The Other McCain

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

Guess Who Went Viral at Best Ranger?

FORT BENNING, GEORGIA Haley Britzky is a reporter for the military web site Task & Purpose, and she happened to be at an event in Saturday’s Day Stakes rotations of Best Ranger Competition where Staff Sergeant McCain showed the meaning of the slogan “Improvise, Adapt, Overcome” and, at the same time, created a new motto: […]

Best Ranger: Surviving Day One

FORT BENNING, GEORGIA After the 19-mile night march, which ended after midnight, Team 41 was in 12th place in the 38th annual Best Ranger competition. The first day’s cut is at 28 teams, so our boys have survived to compete another day, beginning at 9 a.m. at Todd Field. Day One was a seesaw struggle. […]

GO TEAM 41!

FORT BENNING, GEORGIA The 38th Annual Best Ranger Competition kicks off this morning at 5:30 a.m., and I probably don’t have to explain why my wife and I are here cheering for Team 41. Staff Sergeant McCain and his partner, Sergeant First Class Peterson, will be among 51 teams competing in the three-day event that […]

In The Mailbox: 04.07.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho I hate to say this, but I can’t keep this up. I’m putting in 11-hour days in the tax mines through the end of the season, and when I get back to the hotel, all I want to do is sleep. So this is going on hiatus until the 20th when […]

‘Gun Violence’ Update

Yesterday we told you about the suspects arrested in the weekend massacre in Sacramento that killed six and wounded 12 others. Now there’s an important update to the story from Breitbart: The Los Angeles Times admitted on Wednesday that Sunday’s Sacramento shooting was likely an exchange of gunfire between gang or street crime rivals rather than a […]

Unspeakable Atrocities in Ukraine

In the days immediately after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, I was desperately seeking information on the tactical situation near Kyiv, but it was impossible to gather anything useful from the news accounts. Most journalists seem to know nothing about military tactics or strategy, and so the reports we were getting were mostly useless, […]

In The Mailbox: 04.05.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Do You Really Expect Criminals To Obey The Honor System? EBL: Red Dawn, also, Support Amber Athey & Denounce The Cowards At WMAL/Cumulus Media! Twitchy: Mitt Romney Was Against Judge Jackson Before He Was For Her, also, PuffHo Writer Trying To Raise […]

Probably Not a Trump Voter

Sunday night, the rapper Tyler “the Creator” Okonma performed a concert in downtown Sacramento at the Golden 1 Center arena. Some hours after that concert ended, about 2 a.m., gunfire erupted outside a bar two blocks from the arena. More than 100 rounds were fired, leaving 12 wounded and six people shot dead: Johntaya Alexander, […]

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