The Other McCain

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

Pennsylvania Teacher Suspended for Telling Truth About Kids Nowadays

They ought to pin a medal on her: Teacher Natalie Munroe makes no excuses for writing blog posts about her students which include statements like, “A complete and utter jerk in all ways,” “although academically okay your child has no other redeeming qualities,” “I hear the trash company is hiring,” and “There’s no other way […]

Jill Filipovic Throws Me Some Traffic; Little Green Footballs, Not So Much

America’s Favorite Feminist responds to this morning’s provocation by accusing me of promoting the narrative, “Brown people are savages who will go after pretty white women.” A near-miss there, Ms. Filipovic, but thanks for linking me. Meanwhile . . . It’s really sad that he’s got nothing better to do. While I’m on the hook […]

It’s a Good Day for Bieber Blogging

Not that there’s ever a bad day to blog about Justin Bieber, but it’s not every day that a Bieber story turns up on the Memeorandum feed: “I don’t think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them,” Bieber says. . . . The Canadian-born Bieber never plans on becoming an American citizen. […]

NYU Fires Nir Rosen, Liberal Writer Who Slammed Lara Logan as ‘War Monger’

Despite my attempt this morning to draw feminist fire, they were too busy claiming the scalp of a left-wing anti-war writer: Nirs Rosen has lost his prestigious fellowship at New York University’s Center for Law and Security. Academic fellowships are how the Left rewards journalists who advance the Left’s agenda, an academic subsidy that enables […]

Paging Jill Filipovic

Please tell me what I am permitted to say when a gang of Egyptian men celebrates the end of the Mubarak regime by sexually assaulting an American TV news reporter: Maybe Egyptians could use one of Filipovic’s pious lectures about “no means no” and “stop means stop.” I’d probably be accused of some sort of […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.16.11

TOP NEWS Teheran’s Mullahs Beat Down New Protests Secretary Clinton calls out hypocrisy of the Iranian regime GOP Derides President’s Lack of Leadership On Budget (Video) Republicans open to working with White House Governor Brown Freezes California Hiring Drops suit that would have reduced state workers’ salaries to minimum wage POLITICS President Awards Medal Of […]

Breathtaking: Liberal Calls Herman Cain ‘Minstrel,’ ‘Coon,’ ‘Sambo,’ ‘Monkey’

Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of insulting liberal condescension, they surprise you: Black History Month is Herman Cain Playing the Race Minstrel for CPAC In the Alternet article beneath that headline, pseudonymous writer Chauncey De Vega employs a lot of academic “race theory” talk to justify insulting Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. […]

Because They’re Better Than You

Megan McArdle did a post about evidence that academia systematically excludes conservatives. Liberals responded by justfying and/or defending this exclusion, offering a variety of excuses which Megan summarizes thus: •Smart people are almost always liberal •Curiosity and interest in ideas is a liberal trait •Conservatives are too rigid and authoritarian to maintain the open mind required of a […]

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