The Other McCain

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

James Fallows, Eminent Fool, and the Surprising Vindication of John C. Calhoun

“The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through […]

The Left Suppresses Its Own History

Lee Stranahan has an excellent article about how the Left has attempted to hide the truth about its own ideological history, so that anyone who uses the phrase “Cultural Marxism” to describe the crucial influence of the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, et al.) is accused of being a “conspiracy theorist” or worst: The […]

War to the Knife, Knife to the Hilt

David Horowitz on Saturday fired back at Diana West in the seemingly interminable war over West’s book American Betrayal. What I can’t understand is why this back-and-forth has to continue. This began, you will recall, when Horowitz published Ron Radosh’s attack on Diana’s book, an attack that would seem a continuation of the general line […]

The Urge to Purge: Strange Events Inspired by Diana West Controversy

Diana West, interviewed by The Blaze, July 17 In case you missed it, we have been intermittently following the controversy surrounding Diana West’s new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character: June 6: ‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent? Aug. 8: Diana West Dissed by David Horowitz? Aug. […]

Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Radical Impulse

Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme, 1975 President Gerald Ford’s video testimony about Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme’s 1975 assassination attempt has been released, and if you read through the story, you encounter this: At times during the trial, [Fromme] was ordered removed from court because of her tantrums and bizarre ramblings about the environment, saving the redwoods and other […]

Potius Mori Quam Foedari

Loosely translated, “Death before dishonor.” Brand-new blogger Brad the Bastard paid me this high compliment: When Stacy dies his wife should save herself some money and put just one word on his tombstone — RELENTLESS. Did anyone think that when I caught the whiff of bovine excrement around the “Free Kate” narrative, and realized those […]

Conrad Black’s FDR Idolatry

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins My parents were New Deal Democrats, but I grew up at a time and in a place when Republicans were extraordinarily rare. I’ve often said I never actually met a Republican until I went to college and, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t […]

Major Jordan, Carroll Reece, Birchers, Buckley and the Attack on Diana West

Diana West, interviewed by The Blaze, July 17 One of the stories Diana West tells in her new book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character is about Army Maj. George Racey Jordan, whose tale about Lend-Lease shipments to the Soviet Union you can read beginning on page 110 of the book. West recounts, […]

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