The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.12.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS State Department Official Grilled Over Benghazi At Nomination Hearing Victoria Nuland raked over coals for role in editing “talking points” on Benghazi Jay Carney Doesn’t Know About $34 Million Afghan HQ Troops Won’t Use What boondoggle? House GOP Stands Together On Farm Bill Bill passed with no Democrats, 12 […]

Brett Kimberlin: The ‘Musician-Activist’ That @MonicaHesse Wants You to Forget

1992: Gary Trudeau’s cartoon strip frequently cited Brett Kimberlin’s claims The Prisoner and the Politician Brett Coleman Kimberlin, a convicted marijuana smuggler, says he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle in the early 1970s. — Mark Singer, The New Yorker, Oct. 5, 1992 “In any case, it was [Cody] Shearer who, during the 1992 presidential campaign, […]

IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HUMANITY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.

— by Wombat-socho In this installment of the weekly book post, we’re going to take a look at two sets of novels which are set in the aforementioned Grim Future, but which have very different approaches to the Crapsack Universe humanity finds itself in, whether it’s Twenty Minutes Into The Future or forty millenia hence. […]

The Perverse Incentives and Unintended Consequences of ObamaCare, Continued

The road to Hell is paved by liberal Democrats: An upstate New York grocery chain that had been praised for offering health insurance to its part-time employees will eliminate those benefits as a result of the federal health-care law passed in 2010. “Several Wegmans employees confirmed part-time health benefits had been cut and said the […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.11.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS House Republicans Resist Establishment Cries For Immigration “Reform” Caucus has no interest in passing a “comprehensive” bill with “path to citizenship” Egypt Orders Arrest Of MoBro Chief Badie Accused with nine others of instigating Monday’s riots Boston Bomber Tsarnaev Pleads Not Guilty Relatives, survivors present for pleading POLITICS Spitzer […]

#TrayvonGate: How the U.S. Justice Department Abetted a Legal Lynching

While I haven’t followed the George Zimmerman trial closely, I have noticed the widespread reaction to the trial, namely, “Why are they even having this trial?” There is no way in hell Zimmerman will be convicted. Some see it as a clear-cut case of self-defense, but everyone who has watched the testimony sees enough “reasonable […]

U.S. Senate or Insane Asylum?

At Memeorandum, I saw this headline: HISTORIC: Senate panel advances trans-inclusive ENDA Perhaps you thought the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill was the craziest thing the Senate could ever do, but obviously you were wrong. What this legislation would do is to make it a federal crime to discriminate in the workplace against the “transgendered.” […]

Feminists Silent as ‘Progressive Activist’ Brett Kimberlin Terrorizes His Wife

Brett Kimberlin could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison John Hoge reports today that the reason Tetyana Kimberlin was taken into custody at the end of yesterday’s court hearing in Maryland is that Brett Kimberlin tried to have his estranged wife involuntarily committed for 72-hour psychiatric evaluation. Thankfully, Judge Patricia Mitchell denied […]

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