The Other McCain

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

SCOTUS ObamaCare Office-Pool Bet

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION The thing about being dug in on a story — in the six weeks since May 17, I’ve done 61 entries in “The Kimberlin Files” — is that you ignore a lot of what would otherwise be Urgent Breaking News. Late last night, I was checking Ace of Spades HQ, and […]

‘The Gaped Crusader’: Brett Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser Stalked and Taunted SWATting Victim Patrick Frey

Neal Rauhauser: Democrat consultant at 2010 Netroots Nation conference FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION A Democratic political consultant harassed the victim of a SWATting hoax, employing the online alias “The Gaped Crusader” to taunt popular conservative blogger Patrick “Patterico” Frey and others. Neal Rauhauser became obsessed with Frey during the 2011 Anthony Weiner cybersex scandal, declaring […]

Instapundit Recovered From The Incident

by Smitty As I was joking on Twitter earlier: Instapundit holding M-16 after bizarre nuclear accident at Oak Ridge shrinks him by 50%: lonelyconservative.com/2012/06/brett-… @rsmccain #SadButTrue — Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) June 27, 2012 He has also noticed the S.A.L.V.E. project, which can also be purchased in dead tree format here.

Best Paragraph I’ve Read All Year

by Smitty Randy Barnett’s retrospective on the ObamaCare decision buildup over at Volokh is awesome, but if you have only time for one paragraph, read this: I especially want to thank Orin Kerr for his unstinting and unflagging skepticism from day one. I admit that, at times, I found his posts personally annoying, and my […]

Ain’t Braggin’ If You Can Do It

by Smitty Via Mataconis and Andrew Sullivan is a Yet Another Post Bemoaning Internet Communication (YAPBIC): Enter?—?ambiguously?—?Twitter. The strict 140-character limit (shorter if you want retweets), established at the length of a text message, has defined the service since its launch in 2006. The tweet is a literary form of Oulipian arbitrariness, and the straitjacket […]

Conspiracy Theorist ‘Qritiq’ Conspires Against Neal Rauhauser’s Targets

Neal Rauhauser at the ‘Netroots Nation’ Conference FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION How stupid does “Qritiq” think we are, huh? The day after Aaron Walker is SWATted, why would Qritiq (who, several people claim, is actually a New York City schoolteacher named Lane Lipton) decide to publish contact information clearly aimed at getting complaints lodged against […]

Aaron Walker SWATted?

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION The escalating insanity has apparently reached new heights. Just when Aaron Walker achieved a court victory — this:     Readers will excuse the intensity of my reaction, but I simply cannot imagine that any criminal would be so stupidly overconfident to attempt such a thing, at a time when there […]

Healing Butt-Hurt: Theory and Practice

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION Today Mrs. Other McCain got the news that we had been turned down on a rental application for what we had hoped would be our new home, which is rather a bitter pill, considering that we now have less than five days to find a new home. Selah. It has been five weeks […]

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