The Other McCain

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

Adam Gadahn Can Look Forward To Excruciating Torment

by Smitty Dan Riehl notes of the recent acquisition in Karachi: I also wish he were being interrogated under the Bush administration, as opposed to the current one. This blog has obtained some hush-hush footage of the new interrogation methods to be used by the Administration’s elite interrogation outfit, code name: Redwater. In our endless […]

Another ‘Anti-Government Right Wing Extremist of the Ron Paulian Persuasion’

No, not Pentagon shooter Patrick Bedell — as described by Charles Johnson — I’m talking about that other 9/11 Truther: Two days before his official trip to Afghanistan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a “big lie” intended to pave the way for the invasion of a war-torn nation, […]

Krauthammer for President?

Bloggers aren’t supposed to call attention to their advertisements (i.e., gaming the click-throughs) but the AdSense rotation just featured an ad for a product clever enough to be legitimately newsworthy:  OK, who wants to organize the “Draft Krauthammer Committee”? Even those who don’t agree with Krauthammer must admit he crafts sentences with brutal conciseness: Late last year, Democrats were marveling at how […]

All the News That’s Fit to Steal

The New York Times admits to acting as a “fence” for a word thief: Zachery Kouwe, a Times business reporter for a little over a year, resigned last month after he was accused of plagiarizing from The Wall Street Journal. . . . Plagiarism is a mortal journalistic sin, and Kouwe’s departure was inevitable from […]

Understatement of the Day

McConnell: RNC Fundraising Presentation ‘Not Helpful’

Marty Peretz Declares Victory in Iraq

It’s a rather idiosyncratic argument that will be of interest mainly to foreign policy junkies, which I’m not. Still, you’ve got to love the money quote: Frankly, I couldn’t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs turning out especially well. This is, you will say, my prejudice. But some prejudices are built on real […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Rule 5 Sunday. Last night on Twitter I happened into the #thankaliberal hash tag. And an argument with someone, presumably in CA, that Liberals invented the Internet. Whatevah. I need this post so that ah can get mah head right again. Here’s My Thing brings the Shannon Elizabeth, and Emmy Rossum. The Pirate’s […]

Why Do Charles Johnson’s Beliefs Keep Turning Out to Be Delusional?

Professor Glenn Reynolds has linked my essay about narcissism, scapegoating and paranoia. Speaking of paranoid narcissists, remember when Charles Johnson called the Pentagon shooter an “anti-government right wing extremist of the Ron Paulian persuasion”?  Wrong again, Chuckles. John Patrick Bedell was a dopehead peacenik loser of the “No Blood for Oil” persuasion who slowly descended into paranoid psychosis: Bedell . . . had vigorously […]

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