The Other McCain

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Noonan Unexpectedly Conscious

Posted on | June 9, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

For reasons of time and fair use, I’ll confine myself to mocking the first three paragraphs of Peggy’s latest:

Noonan Smitty
What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition. The unions and their allies put everything they had into “one of their most aggressive grass-roots campaigns ever,” as the Washington Post’s Paul Whoriskey and Dan Balz reported in a day-after piece. Fifty thousand volunteers made phone calls and knocked on 1.4 million doors to get out the vote against Gov. Scott Walker. Mr. Walker’s supporters, less deeply organized on the ground, had a considerable advantage in money. Holy lagging indicator, Batwoman! You’ve finally realized that the last three years have happened. The next thing you know, Peggy, you’re going to locate the clue that the whole Progressive welfare state is kaput! Auto-Cloward-Pivened! Toast!
And let’s be careful about that “considerable advantage” hooey:

In short, it is not clear the left was outspent in its attempts to reverse Gov. Walker’s reforms. And the widely-repeated claim that the left was outspent by more than 7-to-1 in the most recent recall election is clearly false.
But organization and money aren’t the headline. The shift in mood and assumption is. The vote was a blow to the power and prestige not only of the unions but of the blue-state budgetary model, which for two generations has been: Public-employee unions with their manpower, money and clout, get what they want. If you move against them, you will be crushed. Fair statement. You could note that Walker didn’t do anything that wasn’t part of his campaign platform when he ran for governor in the first place. That is, the notion that the blue state model ist kaput didn’t just occur suddenly in Wisconsin. There has been a groundswell. The Tea Party. That outfit you love to hate, Peggy.
Mr. Walker was not crushed. He was buoyed, winning by a solid seven points in a high-turnout race. Is it such a shock that a political leader can run on common sense and courage and find support in the electorate? Is your contempt for the hoi polloi so deep, Peggy? I’m extrapolating from this one paragraph to the whole of your condescending body of columns, but there it is. I don’t think that you grasp that the Internet has changed everything.

Someone continue the fisk and email me a link.

Category: Progressivism

TEN MILLION HITS! and Presenting … Our Top 20 Most Commented Posts

Posted on | June 9, 2012 | 41 Comments

Celebrating Smitty’s return from Afghanistan, September 2011

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Remember when an alleged “singer,” performing under the name Champagne Dream, recorded an unspeakably wretched version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”?

Alas, the video has been removed from the Internet, so that readers can no longer experience the weird combination of insane laughter and projectile vomiting that Champagne’s performance invariably produced. More than two years later, however, the April 2010 blog post about that bizarre musical monstrosity — “VIDEO: Hate Crime Caught on Camera!” — retains the all-time record for the most-commented post in the history of TheOtherMcCain.com.

We just recorded our 10 millionth hit — 6.7 million since Smitty switched us from the original Blogspot format to the custom WordPress site on New Year’s Day 2010 — and, in commemoration of this occasion, I asked Smitty to compile the list of Top 20 Most-Commented Posts:

  1. April 24, 2010: VIDEO: Hate Crime Caught on Camera! — 438 comments
  2. May 10, 2010: Because I’m Not That Stupid — 277 comments
  3. ‘The Demagogic Bloggers on the Right’
  4. REPORT: Aaron Walker Arrested After Maryland Hearing on Kimberlin Case UPDATE: Walker Now Released
  5. The Longest Comment Thread in the History of This Blog? Go Ahead, Guess.
  6. Nov. 5, 2011: ‘F– Michelle Fields!’ — Interview With Reporter Harassed at Occupy DC Protest — 220 comments
  7. ‘Not Only Wrong, But Dangerous’
  8. Will Libertarians Decry The Boston Tea Party?
  9. May 22, 2012: Brett Kimberlin Saga Takes a Bizarre Turn, Forcing Me to Leave Maryland
  10. Death Toll Now Reported at 91 in Norway ‘Christian Fundamentalist’ Terror Attack UPDATE: Video Added; Gunman Posed as Policeman and Boasted, ‘I’ll Kill You All’
  11. When Phyllis Schlafly Speaks the Truth, Democrats Call It ‘Extremism’
  12. Aug. 4, 2010: Marcela Hoeven Bikini Scandal?
  13. Nov. 4, 2011: #OWS Protesters Attempt to Storm AFP Defending the American Dream Summit –138 comments
  14. ALASKA SENATE COUNTDOWN TODAY UPDATE: MURKOWSKI CONCEDES!
  15. Brett Kimberlin’s Heiress Aunt Helping Fund His Tax-Exempt Harassment
  16. Sept. 18, 2011: HOLY. FREAKING. CRAP. — 139 comments
  17. Newsweek Intern Attempts to Describe Hayek’s Road to Serfdom: Massive FAIL
  18. April 10, 2012: SANTORUM DROPS OUT 
  19. May 21, 2012: Never Doubt That God Answers Prayer
  20. April 20, 2012: Drip, Drip, Drip: ‘Mormon Mitt’ Meme Keeps Popping Up in Mainstream Media — 139 comments

