may be a more important question than it appears at first glance, because you may not know who Phyllis Chesler is, and you’ve almost certainly never heard of Rachel Tabachnick. But there is a mystery afoot, so follow the clues, Scooby-Doo. First things first: Phyllis Chesler is an important feminist author who, after 9/11, […]

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