The Other McCain

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

At a Loss for Words Now

Busy day Thursday, for obvious reasons — the press conference, the official suspect photos — and a couple late developments I’ve got to catch up with before I can go to bed. Dan Riehl may have a hot scoop here that I’m not willing to follow now, but I’ll certainly keep watching. Twice, I tried […]

Joe Biden Invents Phony Gun Statistics — Because SHUT UP HATERS, That’s Why!

Stephen Gutowski describes the goofball’s latest anti-gun idiocy: By combining, apparently in his head and on the fly, the demonstrably inaccurate “80,000 plus people a year” with the debunked claim that 40% of gun sales in America don’t require a background check, Mr. Biden reaches the completely unverifiable claim that “between 30,000 and 50,000 who […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 04.18.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Mississippi Man Arrested In Ricin Letters Case Suspect arrested at his home in Corinth Ten States Threaten EPA With Lawsuit Agency has failed to issue guidelines on greenhouse gas emissions Senate Shoots Down Gun Control Measures Bipartisan vote triggers Obama tantrum POLITICS Senator Max Baucus Says Obamacare Heading For […]

TV Won’t Show You the Pictures, But the Reddit/4Chan Guys Have Apparently ID’d the Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects

After watching Fox and CNN dance around the subject — “We’ve seen the photos that the FBI doesn’t want released to the public” — and doing some careful comparison of descriptions available here and there . . . Yep, I guess these are the (alleged) bombers the feds are after. So, if the feds don’t want […]

Rule 5 Wednesday: Once More Into The Bleach

— compiled by Wombat-socho Because Debbie Harry was awesome hot back in the day, when I was a young joey. First, some administrivia: there will be no Rule 5 Sunday this coming weekend, but please continue to submit links for the Month-End Double Stuf Makeup Edition on April 29. As for this week’s belated parade […]

BREAKING: Cable TV News Airheads Screwed Up a Major Story, Again

So, I was working on this story: Chinese Student Lu Lingzi, 23, Identified as Third Victim Killed by Boston Marathon Bombing When a certain blonde woman on cable TV news began informing me (and you and a lot of other people) that a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing had been identified from video. And […]

Pressure Cooker: In Hunt for Bombing Suspects, Speculation Runs Rampant

This morning’s headline at ViralRead: Photos Show Pressure-Cooker Bomb Remnants; FBI Hunts Suspects in Boston Marathon Bombing Trying to focus on the crucial facts of the story can be difficult, when cable TV news is full of time-filling chatter about things that aren’t actually news, alternating with the dramatic reiteration of banal facts that everybody with Internet access knew about 12 […]

LIVE AT FIVENINE: 04.17.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Britain Bids Farewell To The Iron Lady Thousands line streets to watch her hearse pass; some protest silently Envelope With Ricin Sent To Senator Wicker Poisoned letter sent to Mississippi Republican Boston Marathon Bombing Puzzle Being Pieced Together Authorities certain “how”, but not “who” or “why” yet POLITICS Memorial […]

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