The Other McCain

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

Rahmanullah Lakanwal ‘Should Have Never Been Allowed to Come Here’

Hindsight is always 20/20: The alleged Afghan terrorist accused of executing one National Guard soldier and critically wounding another just blocks from the White House should never have been allowed into the US, the CIA director said Thursday. Rahmanullah Lakanwal and his family were welcomed into the US four years ago after serving in a […]

Who Is Paying the ‘Racist Trolls’ Who Disagree With Alonso Gurmendi?

“Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is a Fellow in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology. His work focuses on the history of the international regulation of war and political violence, from a postcolonial perspective. Prior to joining LSE, Alonso worked at King’s College London, Oxford University, the University of […]

Are You Tired of All This #Winning Yet?

The Gaza War began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, then sent 6,000 terrorists across the border, where they murdered nearly 1,200 innocent Israelis and kidnapped another 250. Joe Biden was president at the time, and respect for the United States was at an all-time low. For the […]

How to Become a Good Communist

JoAnne Deborah Byron, a/k/a JoAnne Chesimard, a/k/a Assata Shakur was a Communist, a murderer and a terrorist. She was still a fugitive from justice when she died Thursday in Havana, Cuba: Cuban officials on Friday said that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after […]

KiwiFarms Sues U.K. and It’s Awesome

Regular readers here know that I’ve often praised the online forum Kiwi Farms as an invaluable source of information on “LOLcows,” which is their term for idiots who make fools of themselves online, as I explained in October 2023: Some of us are old enough to remember when, 15 or 20 years ago, Silicon Valley […]

After Alaska Summit Meeting, Putin Confirms Ukraine War Was Biden’s Fault

We all knew this, of course, and Trump has been saying it for three years, but now we have it directly from Vladimir Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the war between Russia and Ukraine would never have begun if President Donald Trump were president in 2022 instead of then-President Joe Biden. Putin’s […]

The Worst News Network on the Planet Has Covered Itself in Shame This Week

For the past couple of days, I’ve been watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and — dear merciful God! — there are no words to describe how awful it is. On the other hand, the attempt to describe it gave me an excuse to beat that dead dog again with a 1,300-word opus: Among […]

How Trump Ruined the Media’s Weekend

Oh, sure, it was a bad Saturday for the Ayatollah, but try to imagine what it was like for the news media. Suppose you’re the lead national security reporter for the Washington Post or the New York Times. It’s a Saturday in June, so maybe you’re out at the beach for the weekend, having a […]

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