The Other McCain

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

A Female Rodney King?

Doc Washburn called my attention to this item at a liberal blog about a woman named Christina West who got arrested for drunk driving and got her face broken by the cops. The liberal blog makes this a case of police brutality, but what I’m seeing is a drunk woman who disobeyed instructions while police […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.13.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS “Biblical” Rains Trigger Flooding That Kills Three In Colorado State bracing for more rain and flooding through the weekend Putin: World Must Welcome Syrian Steps On Chem Weapons Lauds Syrian decision to join convention on chemical weapons Taliban Hits US Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan Bomb attack kills three POLITICS […]

Can @Twitter @Safety Prevent This?

Apparently someone at Twitter paid attention and about 10,000 fake followers got scraped off my account, but there are still about 3,500 that need to be zapped. Twitter has got to do something to eliminate this problem. People kept telling me, “You should do this” or “You should do that,” and I was like, “Why […]

Three Authors and Some Extra Stuff

– Wombat-socho Last week I said I was going to talk about great SF writers of the 1950s, which I’ll do presently, but first a couple of items hot off the presses and onto my Kindle, so to speak. First up, Casey Neumiller sent me a review copy of Dead Man’s Fugue (for which much […]

Dear @Twitter Security: Kill These Fake Accounts (Real People RT, Please)

“Chadrick Shmitt MD,” “Melisa Howe II,” and roughly 5,000 more such accounts — zero Tweets, zero followers, names mismatched with handles, fake avatars, generic bromides as profile info — came swarming onto my account Wednesday night, following me in batches: “You have 58 new followers!” “You have 38 new followers!” Go out to smoke a […]

Post-Trayvon Wave of Anti-White Terrorist Violence Continues Every Day

The New York Post reports: An attacker pummeled a bus passenger so hard he smashed the bones in his face after calling the victim a “cracker” in Manhattan — marking the second time in two days that people appeared to be randomly targeted in racial tirades against white people, authorities said. In the latest incident, […]

Maybe CUNY Could Hire Vladimir Putin

That student mob harassing David Petraeus would certainly have no problem with being lectured by the Russian president: My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on […]

City University of New York: Where Students Learn to Hate America

Take the most anti-American sector of society (academia) in one of the most liberal cities in the country (New York) and what do you get? An ugly mob of young goons harassing retired Gen. David Petraeus: Gen. Petraeus was hired to teach a course at CUNY. None of their students would have protested if CUNY […]

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