The Other McCain

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

Bradley Manning Hasn’t Been Shot Yet

There was a time when a traitor in the ranks of the U.S. Army would have been in front of a firing squad within 48 hours of his apprehension. I happened to be at Fort Meade today on other business, which included a lecture about concerns for “operational security.” When it was time to get lunch, I was […]

Lindsey Stone of Plymouth, Mass., Has ‘Been Placed on Unpaid Leave Pending the Results of an Internal Investigation’

“This is just us, being the douchebags that we are, challenging authority in general. . . . OBVIOUSLY we meant NO disrespect to people that serve or have served in our military.” — Lindsey Stone of Plymouth, Massachusetts Alas, Lindsey, it wasn’t quite as obvious to others as it was to you, eh? While I […]

Awesome: Hamas Leader Destroyed by Twitter Message, Israeli Air Strike

But mainly, yeah, it was the air strike: Hamas has said that Israeli air strike in Gaza which killed Ahmed Jabari, the head of its military wing, “has opened the gates of hell” . . . Jabari, who is the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years […]

Is Krauthammer Right?

The Great Brain says the Obama administration used David Petraeus’s sex scandal to compel him “to give the administration line” about Benghazi in the CIA director’s Sept. 12 testimony: This is a very serious accusation, and one I am certainly not prepared to endorse until we have some clear evidence or testimony to support it. […]

Bad Memories of Bayshore Boulevard

(Left to right) Natalie Khawam, Gen. David Petraeus, Dr. Scott Kelley, Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus at a party in Tampa. It was August and a hurricane was hovering off the Florida coast that Monday afternoon in Tampa when I set out to find Jim Antle. The senior editor of The American Spectator had my […]

If You Were Saying to Yourself, ‘This Petraeus Scandal Isn’t Crazy Enough …’

You’re going to love this news: Jill Kelley — whose report of threatening e-mails led to revelations of Gen. David Petraeus’s affair with Paula Broadwell — has a “psychologically unstable” twin sister. And when the sister needed a reference in her child custody case, Petraeus provided it: The four-star general’s letter to the court — written […]

Apparently, Everybody Involved in the Petraeus Scandal Is a Swinging Sex Freak

Suggested title for Gen. Petraeus’s memoirs: “Dear Penthouse Forum …” minx.cc/?post=334883 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 13, 2012 The CIA chief, his West Point-educated girlfriend, an FBI agent, the “social liaison” at McDill AFB, the top general in Afghanistan — they’re all as freewheeling and frisky as college juniors on Spring Break in Cabo. Gabriel Malor at AOSHQ […]

Ace of Spades: Eric Holder Is Obviously Lying About the Petraeus Affair

The logic is impeccable: Holder’s FBI discovers the CIA chief is dangerously compromised and doesn’t tell the President? Bovine excrement! Therefore, the alternative hypothesis that Holder was negligent in not telling the President is merely an interesting counterfactual along the lines of, “What if Lee’s army had AK-47s at Gettysburg?” We know Holder is lying. The […]

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