The Other McCain

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

‘They Started to Fight Over Her and I Knew She Was Going to Be Raped’

  Maybe if it had been committed by the Duke lacrosse team, you would have heard of this atrocity by now, but it happened five years ago in another country. Amanda Marcotte probably didn’t notice: Jamie Paterson, 17: “I was lying down and I could hear them undoing the TV and then throwing it across […]

1987: Thatcher Responds to ‘Further Intensification of the Armed Struggle’

When Margaret Thatcher died in April, the British Left reacted with the kind of ugly viciousness you would expect of the British Left. This is worth remembering today when liberals are demanding that everyone must now forget the reality of who Nelson Mandela was. Thatcher’s death, in fact, was the occasion for the Left to […]

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 12.06.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 A flood of emotion from around the world French Reinforcements Arrive In Central African Republic UN authorizes French, African military action “Ice Friday” Bears Down On South, Midwest Snow, freezing rain, sub-freezing temperatures from Texas to Indiana POLITICS Congress Nears Modest Accord On Budget […]

‘Unspeakable Atrocities’

“It’s a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq’s oil. . . . “If there […]

Obama’s Underpants Gnome Economy

Remember the infamous business plan from the South Park episode? Collect Underpants ? Profit Say hello to the president’s economic theory: Here's how to improve our economy and create hundreds of thousands of jobs: #RaiseTheWage. http://t.co/NLM2t9NyhS pic.twitter.com/UDTcTSaqZJ — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 4, 2013 It would be an insult to readers to explain why this […]

Ace Hates Him Some Spider-Man

Our hero battles an evil franchise that possesses sinister powers of luring dumb 13-year-old boys to the local multiplex: Apparently they’re making so much money with bad Spider-Man movies they’ve already greenlit sequels for 2016 and 2018. I guess that’s the ultimate in movie properties — if you can make $750 million with a bad movie, […]

Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem

Woolwich, England, May 22: Killer shouted, ‘Allahu akbar!’ Gee, how did they ever figure this out? Britain plans to classify “Islamist extremism” as a distinct ideology, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, as part the government’s response to the murder of a soldier on a busy London street. Cameron said he would implement […]

A Death In Bedford Falls

— Wombat-socho Once in a while you trip over a book that normally you wouldn’t look twice at, and so far this month I’ve found two of them. The first is a peculiar beast: It’s A Wonderful Death is a noir sequel to Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie It’s A Wonderful Life, starring former New […]

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