The Other McCain

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

Speculation Is Not Reporting

That is the lesson that journalists (and bloggers) ought to learn from yesterday’s coverage of the Arizona mass murder: Less than four hours transpired between the time the shootings occurred in the parking lot of a Tucson grocery store and the time the Associated Press identified 22-year-old Loughner as the suspect. The first AP bulletin to […]

Arizona Shooter ‘Seems to Be Someone Desperately Needing Mental Health Care’

That quote is how Dan Gibson of Tucson Weekly describes suspected suspected gunman Jared Loughner, based on the 22-year-old’s Internet rantings. And that’s just about all we can say at this point. Last year, Loughner was photographed smiling while working as a volunteer at the Tucson Festival of Books. His own list of favorite reading […]

ARIZONA OUTRAGE: Rep. Giffords Shot in Tucson; U.S. Judge Killed; Gunman Identified as Jared Loughner, 22

UPDATE 5:05 p.m. ET: According to CBS News, Jared Loughner, 22, reportedly used a semi-automatic pistol with an extra-large ammo clip in the attack that critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), killed at least five others — including a 9-year-old girl, a federal judge and one of Giffords’ aides — and wounded several more people. […]

In Which No Less Than Peggy Noonan Wrings A Confession From Me

by Smitty While not having time to write much of anything, I am driven to confess: I have sinned and fallen short of the glory of Peggy Noonan. True, I was never a Commanding Officer like Captain Honors, but, nevertheless, if I am to be shriven of sins and become a whole citizen in her […]

Global Warming Update

Got about three inches of snow last night at my house on the west slope of South Mountain in Washington County, Maryland. But the climate-change scaremongers say that’s weather, not climate, like we’re too dumb to know the difference. Brendan O’Neill: Anyone with a shred of self-respect who had predicted The End Of Snow would surely now admit that […]

A Song for All My Feminist Fans

Donald Douglas has been having all the fun with you ladies lately, and it’s probably time I joined in again:

‘When You Remove A Cancer, What Do You Replace It With?’

by Smitty That was Thomas Sowell’s answer to Peter Schiff Robinson [oops!], in response to the demand for a follow-on to the Federal Reserve. If you’ve read End The Fed, and you should, you’ll enjoy hearing Prof. Sowell, an academic actually worthy of your respect, state simply that the Federal Reserve simply ain’t packin’ the […]

4 Dems Vote to Repeal ObamaCare?

Kinda. It was a procedural vote: [T]he new Republican-led House took a first step Friday toward a symbolic vote to repeal his landmark health care overhaul law, which would provide coverage to more than 30 million Americans without health insurance. But the 236-181 largely party-line vote is unlikely to amount to more than a political […]

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