What is most pleasing to me in this list is the extent to which it is dominated by original reporting. “Content is king,” they say, and some of these items were actual shoe-leather work, such as No. 14, my live report from Anchorage, Alaska, about the GOP Senate primary between Joe Miller and Lisa Murkowski.

Something funny to notice is how, sometimes, news just happens.

Two of the Top 20 (No. 5 and No. 13) were products of my November 2011 trip to the Americans for Prosperity Summit. I went to D.C. that weekend to see the GOP presidential contenders who were speaking at the Summit, and also expecting to drink free at the expense of some of my sources. But I accidentally found myself in the middle of a riot — “#OWS Protesters Attempt to Storm AFP Defending the American Dream Summit.”

That wasn’t something I planned or expected. I’d stepped outside to have a cigarette and wandered over to watch the Occupy DC protesters do their silly chants. Chris Moody of Yahoo News and Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller were standing in front of a cop car, watching them, too. We chatted a bit — reporters comparing notes — and then one of the Occupy leaders yelled, “Road trip!” That was apparently their pre-arranged signal to rush the doors, and I turned on my little pink camera (the famous “Barbie Cam”) to record the action:

Total chaos. When I wedged my way through the mob, trying to get inside to safety, I found that the cops had locked the doors to prevent the Occupiers from entering. So I was trapped in the middle of all these enraged smelly hippies, and noticed I shared this predicament with four other “civilians”: Two AFP Summit attendees, as well as Michelle Fields and her Daily Caller videographer.

When news breaks, every second counts. There is high value to being the first to get a breaking story online: “The need for speed.”

As soon as the cops finally let us “civilians” inside, I sprinted upstairs, and filed this as quickly as I could type it:

WASHINGTON, D.C.
“Occupy DC” protesters just attempted to force their way into the Washington Convention Center where the Americans for Prosperity Foundation is holding its Ronald Reagan tribute dinner for the “Defending the American Dream Summit.” I was in the middle of the scrum of smelly hippies when they stormed the doors and have multiple photos and video which I’m uploading now. . . .

Got that online, sent it out via Twitter and e-mailed a tip to Instapundit, while waiting for the video to upload to YouTube, then embedded that in the first update. By 9:20 p.m., it was linked at Instapundit and by 10:30 p.m., I was enjoying free beers at the expense of my sources — as originally planned.

Then, the follow-up: The next morning, while driving home from the Summit, I rummaged through my pockets, found Michelle Fields’s business card and called her up, switched on my digital recorder and conducted a brief interview while I drove up I-270. Recognizing the news value of what she had told me, I exited the freeway at Gaithersburg, went into a Burger King (free WiFi), set up my laptop, transcribed the recording, and posted the exclusive:  “‘F– Michelle Fields!’ — Interview With Reporter Harassed at Occupy DC Protest.”

At 10:52 a.m., that was also linked at Instapundit. Then I finished my breakfast, got back in my car and drove home, knowing that by the happy coincidence of good luck and experienced news judgment, I’d just scored another important exclusive.

Hey, whatever happened to the Occupy movement, huh? Read more

Category: How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog

@AceOfSpadesHQ BREAKS SILENCE: #BrettKimberlin’s Escalating Threat

Posted on | June 8, 2012 | 67 Comments

“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? . . . Patere tua consilia non sentis, constrictam iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationem tuam non vides? O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit. Consul videt; hic tamen vivit.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 B.C.

