The Other McCain

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

Rioter vs. FedEx Truck: Guess Who Won?

  Here’s a helpful hint for young “social justice” activists — truck drivers have no obligation to surrender to armed hijackers: Authorities said a man was hit and killed by a FedEx truck during protests over George Floyd’s death in St. Louis. A preliminary investigation revealed that the driver of a FedEx double tractor-trailer was […]

‘An Epicenter of Anti-Trans Violence’

  Once the “social justice” bandwagon of identity-politics victimhood gets rolling, everybody starts trying to climb aboard: A black transgender man was fatally shot Wednesday by a police officer in Tallahassee, Florida — at least the third reported officer-involved shooting in Tallahassee in two months. The victim, Tony McDade, 38, was identified as a suspect […]

‘Fact-Based Truth’: MSNBC Demonized Ron DeSantis; Where’s the Apology?

  Mike Barnicle, Morning Joe, Monday, March 23: “Joe, if you talk to a lot of experts — I was fortunate enough to spend most of Friday afternoon around one of the greatest hospitals in the world, Brigham and Women’s here in Boston — you find out their view of what they’re looking at and […]

U.S. Coronavirus Daily Deaths Have Decreased 43% in the Past Four Weeks

  Since peaking April 21, the daily number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 have decreased from an average of more than 2,000 per day to fewer than 1,200. This decrease has been mainly due to sharp reductions in the rate of death in the two hardest-hit states of New York and New Jersey. During the […]

May Is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Crazy People Are Dangerous

  Last week, a shocking video went viral showing a young black man brutally beating an elderly white man. James Woods posted the video to his Twitter account, and even President Trump took notice. Online sleuths using face-recognition software quickly identified the suspect as 20-year-old Jaden Hayden, and linked him to social-media accounts with bizarre […]

‘A Team of Editors’

  This is going to become the stuff of legend, so I wanted to take note of it: The New York Times decided to devote the entirety of its front page to a list of 1,000 names of COVID-19 victims. It’s Memorial Day weekend, and we are at or near the 100,000 mark in terms […]

Further Developments

  The October 2018 murder of Univerity of Utah student Lauren McCluskey is a topic I’ve blogged about before (“An Apparently Consensual Relationship”), but I hadn’t followed further developments in the case. The man who murdered McCluskey, convicted sex offender Melvin Rowland, shot himself to death a few hours after the murder, and you might […]

Dining at the Longbranch

(Click photo to see full-size) (This is the second of two parts. Click here to read the first part.) “Hey, somebody told me you guys were serving beer?” “Outside service only,” said the guy who had come out of the kitchen. “We’re closed now, though.” “When do you open?” I asked. “Three o’clock.” “What time […]

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