The Other McCain

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

Why Do Democrats Want a 9/11-Style Capitol Riot ‘Truth Commission’?

They can’t quit him. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are unable to let go of their “Orange Man Bad” obsession with Donald Trump. That’s why, as I watched MSNBC this morning (so you don’t have to), they were headlining the New York state attorney general’s criminal investigation of Trump’s business organization. In […]

The Streisand Effect and the Results of Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day

Three months ago, almost everyone had forgotten about Rebekah Jones, and so most people didn’t pay too much attention when Christian Pushaw published a 2,000-word exposé in Human Events: THE “FLORIDA COVID-19 WHISTLEBLOWER” SAGA IS A BIG LIE Pushaw’s article was published less than a month after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, when the Biden […]

Mask Fetishists Mourn End of an Era

Joe Biden was having a terrible week and, I suspect, James Carville must have advised the White House that it was a bad look for them to be insisting that people keep wearing masks even after they’d been vaccinated against COVID-19. Also, what else could explain why the American Federation of Teachers — the radical […]

David French Gets Paid to Hate You

Ace of Spades points out that The Dispatch, “[f]ounded by conservative thought leaders Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, and David French,” has been avidly defending Facebook’s ban of President Trump, without disclosing that The Dispatch “has a financial relationship” with Facebook. In case you’ve forgotten, The Dispatch was launched in late 2019 and, by early 2020, […]

Truth or Satire? It’s Getting Harder to Tell

January headline from The Babylon Bee: CNN Unveils New Format Where Hosts Just Watch Fox News And Yell At It This is awfully close to describing what’s happened to CNN in recent months. Once Biden was inaugurated, the network lost its raison d’être of producing anti-Trump propaganda. Ratings for CNN have evaporated since January and, […]

Is Black-on-Black Crime a ‘Myth’?

Eugene Volokh seemed to be puzzled by another law professor’s claim: An article by a criminal law professor [April 22] in the Columbus Dispatch included this assertion: “The reality is that Black-on-Black crime is a myth, and that Black and white people routinely commit crimes at similar rates, but Black people are overwhelmingly targeted for […]

Media: The Enemy of the People

Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics remarks on Twitter: Hard to imagine a more divisive, sensational, context-less headline. A textbook example of the media being the enemy of the people. The story in question is by the Associated Press: Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict […]

Nothing Can Placate the BLM Riot Mob, and ‘Journalists’ Are Part of the Mob

No matter what the facts are, the Narrative must always triumph — this is what “journalism” means in the 21st century: Reporters loudly objected to the use of the word “riot” by a Minnesota police chief after his officers were assaulted and injured by bricks, rocks, and frozen soda cans, he explained. The chief defended […]

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