The Other McCain

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

Breaking News: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Is Still an Angry, Dishonest Partisan Liar

The important background facts you should know about Ed Schultz: He was a sportscaster until he was 38 and began his talk-radio career attempting to be a conservative Rush Limbaugh imitator, failed at that and then re-invented himself as a “progressive” host, which provided the platform by which Ed got an MSNBC show in 2009. […]

Verdict in Florida, Violence in Oakland, Insanity in Media, Ignorance Everywhere

Will the Zimmerman Trial Verdict Spark L.A.-Style Riots? — Philadelphia Magazine, June 25 Marxist protesters in California display posters bearing the logo of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “History interests the radical elite only as it can be used to foment anti-capitalist passions, and they cherry-pick history to fit their own leftist interpretations, so […]

Brett Kimberlin: The ‘Musician-Activist’ That @MonicaHesse Wants You to Forget

1992: Gary Trudeau’s cartoon strip frequently cited Brett Kimberlin’s claims The Prisoner and the Politician Brett Coleman Kimberlin, a convicted marijuana smuggler, says he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle in the early 1970s. — Mark Singer, The New Yorker, Oct. 5, 1992 “In any case, it was [Cody] Shearer who, during the 1992 presidential campaign, […]

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 […]

Fight the Fight You’re Fighting

Blame it all on Wilmot and his damned Proviso. Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon has a profile of Jack Hunter, a.k.a “The Southern Avenger”: A close aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) who co-wrote the senator’s 2011 book spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist, raising questions about […]

The Politics of Feeling

“You can’t do that.”    But it makes me feel good. “It’s against the law.”    Then we should change the law. “Why?”    Because it makes me feel good. “Who cares about your feelings?”    Hater. Why does the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” appear in our Declaration of Independence? Most people don’t know […]

‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins “A confidential message from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, reproduced in [Diana] West’s new book, told [White House aide Harry] Hopkins that a ‘continuing’ investigation had discovered that Russian diplomat (and Comintern agent) Vasily Zarubin had made a payment to U.S. Communist Party official Steve Nelson to help […]

‘Take That Hill’

My 14-year-old son stayed home from school today sick, and put the TV on the Military Channel where, among other shows, we watched a documentary about the Battle of Hill 875 in Vietnam. To call this a battle is something of a misnomer: It was a horrible blunder, a senseless slaughter caused by poor strategy […]

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