The Other McCain

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

Wes Pruden, R.I.P.

  He was 83 years old, and died after spending a full workday in the offices of the Washington Times. He was the last of the old-time newspapermen, and the word “journalist” was prohibited from appearing in the pages of the Times during his tenure as editor-in-chief. That rule was one of several variations from […]

In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Bastille Day 2019 Twitchy: Fauxcahontas Has A Temper Tantrum After Trying To Shame SecDef Nominee Mark Esper Louder With Crowder: Talcum X Praises Anti-ICE Antifa Firebomber, Calls Him A “Martyr” RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES Adam Piggott: Emily Hart Dies In E-Scooter Accident American Greatness: Trump Administration Moves […]

In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Why Do People Refuse To Learn From The Past? Bacon Time: Big Shoutout To Beretta EBL: Ilhan Omar Making Light Of Al Qaeda And Hating Those Joooos Twitchy: Did Rachel Maddow intend To Make Ilhan Omar Look Ridiculous During Interview About Impeaching Trump? Louder With Crowder: […]

Teenage Girl Nearly Decapitated by Jealous Loser She Met on Internet

  Bianca Devins was 17, and just graduated high school last month, but she had tens of thousands of followers on her Instagram account and was apparently popular on the Discord platform. She’s dead now. Photos of Bianca’s bloody corpse were posted online by the guy who cut her throat so deeply she was nearly […]

Blunder or Genius?

  ?John Hinderaker has called President Trump’s Sunday morning tweet-storm “a blunder of epic proportions” — an “own-goal,” as they say in soccer — and maybe it is, but Steven Hayward points out: With a wedge opening up between the Democratic Party leadership and the noisy Four Freshmen reps . . . Trump has now forced […]

Professor William Jacobson Will Speak at DOJ ‘Combatting Anti-Semitism’ Summit

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice will host a “Summit on Combatting Anti-Semitism” that will include a presentation by Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson, whose site Legal Insurrection became a spectacular success after he read my “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog.” Of course, I don’t claim credit for his success, but […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Baba Fumika

— compiled by Wombat-socho Thanks to the Daley Gator for tweeting about this young Japanese actress this past Thursday! If you’re a fan of the Kamen Rider movies & TV shows, she made her TV debut as the enemy Medic in Kamen Rider Drive, and since then has appeared in two movies in the franchise. […]

Aziz Ansari ‘More Thoughtful’ Now (But It’s Still Not Safe to Date Abby Nierman)

Aziz Ansari (left) and his accuser Abby Nierman (right). In January 2018, after an account of a young woman’s bad date with comedian Aziz Ansari went viral, I immediately recognized that “Grace” (as the article called her) did not deserve anonymity. She was not the victim of a crime, and if Ansari’s treatment of her […]

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