The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 12.06.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #460 357 Magnum: Brazil Moving Toward More Armed Citizens EBL: NASA Wants An All-Female Mars Mission Crew – To Prevent Sex During The Trip? Twitchy: The UN’s Latest Fail Should Be The Final Nail In Their Corrupt, Feckless […]

‘Be Not Conformed to This World’

The words of the Apostle Paul came to mind this morning when I read John Nolte’s article, “Conformity Killed the Weekly Standard”: The easiest way to sum up the failure of the Weekly Standard is this: Why would anyone on the right offer financial support to the Weekly Standard when CNN will call us a racist for free? And […]

Catch and Release: MS-13 Killer Avoided Deportation Because of Obama Judge

Henri Salvador Gutierrez (left); Judge Mario Sturla (right). In September 2016, a lawyer named Mario Sturla was appointed as a federal immigration judge by President Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch. Sturla is himself an immigrant, a native of the Dominican Republic who graduated from Brown University in 2003 and got his law degree at Yeshiva […]

In The Mailbox: 12.05.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho Sorry about the lack of posting yesterday; was under the weather. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Is The Weekly Standard Doomed? Twitchy: Daily Show Catches Heat For Using 41’s Funeral To Mock Trump Louder With Crowder: How To Tweet Like Alexandria Occasional Cortex In Five Easy Steps, also, Senator Hirono Claims Democrats […]

‘The Title IX Reign of Terror’

Professor Dennis Gouws (left); Dean Anne Herzog (right). Springfield College in Massachusetts is a small private liberal arts school with about 3,200 students. Perhaps best known as the place where James Naismith invented basketball, Springfield recently became the site of a feminist dean’s persecution of Professor Dennis Gouws. This case illustrates what Peter W. Wood, […]

The Bankruptcy of #NeverTrump

  This morning, I noted the “Get Woke, Go Broke” factor in the failure of Mic-dot-com — which burned through $60 million in startup capital and was sold for $5 million — and a similar observation may be made about the woes of the Weekly Standard: The Weekly Standard is not expected to survive going […]

Digital Fire Sale: ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’ Wiping Out SJW Online Media

Making “social justice” part of your business model is never a good idea, and some startling numbers are starting to come out: It was around this time last year that things were starting to look a little dicey for the media industry’s once breathlessly-hyped digital unicorns. Both BuzzFeed and Vice made news for substantially missing […]

Buzzword Alert: ‘Neoliberalism’

Over the weekend, transgender activists sent out a hoax email falsely claiming that radical feminist Meghan Murphy had cancelled her scheduled Jan. 10 talk at the Vancouver Public Library. Some Canadian outlets were deceived by that email, didn’t bother checking with either Murphy or the library, and ran with the false story. While I was […]

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