The Other McCain

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

Today’s Ray Of Hope: Harvard Gets A Clue

— Wombat-socho “Despair is a sin.” – J.E.Pournelle This should actually have gone up yesterday, but I spent most of the day waiting for my truck to be worked on and am not much interested in trying to make posts from my cellphone, bolshy great phablet that it is. It’s actually better for having waited […]

In The Mailbox, 05.12.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM The First Street Journal: Telling Half The Truth, The Half-Truth, And Nothing But The Half-Truth Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The Inanity Of American Feminism Twitchy: FSU Linebacker, Others Notice Head-shaking Michael Sam/Tim Tebow Comparison RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: No More Excuses For Islamic Monsters American Thinker: Christian […]

Theory 2a: #Benghazi-Bimbo Connection

by Smitty Referring to Ann Althouse’s post on the Zombie Bimbo Revival, of course the answer is Hillary. Vanity Fair also stands to gain from the notoriety, and those two own 70% of the poll. However, Monica’s story is the kind of thing that has probably been in the can for a while, waiting for […]

Benghazi: A Hole in the Tick-Tock

Tick-tock: Journalism jargon for a story that recounts events in chronological order, as if accompanied by the soundtrack of a ticking clock. Last summer, at the request of American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., I spent several days trying to get the White House Press Office to answer a simple question: The President of […]

It’s Come to This

Ace saw this and could scarcely believe it, but it’s true: Some guy with an online gaming site got fired — fired! — for a Tweet — a Tweet! — about L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling: Josh Olin, the community and eSports manager at Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios, is no longer with the company […]

In The Mailbox: 04.30.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Proof Positive: The Cowboy and his Therapist First Street Journal: John Kerry Was Right Doug Powers: Obama’s National Security Adviser Prepped Susan Rice To Blame The Video For Benghazi Attack Twitchy: “A Sermon From A Bigot Who Hates Interracial Couples?” Larry Elder Smacks Spike Lee & The NAACP […]

Barrett Brown Pleads Guilty

September 2012: Barrett Brown vows to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent News from Dallas today: A writer and activist linked to the hacking collective Anonymous pleaded guilty to federal charges on Tuesday alleging that he shared stolen data and posted an online threat saying he would try to harm a federal agent who was investigating him. […]

Lies, Errors, and Tendentious Mischaracterizations of Facts

“Vile Lie-Peddler @Karoli Kuns,” as I have sometimes called her, is one of the members of Team Kimberlin whose harassment of the perjuring bomber’s Enemies List is intermittent, rather than habitual and constant. It has been months since I paid any attention at all to her and, honestly, the whole Kimberlin drama has begun to […]

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