The Other McCain

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

Why Aren’t You Homeschooling Yet?

The government school system is becoming a pathetic joke: In what amounts to self-parody, an elementary school in California will hold a toy gun exchange — similar to the real gun exchanges run by police departments for real guns — in order to remove the, er, threat of toy guns at school. Years ago, someone […]

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 […]

When the Truth Is Scandalous

Jonathan Karl of ABC News is evidently a Republican, and liberals think it’s a horrible scandal that a Republican could be employed as a reporter: “Didn’t he see the ‘No Republicans Allowed’ sign?” Meanwhile, Jason Richwine’s recent resignation from the Heritage Foundation, a subject I haven’t previously discussed, yields a secondary story that is either […]

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 […]

Domestic Terrorists Teaching At Colleges?

Guest Blog by Ryan James Girdusky Controversy ensued when the news broke that Kathy Boudin, former member of the Weather Underground who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder, received the position of adjunct professor at Columbia University.  While it may be ironic that Boudin received a teaching position at a university she was plotted […]

Jeff. G. Heroically Resists

The epic saga of Meg Lanker-Simons continues to yield rich and varied opportunities for the deployment of vicious satire: Last night, a bit tipsy on Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey, I’ll admit, I was subjected to (but nevertheless was able to rebuff) a sudden and violent attempt to hate fuck myself. Unfortunately, the rebuff made me quite angry, […]

Dear English Teachers: You’re Welcome

What’s wrong with this headline? Jason Collins’ Other Hidden Secret Everybody was beating up on Howard Kurtz for the factual error of his story, but the headline was also ungrammatical. The possessive form of a proper name ending in “s” — e.g., Jones — requires the apostrophe-S: The pistol was found in Jones’s car. And, […]

The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended

The university campus in Laramie was gripped by fear last week: “I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good […]

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