The Other McCain

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

Raphael Warnock: Dindu Nuffin

It is arguably racist to invoke the “dindu nuffin” meme here, but because Raphael Warnock is a Democrat running for Senate, any criticism of him is therefore automatically racist, so it doesn’t matter. It’s probably just a matter of time until we are told Warnock could not possibly have abused his ex-wife because he was […]

Mom Blames Atlanta Police for Her Son Getting Beaten in Massive Brawl

An interesting development on the “social justice” front: A woman whose 13-year-old son was badly beaten after a massive brawl at Atlantic Station last month has filed a complaint against a group of Atlanta police officers who she says did nothing to stop the attack. Iresha Ridley said she has formally asked APD’s office of […]

Holiday News Down Home

How’s your holiday shopping coming along? I’ve been keeping up with folks down home, reading the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and it seems there’s been a lot of festive holiday excitement: One man is in custody after shooting a Walmart employee who confronted him about shoplifting Friday morning in East Point, police said. The shooting occurred just […]

Her Name Is ‘Destiny’

Destiny Allen, to be more precise. Whatever her mother had in mind when she bestowed this name on her, evidently her destiny was jail: A McDonald’s employee is facing charges after police said she got into a fight with one coworker at the Atlanta fast-food restaurant and then hit a second coworker with her car […]

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

What has happened to my native state? Last night on The Other Podcast with John Hoge, I discussed some of the numbers from the presidential vote in Georgia where, we are told, Joe Biden won by about 14,000 votes. How could this happen? Well, you can start by comparing this year’s election to 2016, when […]

Timothy ‘Lil Tim’ Leeks, 22, Charged With Murdering Rapper King Von in Atlanta

Since we reported Friday (“Rapper Killed by ‘Systemic Racism’ and Semiautomatic Pistol Fire, But Mainly …”) on the death of Dayvon Bennett, a/k/a “King Von,” Atlanta police have moved forward with their investigation of the homicide of the Chicago-born rapper. On Saturday, they arrested Timothy “Lil Tim” Leeks, 22, on a felony murder charge. Leeks, […]

Rapper Killed by ‘Systemic Racism’ and Semiautomatic Pistol Fire, But Mainly …

. . . yeah, it was the pistols that killed him: A well-known rapper was one of the people killed in a shooting outside an Atlanta hookah lounge early Friday morning. The shooting happened around 4 a.m. outside of the Monaco Hookah Lounge on Trinity Avenue near Forsyth Street. According to the Georgia Bureau of […]

Georgia on My Mind

Last night Wombat and I were texting and I told him I was trying to ignore this development in my native state: Biden has taken a narrow lead over Trump in Georgia, a state Trump must carry to maintain a pathway to an electoral college win and that no Democrat has carried since 1992, on […]

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