The Other McCain

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

Ron Paul Supporters Slam Rand After Republicans Block Hagel Nomination

Allahpundit points out that Chuck Hagel was one vote away from passing a cloture vote to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense: But wait — what about Rand Paul? If ever there was a SecDef nominee whom the Ron Paul paleocon fan base could sort of dig, it’s a guy known for lamenting the “Israel […]

Stormfront for Liberals: The New Republic

Chris Hughes: Liberal white-guilt peddler from Elite City “The New Republic has abandoned its liberal but heterodox tradition and embraced a leftist outlook as predictable as that of Mother Jones or the Nation.” — Marty Peretz, former publisher of The New Republic After Facebook zillionaire Chris Hughes purchased The New Republic, he proclaimed that the magazine, which […]

Elite Pundit, Belatedly Catching Up With Me, Recognizes the ‘Fox Trap’

How long have I been talking about the “Fox Trap”? Forever, it seems, but for example, here’s a description from February 2009: Media-wise, the GOP made the mistake of putting all its eggs in one basket. I enjoy Fox News, but it has created a syndrome where Republicans watch Fox all the time and delude themselves […]

Fear & Loathing Among the Conservative Intellectuals: A Stubborn Sense of Panic

Mark Steyn and fans at the National Review Institute Summit “Growing up in the USSR, where the only permitted sources of information were textbooks and the official media, I believed that the Soviet Union was the most advanced society in the world. All other countries lived in poverty and oppression, devoid of the sun of […]

Fear and Loathing at the #NRISummit: Can We Survive the Sarcasm Deficit?

Perhaps National Review‘s famed cartoonist Roman Genn can do a savage caricature of the donnybrook brawl I’ve been trying to incite for this weekend’s National Review Institute “Future of Conservatism” Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Was it a smart career move to kick Jonah Goldberg in the knee? No, of course […]

When the Good Guys Win

FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE YEAR! pjmedia.com/instapundit/16… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 20, 2013 “She was very brave, she stayed on the phone with the dispatcher the whole time — talked all the way through it and was still on the phone with dispatch when we got into the house.” — Ken Golden, Bryan County […]

The Choices We Actually Have

Reading the liberal Gin and Tacos blog yesterday — “It’s Not Like Intellectuals Hating Their Stupid Parents Is a Cliché or Anything” — I came across what the pseudonymous assistant professor of political science offered as a statement of his philosophy, a rant against libertarianism. That rant by “Ed” was inspired by an 2008 airline trip […]

It’s Not Like Intellectuals Hating Their Stupid Parents Is a Cliché or Anything

Being clever and funny about the stupidity of one’s elders is one of the more vicious habits of youthful ingrates, and it’s generally impossible to appreciate one’s elders until you are yourself compelled to cope with the burden of responsibility and authority. Even then, some people are so smugly satisfied with their own superiority that they can’t […]

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