The Other McCain

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

War to the Knife, Knife to the Hilt

David Horowitz on Saturday fired back at Diana West in the seemingly interminable war over West’s book American Betrayal. What I can’t understand is why this back-and-forth has to continue. This began, you will recall, when Horowitz published Ron Radosh’s attack on Diana’s book, an attack that would seem a continuation of the general line […]

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. […]

The Golden Age

— Wombat-socho I’m getting a late start on this thanks to being distracted by people whining about Dragon*Con and Worldcon, which were on the same weekend this year. If you’re interested in SF fandom, you can go read my LJ post about it, which I didn’t do here because it’s not really pertinent. Anyhow, what […]

FAQ You, Seriously

— Wombat-socho 1. Where did all these book posts start coming from? We’ve had them here at The Other McCain for a while, as you can see by clicking on the “Books” tag at the bottom of this post. Stacy reads a lot, I read a lot, and Smitty likewise is a big fan of […]

Q.E.D.: @MaxBoot Is a Lying Swindler

Every honest man despises.@MaxBoot, who is a lying swindler. http://t.co/KTdYtdvAY0 Quod erat demonstrandum. @AmPowerBlog — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) August 24, 2013 Daniel J. Flynn is a gentleman and a scholar and a fellow contributor at The American Spectator, which sure as hell has never paid either of us $2 a word — !!!! — […]

Space Opera

—Wombat-socho Last week we looked at classic military SF involving soldiers on the ground; this week, we’re going to do the same with space navies. Any discussion of space opera HAS to start with E.E. “Doc” Smith, who single-handedly created the genre with two epic series. The Skylark of Space is the first of four […]

Conrad Black’s FDR Idolatry

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins My parents were New Deal Democrats, but I grew up at a time and in a place when Republicans were extraordinarily rare. I’ve often said I never actually met a Republican until I went to college and, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t […]

Major Jordan, Carroll Reece, Birchers, Buckley and the Attack on Diana West

Diana West, interviewed by The Blaze, July 17 One of the stories Diana West tells in her new book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character is about Army Maj. George Racey Jordan, whose tale about Lend-Lease shipments to the Soviet Union you can read beginning on page 110 of the book. West recounts, […]

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