The Other McCain

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

What Part of ‘Drop the Gun’ Is So Difficult for Some People to Understand?

Watching the police bodycam video of this incident, I was struck by how much of what we call “race” is actually about culture. A police officer in Rantoul, Illinois — a town of 12,000 people, about 15 miles north of Champaign, and 120 miles south of Chicago — approaches a car that he recognizes as […]

In The Mailbox: 06.29.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Lies, Damn Lies, & Academia EBL: So what is happening in the Ukraine War now?, Blade Runner 1929, and Supreme Court Rules Harvard’s Racist Admission Policies Are Unconstitutional Twitchy: Cervical cancer trust wants vaginas to be called “bonus holes”, Fauxcahontas takes a […]

CBS Evening News — !!! — Reports About Hunter Biden Influence Scandal Cover-Up

“What was Hunter selling? What skill or expertise did this crack-addicted loser possess that might be worth $5 million to a Chinese ‘business partner’? The only thing Hunter Biden had to sell — his only marketable value — was his father’s political influence. Period, end of sentence.” — what I said on Saturday Excuse me for […]

In The Mailbox: 06.28.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Saint Irenaeus of Lyons Twitchy: CA Senate Passes Bill Allowing 12-Year-Olds To Consent To Castration & Mutilation, School Board Gets Brutally Fact-Checked On Woke Bathroom Policy, and NBC News Unleashes Orwellian Spin On AZ Gov. Hobbs’ Radical LGBTWTFBBQ Executive Orders Louder With Crowder: […]

Your ‘Private’ Messages Aren’t Private

Let’s start with the obvious: The reason that Pedro Gonzales’s “private” messages got leaked is because he supports Ron DeSantis for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and we may presume the leaker supports Donald Trump. This is not to defend Gonzales or anything he said in the messages; it’s just acknowledging the reality that politics […]

Ironic Journalism

Reuters decided to go digging up the past, and perhaps didn’t calculate the possible consequences of what they would find: In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people… […]

In The Mailbox: 06.27.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Anyone Who Disagrees With Me Is A Fascist, Australian Edition EBL: A cholesterol-lowering alternative to statins reduces deaths from heart disease?, also, Fun Fact: You’d have to run a pizza stove for 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry’s private […]

The Moose Is Loose

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON “There’s one!” Bob said, as we drove through the base on our way from the airport. I squinted, but didn’t see the moose until we were within about 30 yards. It was a young cow, not even full-grown yet, but certainly it stood more than six feet tall. A full-grown moose can […]

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