The Other McCain

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

Springfield Gets What It Deserves

When tales of Haitian immigrants eating cats emerged on social media this week, it suddenly focused attention on the city of Springfield, Ohio, but now we are learning there’s more to the story: “Those 20,000 Haitians did not show up overnight or uninvited. Though flown in by the federal government, they were not forced on […]

Illegal Alien From Eritrea on Terror Watch List Arrested in Gates County, N.C.

Do you remember the uproar in 2018 when Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti and certain African countries as fecal depositories? Of course, he was accused of using more blunt language than that, but the point is that he allegedly made this remark in a discussion with Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin about a “bipartisan […]

Haiti’s Zombie Apocalypse: Media Skeptical of Cannibalism Reports

How bad is the situation in Haiti? Three words: Worse than Baltimore. Sure, Baltimore is a violence-plagued hellhole and no sane person would go near it, but as bad as things are in Baltimore, the city hasn’t yet been taken over by gangs of cannibals: The embattled prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, has said […]

#RapeCulture Liberal Logic™

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit today published a commentary on a story that seemed familiar, so I double-checked. Amanda Kijera’s account of being raped in Haiti was originally published at the progressive blog Alternet in April 2010, but has apparently been deleted since then. However, its authenticity can be verified from other contemporaneous sources, e.g., […]

Jared Diamond on Haiti

by Smitty This post is prompted by Freeberg. In my pre-blogging days, when I still had time to read stuff, one object of fascination was Collapse, by Jared Diamond. Here is the relevant Wikipedia. I took my copy to work to show to a colleague, which will keep this post mercifully short. What I recall […]