The Other McCain

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

#CPAC2017: Kellyanne Conway, Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Dana Loesch, Steve Bannon

  NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland A big agenda of speakers today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, although the President doesn’t speak until Friday: Just less than a year ago, Donald Trump decided to skip CPAC – a decision the organization said he would come to regret, since it “sends a clear message to conservatives.” The […]

A Modern Love Story

On Valentine’s Day, Lenore Skenazy at Reason told the story of Zachary, who was 17 years old when he met a girl who was 13, who had a friend, also a 13-year-old girl, who “shared Zachary’s love of dragons and videogames.” An online romance flourished via Skype between Zachary and the dragon-loving girl and — […]

Bad Movies and Robert De Niro (and Why Donald Trump Is Not Literally Hitler)

  In March 1975, Robert De Niro was 31 years old when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his breakthrough role as young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. Leslie Mann was barely 3 years old at the time, and there was something distinctly weird about Mann, now 44, being cast […]

‘She Told Me Her Teacher Was Molesting Her,’ Says Mother of Teenage Victim

Camryn Zelinger molested a 14-year-old girl, police say. Disturbing news from California: The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly molested by a former teacher at a performing arts high school in California is speaking out. “I’m a nosy mother, and I grabbed her phone, and I looked at texts from this teacher, sexting […]

You Say You Want a Revolution

  Why did the anarchist “black bloc” riot at Berkeley? Because students are learning what their teachers are teaching them: The major student-run paper of UC Berkeley ran five op-eds Tuesday defending the riots on campus, and arguing that violence was an acceptable response to a speech from Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. The Daily Californian […]

‘Aspiring Serial Killer’ Amy Brown (and Other Reasons to Avoid Online Dating)

You meet the worst people on Craigslist: An “aspiring serial killer” allegedly stabbed her date in a motel and planned to eat his heart after killing him. The victim told police Amy Brown, 24, repeatedly asked him if he was a serial killer while the couple was in a motel room bed. When he said […]

Probably Not a Trump Voter

Browsing around feminist Tumblr blogs, I encountered this headline: DC Metro Rape Highlights Why Women Are Always Aware of Rape The blog links a Huffington Post column by Soraya Chemaly last May: This rape has made the police and media sit up and pay attention to street harassment, which is common on DC streets and […]

The #WomensMarch: Why Trump Won

        Does that look like a mainstream political movement to you? Ugly women holding up ugly signs expressing ugly sentiments — the #WomensMarch to protest Donald Trump’s presidency is perhaps the clearest explanation of why Donald Trump is president. The all-out feminist crusade mounted on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign reminded […]

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