The Other McCain

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

21 Books – Conclusion

— Wombat-socho Von Ryan’s Express, David Westheimer ” …if only one man gets out, it’s a victory.” I have to admit, I like the movie version of this book a lot better, even though the book does a better job of explaining why Ryan is such a martinet and also has a sequel, which the […]

Diana West Dissed by David Horowitz?

Regular readers will remember the shocking revelation — “‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent?” — from Diana West’s new book, American Betrayal. Now comes disturbing news from Diana that David Horowitz’s FrontPage Magazine has removed a favorable review of her book from that site and replaced it with what […]

21 Books, Part II

— by Wombat-socho Continuing the list of books that had a major influence on my life. Comments, suggestions and book plugs welcome, as always. A couple of the more noteworthy suggestions from last week’s post were Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History (oddly, the Kindle edition is more expensive than the paperback) and The Other Side […]

21 Books, Part I

— by Wombat-socho I’ve been somewhat pressed for time this week, and mostly reading The Last Lion, so this is what you get for a book post. Originally published in various parts at my LiveJournal and in somewhat different form at Everything2. If you’re looking for the Great Books, I’m afraid you’re going to be […]

IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HUMANITY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.

— by Wombat-socho In this installment of the weekly book post, we’re going to take a look at two sets of novels which are set in the aforementioned Grim Future, but which have very different approaches to the Crapsack Universe humanity finds itself in, whether it’s Twenty Minutes Into The Future or forty millenia hence. […]

Notorious Bush-Era Anti-War Protester Adam Kokesh Busted on Drug Charge

In 2007, fringe nutjob Adam Kokesh was arrested on Capitol Hill. In reporting the news, the Washington Post has rather deliberately obscured the reality of what kind of kook Adam Kokesh is, but those of us who first became aware of Kokesh as the poster boy for “Iraq Veterans Against the War” are unlikely to […]

From West Virginia To Wroclaw

— by Wombat-socho This week’s book post unfortunately has nothing to do with Gettysburg or Independence Day (because all my relevant books are in storage), though I do recommend that you pick up Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels if you haven’t already read it; Gingrich and Forstchen’s Gettysburg is also worth reading (along with its […]

Lost In (Divided) America

— by Wombat-socho It is 2040, and both New York and Washington are radioactive ruins. Chicago and Detroit have been reduced to rubble and abandoned; Pittsburgh and Phoenix are infested with deadly plague. In the new capitol of Seattle, alcohol is outlawed, and as the call to evening prayers sounds throughout the city, veiled women […]

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