The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 12.24.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Alice Jones Webb on Women and Shooting Director Blue: A Day Crossing The Atlantic to America 1760 EBL: MAGA: Make Midterms Great Again , God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen in Old English, and Aimee Carrero and Spirited Twitchy: Ratio Alert! PBS Lets […]

Make Nakatomi Plaza Great Again

Hard to believe it’s been 37 years since NYPD Detective John McClane saved his estranged wife Holly from the evil terrorist Hans Gruber, a saga memorialized in the classic documentary Die Hard, which all good patriotic Americans know is the best Christmas movie ever. Pray for everyone inside Nakatomi Plaza ? pic.twitter.com/r4PWOuJnhG — Agreeable Greg […]

Journalism, Credibility and ‘Experts’

Brittany Bernstein at National Review notes: NPR’s standards chief, Tony Calvin, had to issue an unusual bit of guidance to staff this week: stop quoting Carl Tobias. The instruction came after Calvin found NPR reporters had quoted the University of Richmond law professor 77 times on a variety of topics. “If Tobias’s name sounds familiar, […]

In The Mailbox: 12.22.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho News – Senator Mike Lee introduces the Cartel Marque & Reprisal Reauthorization Act. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: A Day in the Life of a Pompeian Slave, The Great Feminization, AI Time Travel – Arriving at Ellis Island 1907, A Walking Tour of Andersonville Prison […]

Rule 5 Sunday: In Honor Of Alice Cooper

— compiled by Wombat-socho One of the anime that got me seriously interested in the medium was Gunsmith Cats, an anime about a pair of fun-loving gals who run a gun shop in Chicago. The protagonist, Rally Vincent, was not only a hot babe who could shoot, but she could drive like a bat out […]

FMJRA 2.0: A Week In The Ruts

— compiled by Wombat-socho So the Bravos came to town and utterly wrecked our shit. Jim Kaat held them to two runs in the opener, but Steve Renko and Pat Dobson got beaten like red-headed stepchildren; game 2 was a 15-10 slugfest, but it really wasn’t that close. Fortunately, the Twins were next up, and […]

Thoughts From a ‘Heritage American’

Perhaps you’re not on X (formerly known as Twitter) and therefore have been spared the quarrel over “Heritage Americans.” Don’t know who coined that term or in what context it originated, but it seems to be a critique of the “proposition nation” ideology that George Will did so much to promote. Far be it from […]

‘Yes, We Stole the Election. Oopsie.’

A brutal fact-check from the land of Fani Willis: Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election. The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming […]

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