The Other McCain

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

Democrats and George Stephanopoulos (But I Repeat Myself)

The “revolving door” between the Democrat Party and the liberal media functions as a full-employment program for party operatives, who can collect paychecks from TV networks for doing the same work they would otherwise do for Democrats. Nearly everyone in the major media is a Democrat (e.g., 89% voted for Bill Clinton in 1992) and […]

Sissypuss Conducted A Brief Interview With Thurston The Presidential Lip Fly

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty Sissypuss: “There isn’t much love outside of Tehran for the whole nuclear ‘deal’. Many are calling it a steaming pile of crap.” Thurston: “One sees a steaming pile, while another views a mound of fragant loam. It’s really time we just get past all of this anti-Iranian racism, don’t you […]

In The Mailbox: 09.18.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Who Should Replace Hamilton On The $10 Bill? American Irony: How To Tell Who’s Telling The Truth About The Planned Parenthood Videos Michelle Malkin: Why The View Is Bombing Twitchy: “Warrior Princess” Carly Fiorina Takes Lead In Post-Debate NH Poll; New Poll Has Fiorina Tied With Trump […]

It’s Almost As Though The Whole Thing Were Orchestrated

by Smitty I’m not saying that it’s all deliberate, but. . . But it was Fiorina who stole the show. Excluded from the first debate last month, she finally had an opportunity to introduce herself to potential primary voters outside of Iowa and New Hampshire. Her performance was so impressive she didn’t even bother to […]

Media Deny Reality of Abortion Videos They Have Made a Point of Ignoring

During the Republican debate Wednesday, Carly Fiorina said: “As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape — I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty Dawn broke, and he had to admit the spires of the city were lovely. Flying cars shuttled the rich to their jobs, where they would unplug from the car and jack into the grid that ran the economy across the solar system. The weekend loomed, and they would show up at his farm, […]

The Desert, The Aliens, and Unanswered Questions

— by Wombat-socho Most of you are probably unfamiliar with the National Fantasy Fan Federation, which has been around literally since the dawn of SF fandom. I myself thought it had died off, but evidently it is very much alive, and hard up enough for members and volunteer staff that they made me head of […]

Social Justice, Matt Damon and the Hollywood Fantasy of Prostitution

Am I the only one who remembers what Hollywood did to Tom Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears? Clancy wrote a 1991 Cold War thriller that portrayed a terrorist collaboration between an East German nuclear physicist and Palestinian radicals. However, by the time it emerged as a movie in 2002, the cinematic arbiters of political […]

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