The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox, 10.06.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho Alabama and the Nationals lost and I overslept. Screw the news. Doug Powers: Fanboy Of Scaremonger Al Gore Accuses Conservative Of Scaremongering About Ebola Twitchy: Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Celebrates Liberian Ebola Patient – “He’s Our Citizen Now” American Power: Thomas Duncan Has Died – First US Ebola Patient, Lied About […]

Simone de Beauvoir, Pervert

One of the things they don’t teach in Women’s Studies classes is that pioneering feminist author Simone de Beauvoir was a pervert who was fired from a teaching job for seducing teenage girls: In 1943, Simone de Beauvoir was fired for behavior leading to the corruption of a minor. Once again, the apologists of de […]

Never Let a Crisis, Etc.

Democrat shamelessness is highly contagious: After [ABC “This Week”] host  George Stephanopoulos highlighted how “Nate Silver’s team at FiveThirtyEight gives the GOP a 59% of retaking the Senate” [former Obama administration official] Van Jones shamefully urged Democrats to use Ebola as a talking point in 2014: We can’t let the Republicans get away with some […]

Jerry Seinfeld Accidentally Explains The Obama Administration

by Smitty Alternate title: “If only Barack Obama had delivered this for his Nobel Prize acceptance. . .” I shared the clip a second time with Mrs. Other Smitty this morning, and I realized that Seinfeld was really explaining how this country could possibly be duped by a no-talent rodeo clown. See if you agree: […]

Rule 5 Sunday: The Consolations Of The Elbows

— compiled by Wombat-socho Normally on weekends when I’m away from the keyboard due to social obligations and/or work, I do the FMJRA first and leave the Rule 5 post for whenever I can get to it -on one particularly horrible occasion, Wednesday. After last night’s excruciating eighteen-inning playoff game between the Nationals and Giants, […]

Think Progress Arm-Waving

Arm-waving is a technique frequently used by the Left that needs to be called out more often. The technique involves hyping up a make-believe controversy when someone on the Right — a conservative journalist or Republican politician — says something that is arguably true and not necessarily offensive to anyone, yet is stated in a […]

They Want to Kill Us All

People need to understand what this means: Islamic State militants have released a video depicting the murder of British aid convoy volunteer Alan Henning, three weeks after warning that he would be the next to die. Henning is the fourth western hostage to have been killed by the group, following the filmed beheadings of US […]

Don’t Do It, Ben Affleck!

Don’t make me take sides with Bill Maher! Bill Maher and author and neuroscientist Sam Harris battled actor/director Ben Affleck on Real Time on Friday concerning Maher’s recent remarks criticizing Islam. “Why are you so hostile about this?” Maher asked Affleck. “It’s gross, it’s racist,” Affleck replied. “It’s so not,” Maher insisted, though Affleck compared […]

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