The Other McCain

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

#SouthSudan 3 U.S. Troops Wounded as Rebels Fire on Transport Plane UPDATE: Four U.S. Casualties; Rebels Claim Overthrow of Oil Region Capital

Hey, @BarackObama: Sorry to interrupt your vacation … http://t.co/qjakck55cH #p2 #tcot #SouthSudan @AmPowerBlog — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 21, 2013 Damn. Just . . . damn. KAMPALA, Uganda — Rebel fire hit two U.S. military aircraft responding to the outbreak in violence in South Sudan on Saturday, wounding three U.S. service members and heavily damaging at […]

Today’s Ray Of Hope

— Wombat-socho Yesterday’s Washington Times featured an article by Rowan Scarborough indicating that the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. was going to be removing portraits of Confederate generals such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and hinted that this was more political correctness run wild, as in the case of Duval County, […]

Christian Groups Ask Pentagon to End Connection to ‘Anti-Christian’ SPLC

Domestic terrorism has consequences: The Thomas More Law Center with the Family Research Council (FRC) and 14 other organizations announced yesterday the submission of a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel requesting that the Department of Defense (DOD) ensure that future training materials do not rely on information from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) […]

Ask NY Times Who Deserves More Pay: America’s Troops or Fast-Food Workers?

In an editorial Sunday, the New York York Times argued that America’s troops are being paid too much: Big-ticket weapons like aircraft carriers and the F-35 fighter jet have to be part of any conversation about cutting Pentagon spending to satisfy the mandatory budget reductions known as the sequester. But compensation for military personnel has […]

‘Gender Integration’ = FAIL

This is both hysterically funny and pathetically sad: The Army colonel who wrote an internal email suggesting public affairs officers use photos of “average-looking women” when they need to illustrate stories about female soldiers has stepped down as the leader of an Army study on gender integration. Army spokesman George Wright confirmed on Saturday that […]

Conor Friedersdorf’s Grassy Knoll

Conor Friedersdorf is the Lee Harvey Oswald of journalism — an alienated young man consumed by irrational hatred of his own country. Fortunately, the Secret Service need not worry about Friedersdorf purchasing a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle just now. The focus of his manic obsession is not the current president, but his predecessor. Bush Derangement Syndrome — […]

The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth

The Lonely Conservative: The cover up continues. The State Department and the DOJ are blocking Congress from having access to survivors of the Benghazi attack. They blame it on the ongoing investigation. This is a very familiar method of truth-suppression in D.C.: “I can’t comment because of the ongoing investigation.” Understand that when the federal government […]

U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Warns Fort Hood Troops Against Christians

Obviously, we must beware of those Lutheran extremists: Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. […]

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