The Other McCain

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

Call it ‘The McCain Plan’

The New York Times reports: Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college. My daughter was home-schooled through 9th grade, entered a Christian academy as a 14-year-old […]

Killer Socialist Professor Update

Harvard-educated murderer Amy Bishop displayed her enlightened, sophisticated academic temperament: In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother. Bishop, according to a police report, strode over to […]

Reinhold Neibuhr Was a Subversive Pinko (and Other Conservative Insights)

One of the more amusing tendencies of certain “conservative intellectuals” — the scare-quotes are necessaary, if you know the type of people I have in mind — is their habit of name-checking famous (dead) conservatives in pursuit of arguments about the unworthiness of famous (living) conservatives. Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter will say something that […]

‘Almost Never’ Is Once Too Often

“Certainly, there are lots of socialists on college faculties across the land. Happily, they almost never engage in killing sprees.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway UPDATE: The plot thickens: The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of […]

Professor Is Denied Tenure, Opens Fire in University Faculty Meeting, 3 Dead

Unusual and tragic violence: HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville faculty shot and killed three co-workers on campus. Sources close to the investigation identify the suspect as Dr. Amy Bishop. Police also have the alleged shooter’s husband in custody. He has not been formally charged with anything. University spokesman […]

Why Aren’t You Home-Schooling Yet?

Pamela Geller reports exclusively on how high school students are being recruited and indoctrinated by Obama’s Organizing for America in an “internship program is geared towards the 2010 elections.” That’s just one report from Massillon, Ohio, but it’s everywhere now. When Howard Zinn became a good Commie this week, comments pointed out that Zinn’s Marxist history is now standard […]

Marxist Historian Howard Zinn, 87, Consigned to the Ash Heap of History

Funny how the Boston Globe can’t bring itself to describe Howard Zinn as the avowed Marxist he was, but you get the drift here: The focus of his activism became the Vietnam War. Dr. Zinn spoke at many rallies and teach-ins and drew national attention when he and the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, another leading antiwar […]

The Battle of P.S. 234

Julia Vitullo-Martin in the New York Post: Tribeca is embroiled in a bitter neighborhood-school war that some residents say is jeopardizing its sense of community, as well as its future. It’s a story repeated from time to time all across New York. The key question will be decided tonight: Which families will be forced out […]

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