The Other McCain

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

Tater Tots With Russia Sauce

  Simple recipe: 1 fat bald CNN personality with zero self-awareness; Several dozen of his own words; Combine ingredients. Bake for one minute and six seconds. Laugh.   (Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Apologies for the lack of blogging today. I crawled down through the layers of media bias in coverage of the Ahmaud Arbery […]

Georgia on My Mind

  “It seemed like a good idea at the time” is not a strong defense in a murder trial, and the question everybody seems to be asking in regard to the death of Ahmaud Arbery is why Gregory McMichael and his son thought it was a good idea to grab their guns, jump in their […]

Blue-State Media Continue Wishcasting Coronavirus Epidemic in Red States

  Since mid-March, at least, we have seen endless reiterations of this narrative: “Oh, sure, the virus is devastating Democratic-controlled urban areas now,” the media keep saying, “but just you wait — eventually those Trump voters out in the sticks will pay the price!” Two assumptions are baked into this narrative: Trump is to blame […]

Joe Biden’s Partisan Media Protection Bubble Has Finally Begun Collapsing

  Let’s be clear what’s going on here: If the liberal media really believed that Joe Biden could beat Trump in November, they would have stonewalled Tara Reade’s accusations forever. But as partisan as they are, they are not blind, and anyone who watched Biden stumbling in every media appearance the past two months can […]

‘They Always Blame America First’

  One of the decisive moments of the Cold War, in my opinion, was Jeanne Kirkpatrick’s speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention. In the post-Vietnam era, Democrats had adopted a “human rights” approach to foreign policy that tended toward a stance of moral relativism between Soviet-sponsored Marxist-Leninist regimes and their opponents. A sort of […]

COVID-19: Numbers That Really Matter

Among the dishonest games that the media have played with coronavirus is their habit of reporting cumulative totals of reported cases and deaths as if this is the only metric of the pandemic. Anyone with a functional brain, however, must realize that this is misleading and nearly useless in terms of understanding how the outbreak […]

1993 Video Emerges Supporting Sexual Misconduct Accusation Against Joe Biden

  The hashtag #DropOutBiden began trending on Twitter this morning in the wake of yesterday’s exclusive report by Ryan Grim at The Intercept: A new piece of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reade’s claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss, then-Sen. […]

‘Morning Joe’ Goes Nuts, Screaming About Fox News: ‘They Never Learn!’

  Joe Scarborough is smarter than everybody, so smart that he had foreknowledge of the coronavirus pandemic — “back like in February!” — that would have saved “more people . . . than died in the entire Vietnam tragedy!” Despite this, I have never heard Joe Scarborough criticize Andrew Cuomo for New York’s lack of […]

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