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Being sanguine by nature, as I told Nice Deb in an interview a couple weeks ago, I don’t scare easy, and sometimes am accused of recklessness, as well as disregard for the feelings of others who are of a more cautious temperament.

“No discretion,” as one critic recently said in a conversation that was rather less private than she believed. Selah.

To live your life constantly deferring to the opinions of others is to forfeit your independence and become a slave to peer pressure.

Nevertheless, in the matter of Brett Kimberlin, there are matters of operational security to be kept in mind, information which cannot be revealed, lest we give The Pipsqueak Monster some clue as to what measures are being taken to guard against his nefarious schemes and the actions of his evil accomplices. Exercising discretion is therefore vital, and I’ve had to judge carefully what to discuss in public.

Let me repeat what I’ve said before: If Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser are not under FBI surveillance, why the hell not?

This is merely a surmise, which any reasonable person would make, based upon well-known facts, and I do not doubt that both Kimberlin and Rauhauser are aware of this. Their phones, e-mails and other communications are almost certainly being monitored, and they cannot make a move that the feds don’t know about.

My surmise in this matter — what you might call an educated hunch — probably accounts for the increasingly frantic and desperate activity of the various Web presences that comprise what Ken at Popehat calls “Team Kimberlin.” They’re acting scared, and looking very guilty, trying to re-direct suspicion away from themselves by pointing the accusatory finger at others.

Vicious dishonest cowards don’t scare me one bit.

Fear a man who is honest and brave, but never fear a lying coward, because such sadistic monsters delight in inspiring fear.

If you want to be frightened about something, think about this: Neal Rauhauser has boasted about having contacts in the FBI. What sort of disinformation has Rauhauser given the feds? Could it be that federal agents are actually assisting his smear machine? We know that Attorney General Eric Holder is either incompetent or corrupt — perhaps both — but the possibility that the taint of political corruption has spread to the FBI should be a concern to every honest American citizen.

Meanwhile, Ace of Spades has broken his daylong silence to warn against my sanguine confidence, urging Congress to act swiftly to thwart Kimberlin’s familiar pattern of escalation:

Brett Kimberlin will not be stopped by scrutiny. Even when he was a suspect in the Speedway Bombings, and being followed by agents of the FBI — and he knewhe was being followed — he continued to conduct his large-scale drug smuggling operation. While being investigated for the Speedway Bombings, he was arrested independently for procuring false military ID. And then, having been arrested (and released) for procuring false military ID, he was arrested for smuggling tons of marijuana into America.
The fact that the FBI was watching him didn’t seem to matter. He considers them stupid; he always thinks he’s one step ahead of them. The fact that he has frequently been arrested and caught does not seem to enter into his reasoning.

It’s brilliant work — he ain’t the Jack of Spades, y’know — and I share Ace’s belief that congressional action is imperative. But my educated hunch is that honest law enforcement officials will slap the cuffs on Kimberlin before Congress can enact legislation, and I can only pray that they act before someone gets hurt even worse than Kimberlin’s previous victims have been hurt.

Like Cicero said: “Hic tamen vivit.”

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Category: Ace of Spades, The Kimberlin Files

NATIONAL DAY OF BLOGGER SILENCE UPDATE: Remember Seth Allen

Posted on | June 8, 2012 | 78 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
On the morning of Thursday, May 17, I was planning to go to Camp David, 15 miles from my Maryland home, to cover the G8 Summit.

I had never even heard of Brett Kimberlin.

Then Aaron Walker published his 28,000-word post, “How Brett Kimberlin Tried to Frame Me for a Crime” and, after skimming over it, I made an executive decision: “Screw the G8.”

This story was more important. A convicted terrorist using lawsuits and other forms of harassment to intimidate bloggers into silence about his criminal history? Not on my watch, Mister.

When my reporting on the Kimberlin story resulted in harassment aimed at me and my family, I had no choice:

Many other people who have rallied to this cause, including my friend Ali Akbar, have suffered similar harassment, but we must remember that others have suffered far worse in the cause of liberty. My father was wounded within an inch of his life fighting the Nazis in World War II, and it would be a disgrace to his memory for me to back down from a vicious punk like Brett Kimberlin.

People who will not stand up for their rights will eventually discover that they have no rights. It was not the publication of the Declaration of Independence that made America free. Rather, it was the courage of the soldiers who were willing to fight.

