The Other McCain

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

Late Night With In The Mailbox

— compiled by Wombat-socho Rule 5 Sunday is going to be punted until this weekend, when we’ll have a double scoop of pulchritudinous goodness, possibly involving ducks, but not turkeys. Going to do the long-delayed FMJRA tomorrow evening, and there’ll probably be a book post in there somewhere. Thanks to everyone for your patience! OVER […]

The Progressive Myth of ‘Diversity’

“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” — Thomas Sowell, 1998 In his 2012 book The Tyranny of Clichés, Jonah Goldberg recounts the pinnacle of his career, when the inclusion of his column (and the discontinuation of left-wing columnist Robert Scheer) […]

The Academic Temple Cult

While university administrators surrender to protest mobs of young barbarians, we behold the decline of cultural literacy: Not only are way too many of today’s students not getting a basic grounding in these things from their schools, but they’re probably not getting it from way too many of their parents, either. No wonder so many […]

Is Joyce Carol Oates The Source Of Obama’s Pollyanna Foreign Policy?

by Smitty All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive? — Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) November 22, 2015 Sweetheart, of course there is. When they hear the shriek of a man burning alive, they are overcome with joy. https://t.co/40h78SfWRQ — NeanderthalPrivilege (@Shgamha) November 24, […]

Stand By For A Trump Mulligan

by Smitty The “deal” Trump is likely referring to is his agreement in September to sign a pledge not to run as an independent. He said at the time he was given the “assurance that I would be treated fairly” by RNC chairman Reince Priebus in return for signing the pledge. The Wall Street Journal […]

The Misogyny of Atheist Dudebros and the Godless Misandry of Lesbian Tumblrinas

Sarah is a 20-year-old social work student with a radical feminist Tumblr blog — adorned by a rainbow-colored Wicca pentagram — who hates men almost as much as she hates God: Overzealous atheists are 9 times out of 10 annoying racist misogynistic dudebros but in my opinion it’s totally justified for same sex attracted people to […]

Sen. Free Stuff (D-Awesome)

  His economic ideas are as obsolete as Eugene V. Debs, his foreign policy proposals can be summarized in two words — unilateral disarmament — and yet the socialist senator from Vermont inspires orgasmic enthusiasm from Generation Selfie: It’s about the millennial generation and how they just love Bernie Sanders, the oldest white man in […]

‘The Stars Aligned’

Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” is one of those songs I never get tired of hearing. I seldom listen to contemporary pop music, preferring old rock and soul classics of the 1960s and ’70s, but “Rolling in the Deep” is an exception. In a BBC interview, the British singer explained how she suddenly gained worldwide […]

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