The Other McCain

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

FMJRA 2.0: I’ve Got The Brains, You’ve Got The Looks

— compiled by Wombat-socho Governor Northam Couldn’t Be Setting Up A “Reichstag Fire” Event, Could He? Bacon Time The Political Hat Dark Brightness A View From The Beach EBL Rule 5 Monday: Stacey Dash Animal Magnetism Ninety Miles From Tyranny A View From The Beach Proof Positive EBL You Heard It Here First, Folks EBL […]

White Guilt at 28°F: $50,176 a Year

  Let’s begin with the obvious question: If you wanted to send your children to a not-very-prestigious private liberal arts college, why would you choose to send them to one in Moorhead, Minnesota? Concordia College doesn’t even make the top 100 list at U.S. News, and the annual cost of attendance is $50,176 including room […]

How Desperate Do You Have to Be?

  Even if you could get laid this way, would it be worth it? People on OKCupid are swiping right on climate action — or something? I’ve never used a dating app. But I do know the company has filters so you can get rid of climate deniers when you’re searching for someone, whether it’s […]

‘Living the Dream’ With @_32baby.k9_

  Last weekend’s celebration of Martin Luther King Day in San Antonio, Texas, featured a hiphop concert in the city’s River Walk district: The 19-year-old accused of shooting and killing two men and injuring five others at a River Walk-area bar on Sunday appears to have been scheduled to perform at the music event where […]

False Dilemmas and Real Binaries: Patterns of Error in Logic and Rhetoric

  In his book SJWs Always Lie, Vox Day makes the important distinction between logic (the mental process by which we seek truth) and rhetoric (the language of persuasion). Both logic and rhetoric are skills necessary to statesmanship, because the political leader must first analyze the problems of public policy (logic), then explain the problem […]

Probably Not a Trump Voter

  Wild guess. Just going out on a limb here: A man who had been watching the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Tuesday allegedly choked and punched his girlfriend in a Pennsylvania motel room when she wanted to watch something else, according to charging documents. Lonnie D. Clark, 53, who lives at the […]

In The Mailbox: 01.24.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Even In The Peoples’ Republic Of Illinois EBL: Obama Administration’s Fraudulent FISA Warrants – How Is This Not A Bigger Story? Twitchy: Just When You Thought The Dems’ Impeachment Trial Arguments Couldn’t Get More Desperate & Unhinged Louder With Crowder: President Trump Speaks To The 2020 […]

Why Does @Victoria_Spratt Hate Men?

  We could laugh at the recent headline — “The Dangerous Rise Of Men Who Won’t Date ‘Woke’ Women” — if the sense of panic weren’t indicative of a larger social problem, but there are probably a lot of women as worried as British journalist Vicky Spratt. They have been in a condition of despair […]

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