Ace of Spades has called for a Day of Silence. Coincidentally, today is the day when this blog will record its 10 millionth hit. We will celebrate tomorrow. Today, we stand in silent solidarity, as Michelle Malkin asks: “Who will protect the freedom to blog?”

UPDATE: When Ace announced the Day of Silence, many bloggers were mystified: “Silence? Isn’t that what Brett Kimberlin wants?” Exactly, which is why every blogger participating in this protest — Andrew J. Patrick just joined our ranks — will write one post about the Day of Silence and nothing else all day.

The point is to call for congressional action, as Ace said: “They are our representatives; we would like some representation.”

My congressman is Republican Roscoe Bartlett. Perhaps some of my friends would care to call his D.C. office at 202-225-2721 and ask Congressman Bartlett’s staff when my representative will take notice of what has happened to his Maryland constituent.

UPDATE II: Well, look what we have here: A Memeorandum thread about the Day of Silence! This post will continue to be updated with links to other bloggers participating in the Day of Silence as we wait to hear from more members of Congress who, we hope, will join Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) in speaking up on behalf of our First Amendment rights.

UPDATE III: Ken at Popehat continues to urge that bloggers focus on the free-speech aspect of the Kimberlin case, rather than the tedious Left-vs.-Right partisan angle. It is important in this context to remind readers that all this began with a progressive blogger, Seth Allen, whose site is DFQ2 and whose Twitter handle is @Prepostericity.

To put it as mildly as possible, Seth is perhaps not a likely candidate for Sean Hannity’s “Great American” panel. Seth is emotionally volatile and his politics are way out there on the freaky far-left fringe.

Yet he seems to have a fully functional bulls–t detector, and when Seth whiffed the scent of bovine excrement coming from the direction of Brett Kimberlin’s tax-exempt hustle, he exercised his First Amendment right to start raising hell. Seth’s tale is told briefly in my American Spectator column today:

During his 17 years in federal custody, Kimberlin became a skillful “jailhouse lawyer,” filing more than 100 legal proceedings on his own behalf and, over the past two years, he has deployed those methods in a series of lawsuits and criminal accusations against his chosen targets. Another non-profit Kimberlin co-founded, Velvet Revolution, made headlines by offering rewards for evidence of wrongdoing by public figures including GOP strategist Karl Rove and U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue. And then a left-winger who used the alias “Socrates” began to speak out on a number of Internet forums, expressing his suspicion that Kimberlin and his Velvet Revolution partner, prominent liberal blogger Brad Friedman, were running a dishonest scam.
“Socrates,” it turned out, was an eccentric young Massachusetts resident named Seth Allen. Believing that Velvet Revolution’s frequent accusations of Republican election fraud and other right-wing crimes were a bogus fundraising gimmick, Allen started doing online research, discovered Kimberlin’s infamous history and persistently wrote about it, getting himself banned from several progressive websites in the process. In October 2010, Kimberlin sued Allen for more than $2 million, charging him with “defamation, libel, cyberstalking, and tortuous interference with business.” That lawsuit tipped the first in a series of dominoes that have been sequentially toppling with increasing rapidity ever since. . . . .

Please read the whole thing, which is a 1,500-word attempt to explain the craziest story I’ve covered in my entire career.

UPDATE IV: Jimmie Bise Jr. at the Sundries Shack:

The goal of Kimberlin and those who act like him is simple. They want you to be afraid, so afraid that you will not speak out freely and boldly in the public arena. Their message, so plain any reasonable person can see it is this: if you disagree with us in any way in public, we will make a spectacle of you. Kimberlin and his ilk have assaulted the First Amendment in a way we have not seen in this country in a very long time. They want our silence and, today, that is what they will get.

There are some disagreements as to the appropriate means of observing the Day of Silence, and Instapundit is the most prominent of the bloggers not participating, but is linking those who do. Professor Reynolds remarks, “Also, not to be too critical, but can we please stop scheduling PR stunts on Fridays? That’s not a good day for those, for obvious reasons.:”

Don’t get me started, or I’ll preach from the Gospel of Butt-Hurt.

Nobody ever asks for my advice, and when I volunteer advice, it’s always ignored, so I’ve stopped trying to tell other people what they should do — unless I decide to tell them go to Hell.

