The Other McCain

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

If @AmandaMarcotte Made You a Sandwich, Would You Eat It?

“I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication […]

Chip Gerdes, Remembered

Chip Gerdes (left) with Dana Loesch and Andrew Breitbart I could tell you some of the brilliant work @tookiew did for the conservative cause, but then I’d have to kill you. R.I.P. #RMFT — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 6, 2013 The first rule of Chip Gerdes was, nobody talked about Chip Gerdes. In a […]

Like Many Other Liberal Activists, @Political_Bill Doesn’t Like Police

Of course, if you had gotten busted for possession of drugs and child pornography, maybe you’d hate cops, too: William “Bill” Talley aka @Political_Bill on Twitter … is a convicted sex offender who has managed to delay going to prison through evidentiary appeals. During that time, he has emerged as a progressive voice on Twitterand even briefly enjoyed board status in a […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Cinco de Mayo Massive Catching-Up Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, it wasn’t supposed to go down that way, but unfortunately my vile & treacherous body had other plans – so I wound up spending an extra week in Minnesota recovering from an infected leg instead of working on the FMJRA and the ever-popular Rule 5 Sunday. Well, we have three […]

Muslim Student Association Doesn’t Get Credit for Soccer League Sponsorship

Kind of an interesting omission, don’t you think? Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has ignored admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s connection to his college’s Muslim Student Association, a group that has close relations with both the Muslim Brotherhood and a local imam friendly with an al-Qaida operative. Although a student leader and the mainstream media […]

You Disagree With @Instapundit At Your Peril, But I’m Going With Nicolaitanism Over Oikophobia

by Smitty Pondering why we can’t talk about guns, Insty quotes Barry Snell . . .we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place. . . and concludes: […]

A Festive Occasion!

National Offend a Feminist Week begins tomorrow and ends (as per tradition) on Mother’s Day, but why not start the party early, eh? Today is “Make Me a Sandwich, @amandamarcotte” Day viralread.com/2013/05/05/the… (Because I said so, that’s why.) — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 5, 2013 UPDATE: Thinking back to when it all began in […]

The Highly Ironic Syrian End-Game?

When last we examined the mess in Syria, President Obama was embarrassed that the Assad regime had crossed his “red line” by reportedly using chemical weapons against the rebels (who are, by the way, a dangerous mob of Islamic extremists). And so now the ironic denouement, in headlines via  Memeorandum:   Damascus hit ‘by Israeli […]

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