The Other McCain

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

The Silence of Mark Singer; Also: Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Monday

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION Three years ago, progressive blogger Seth Allen was in communication with Mark Singer, whose 1996 book Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, had exposed Kimberlin as pathologically dishonest — a “top-flight con man,” as a reviewer for Publisher’s Weekly put it. A February 2009 e-mail exhange published […]

Mark Oxner For Congress

by Smitty Yet another excellent outing from the Mark Oxner campaign in the relentless quest for a Grayson-free 113th Congress: Unlike a lot of political ads, this one has enough small touches to stand up to repeated viewings. Probably a brilliant auteur. Mark Oxner for Congress Because Alan Grayson has more business in a live-action […]

The Smell Of Voter Fraud In The Making: Recalls The Settling Pond In Kandahar

by Smitty For those who have not had the pleasure of a visit to Kandahar, it’s like some Mad Max setting, with 115° heat, dust everywhere, and an afternoon chife that hits the nose with the subtlety of a hurled cinder block. Oh, and the rocket alerts, directing you to get into the shelters that […]

Elizabeth Warren’s Iron Maiden Tribute Band Is A Huge Hit

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS Art and politics have just had another one of their strange collisions. Friday night Pseudajawea rocked Partner’s Pub, and Strolling Drone correspondent Sissypuss was there to take in the show. The entire set was filled with excitement, as the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate flexed considerable heavy metal […]

The Afghanistan War Was A Total Success

by Smitty Insty points to HotAir on the Afghanistan Surge being mishandled. This argument operates under a misapprehension that any of Obama’s Afghanistan policy was ever serious in the first place. Obama campaigned in 2008 on the notion that the unpopular Iraq war was a distraction: Democrat Obama declared that the failed policy in Iraq […]

Sunday Morning Meditation

by Smitty For those who’ve enjoyed my bits of doggerel, I was checking to see if you can do SVG in WordPress: And the answer is ‘Sure, as long as you do not mind an Internal Server Error in lieu of what you really wanted.’ Here is the poem layed out less experimentally: Cross The […]

Neal Rauhauser’s Bizarre Suspicions, and Profiling the (Hypothetical) ‘UnSub’

‘Deeply disturbed … narcissism … sociopathic’? “Please think about your family. This story is not worth it. I can assure you that. . . . “I am trying to help you, a lot of people are very disappointed that this story has continued.” — “Alicia Pain,” June 23, 2011 “Another possible outcome would be a […]

In Which I Take Fast, Furious Cheap Shot At Jay Carney

by Smitty President Obama may have to clear a high bar in order to lock down Fast and Furious documents from the prying eyes of congressional investigators. . . An imaginary exchange at the daily White House Press Briefing. . . Carney: Now, I am not privy to the Fast & Furious documents that are […]

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