If people actually valued my ability, knowledge and experience, they would be offering to pay me for it.

Instead, I’m Not Good Enough for BlogCon, persona non grata, viewed by the Official New Media Elite as an unwelcome liability to the cause. God knows I don’t know anything about “media strategy” or how to succeed with this here “blogging” stuff . . . 

No “discretion,” either. But I won’t preach the whole sermon now.

UPDATE V: Having gotten that off my chest — Butt-Hurt is the New Black for bloggers — let’s keep linking back to some of the bloggers who, defying the authority of the Official Elite, have linked here today, beginning with Evil Blogger Lady, wo explains that “Freedom Isn’t Free.”

EBL got into a squabble with Wombat this past week over the whole FMJRA thing and I, up to my eyeballs in the Kimberlin story, didn’t have the time to referee the squabble.

In all such disputes, Rule One is, “The Wombat is always right.” Rule Two is, “If you think the Wombat is wrong, see Rule One.”

It’s weird how often arguments among bloggers turn into private resentments that fuel silent fueds that are waged secretly until, one day, it all blows up into a huge public drama with cataclysmic consquences. When did Charles Johnson first become resentful of Pamela Geller’s success? We don’t know, but we saw what happened when everybody tried to ignore it and hoped it was “just a blogwar” that would subside quietly.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant. People who piss me off (bad enough that I notice it) seldom have to wonder if they have pissed me off.

UPDATE VI: Fox News online reports on the story and includes the obligatory denial from the convicted perjurer:

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the incident and said the case had been referred to the FBI.
Frey said talks with nationwide experts suggested this was a case of SWAT-ing and says he and all previous victims had all written about activist and convicted felon Brett Kimberlin — about whom Erickson has also written.
Kimberlin said he has no connection to any of the attacks.
“I had never even heard of Erick Erickson until a couple of days ago,” he told FoxNews.com. “I have nothing to do with the SWAT-ing of anybody.”

Let me clarify a few things that should be obvious, but evidently are being overlooked by some people:

  1. This isn’t just about “SWATting,” but about a broad pattern of harassment by Kimberlin and his associates.
  2. We don’t know who was responsible for the alleged SWATtings of Patterico, Erick Erickson or Mike Stack.
  3. Nearly all the harassment being carried out online — we won’t name the website or Twitter accounts involved, nor describe the types of harassment involved — is being done under pseudonyms and we will not know who did what unless and until there is criminal prosecution of the persons responsible.
  4. Neal Rauhauser has previously described Kimberlin as his “client.” It is therefore entirely reasonable to suspect that Rauhauser is being paid (and may be paying others) to conduct an aggressive online assault against Kimberlin’s critics.

This is why Rauhauser’s role in the 2010 “TwitterGate” scandal is so important to keep in mind. If Rauhauser is running such an operation on Kimberlin’s behalf, and if that kind of intimidation campaign were being funded with proceeds from Kimberlin’s 501(c) non-profits, this would almost certainly be in violation of IRS regulations and other federal laws regarding the activities of tax-exempt organizations.

UPDATE VII: Chris Muir explains why Day by Day Cartoon went blank today.

Dan Collins writes a must-read: “My Letter to My Congressmen Regarding Convicted Domestic Terrorist and Perjurer Brett Kimberlin.”

Bob Belvedere of The Camp of the Saints manages to get himself quoted by Andrea Shea King at Radio Patriot and, though tempted to make a Rule 5 wisecrack, I’ll resist the urge.

UPDATE VIII: “Kimberlin’s Cronies Go After The Lid,” which is a pattern that we can expect to see repeated. It will almost certainly be alleged, for example, that Dan Collins is a “chubby chaser” and that I have been apprehended while driving at high speed in Livonia, Louisiana. However, in our defense, it must be pointed out:

  1. The enforcement of so-called “speed limits” is arguably a form of political discrimination against Appalachian-Americans, whose penchant for, um, rapid transportation is a widely recognized ethno-cultural trait; and
  2. Hey, chubby girls need love, too!

We will continue to ignore all vicious smears and half-truths purveyed by Kimberlin’s defenders: Satan is a liar.

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Category: The Kimberlin Files

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.08.12

Posted on | June 8, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Feinstein Vows To Crack Down On Intel Leaks

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee

Congressional investigation could embarrass Obama at the height of his re-election campaign

Putin’s Hard Line On Protests Put To The Tests
Toughened penalties may have only fueled opponents’ anger, resolve

As Iran Tensions Fester, UAE Completes New Pipeline
Negates Iranian ability to block Strait of Hormuz



POLITICS
Obama Complains About House Inaction While Off Attending Fundraisers

President Obama whines to students at UNLV

Complains about Congressional inaction on jobs, student loans
McConnell responds: “The only people dragging their feet on this issue are over at the White House.”

Scott Brown Accuses Liz Warren Of Being Debate-Shy


US Military Suicides Rising, Even Though Combat Eases

Arizona Imposes Tough Regulations On Newly Legal Medical Marijuana Businesses

Attorney General, House GOP Clash Over “Fast And Furious”

Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Arizona Immigration Law Is “Just Right”

No Enemies On The Right: Rand Paul Endorses Romney, Ron Paul Calls On Followers To Be “Respectful” At Tampa



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Fall After Bernanke Says Nothing About QE3: NYMEX $82.83, Brent $98.10
European Stocks Slide As Stimulus Hopes Dashed
Fitch Slashes Spain’s Credit Rating To Near-Junk
US Credit Rating Could Follow Spain In 2013
PRC’s Top Banks Hold Line On Interest Despite Top Bank’s Rate Cut
California’s San Onofre Nuke Plant Likely Offline For Summer
As French Unemployment Rises To 10%, Greece Rockets To 21.9%
B&N E-Book Settlement Complaint Smacks Down DOJ
Facebook Rolls Out Central Location For Apps
Virgin Mobile Offers iPhone As No-Contract Market Gathers Steam
IE10’s “Do Not Track” Default Dies Quick Death
HTC Locked Out Of Windows 8 Tablet Party?
Nokia Plans To Expand On AT&T Lumia Deals
RIM Officially Nukes 16GB Playbook Tablet
PRC Tightens Internet Controls; Real-Name System To Expand



SPORTS
LeBron James Not Done Playing Yet

Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce watch helplessly as LeBron James dunks

James forces Game 7 with 45-point rampage in Game Six

A-Rod Struggles As Rays Avert Sweep With 7-3 Beating Of Yankees

Buchholz Shuts Out Orioles, Red Sox Win 7-0

Ochocinco Released By Patriots


Goldwater Institute Files Suit To Block Glendale Council Vote On Coyotes Deal

NASCAR Drivers Choose Up Sides In Busch Controversy

Chapman Falters In Reds’ 10th Inning Loss To Pirates

Wang Still Limp, Nationals Baffled By Dickey As Mets Win 3-1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Former Fleetwood Mac Member Bob Welch Dead At 65

Bob Welch, 1945-2012, RIP

Dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound at Nashville home

“America’s Got Talent”: Stuttering Soldier Timothy Poe’s Stolen Valor?

Charlie Sheen Flips Out After Running Afoul Of Staples Center’s No Reentry Policy

Selena Gomez Showing Serious Cleavage In New Issue Of “Elle”

Universal Gets Rolling On “Snow White And The Huntsman” Sequel

Phillip Phillips Undergoes Kidney Surgery


“Fifty Shades Of Grey” Heating Up With Angelina Jolie Talk

Taylor Swift Ditches CMT Awards, Jumps On Kings Bandwagon

Jewel Fixes Teeth (Temporarily?) For June Carter Cash Role

Jimmy Kimmel Disses K-Dash’s 72-Day “Marriage”



FOREIGNERS
Syria Bars UN Monitors From Massacre Investigation
Spain’s Rajoy Tries To Take Charge After Stumbling Start
Baluchistan Madrassa Bomb Toll Rises To 15
US Losing Patience With Pakistan, Panetta Says
Golden Dawn MP Wanted By Greek Police For Assault
Netanyahu Cabinet Helps Vote Down Bill To Legalize West Bank Settlements
Opinion: Time For Ulster’s McGuinness To Jettison Last Republican Taboo
Hollande Rolls Back Sarkozy’s Retirement Reforms
Dalai Lama’s Envoys To PRC Resign In Frustration
US Offers Bounty On Somali Militants
Prince Of Wales A Real Danger To The Monarchy?



BLOGS & STUFF
Peggy Noonan: What’s Changed After Wisconsin
American Thinker: Payback Is A Hound Dog
Power Line: The Spike (Ed Klein Edition)
Vodkapundit: Who Do You Believe, The Exit Polls Or Your Own Lying Eyes?
Da Tech Guy: Who’s Throwing Who Under The Bus?
Lonely Conservative: Congressman Kenny Marchant (R-TX) Joins Call For Investigation Into Logger SWATting
Ali Akbar: My Mistake, Brett Kimberlin, And Attacks On My Mother
Protein Wisdom: “Senator Asks DOJ To Investigate SWATting Of Conservative Bloggers”
Michelle Malkin: ACLJ Steps Up To Defend Bloggers Targeted Over Brett Kimberlin Coverage
MacIver Institute: AFSCME-Sponsored Post-Recall Rally In Milwaukee Turns Violent
Weasel Zippers: Because The Economy Doesn’t Suck Enough, Liberal Dems To Push For $10 Minimum Wage
Althouse: Atlantic’s Molly Ball Claims Romney’s Road To 270 Doesn’t Get To 270
NewsBusters: Jon Stewart Slams MSNBC Coverage Of Wisconsin Recall – “MSNBSad”
Randy’s Roundtable: Fast And Furious (Lies)
Jawa Report: Yesterday At Obama’s San Francisco Fundraiser, The Press Lined Up To Interiew…
Investor.com: What’s Really To Blame For The Lousy Recovery
Volokh Conspiracy: Open Primary Law Yields Two Republicans In CA-31 Even Though Dems Are Largest Party
American Power: The Left’s “Smoldering Wreckage” Leads To Smothering Agenda

Category: Live at Five

Hammurabi Rides Reborn

Posted on | June 7, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

Hammurabi Rides Reborn

Hammurabi rides reborn,
(So-and-so’s a right blackguard!)
Though I’m not privy to facts,

In each personal regard.
The sudden onslaught of scorn,
Moves me to poetic wax.

As though by mere spoken word,
I could halt the lame attacks,
That email and tweet adorn.

Historical knives in backs,
Are unstabbed as sound’s unheard.
Easier, new flesh is torn,

Than everyone just relax,
In forgiveness be reborn,
And swallow pride gone hard.

Or not. Let’s for past wrongs mourn,
And continue eyeless acts,
Toothless allegations heard,

Useless vows of vengeance sworn,
By adults? So untoward,
Serving only strength to tax.

If you like the form, try Afghanistan Reflection

Category: Blogging, Video

Separated At Birth? Frances Fox Piven / Susan Sarandon Edition

Posted on | June 7, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

It bothered me for a while that Piven reminded me of someone. . .

Celibacy argument Gaaaaah
Category: humor

CNN Gets Scooped on Its Own Story
UPDATE: ACLJ Joins the Fight!

Posted on | June 7, 2012 | 35 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Very busy today, awaiting developments on The Kimberlin Files. However, Da Tech Guy cleverly points out that CNN allowed Arlette Saenz of ABC to beat them on reporting this story, even though the reported SWATting of CNN on-air personality Erick Erickson was a central element of the story.

For that matter, CNN contributor Dana Loesch is well-informed about the Kimberlin story, and could put CNN’s reporters in direct contact with many others who are involved. But maybe the executives at CNN would rather continue being No. 3 in cable news ratings, and let their competitors scoop them on such an important story, because they are more interested in playing politics than reporting the actual news.

Jeff Goldstein mocks Brett Kimberlin’s self-proclaimed victimhood.

Obviously, having spoken to Saenz about my own role in the story, I owe The American Spectator a follow-up on my May 29 article, “Terror By Any Other Name.” So . . .busy day.

UPDATE: Almost forgot — but Bob Belvedere has reminded us — that Eric Holder testified today before the House Judiciary Committee. Did committee members ask the Attorney General any questions about Senator Chambliss’s inquiry?

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin breaks the news that the American Center for Law and Justice will defend Ali Akbar:

“Free speech is under attack,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. “Conservative writers are now facing threats against themselves, their families, and their livelihoods merely because they’ve aggressively investigated the history and funding of radical liberals. The ACLJ has a long history of successfully defending free speech, and we look forward to defeating this latest attempt to threaten and intimidate conservatives into silence.”

Busy, busy, busy . . .

— Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 


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