The Other McCain

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

The Triumph of Raaaaacism: Liberals Get in Touch With Their Inner Teabagger

First it was Michael Moore and now they’re all piling on. Ralph Nader says Obama should be impeached for war crimes, Josh Marshall says the president’s Libya policy is “a mess, poorly conceived, ginned up by folks with their own weird agendas,” and Andrew Sullivan . . . Well, frankly, I’m beginning to feel a […]

What Part of ‘Asserting Private Knowledge’ Is So Hard to Understand?

One of the most dangerous things a journalist can do, in terms of libel, is to claim to have private knowledge of wrongdoing by someone. That is to say, don’t assert that a person is a drunkard or a wife-beater because of what you were told or claim to have witnessed privately. Unless you’ve got […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Sweater Puppy Madness!

-compiled by Wombat-Socho Having only today escaped from the friendly (but Intertubeless) confines of the local VA Medical Center, I am bemused to see that many of this week’s link submissions seem to revolve around the phrase cited above. Great minds thinking alike? Who knows? Maybe not, since Mind-Numbed Robot was Patient Zero of the […]

SEIU Sued for ‘Harassment’

And about damned time: Sodexo USA has filed the lawsuit in an attempt to halt the over-the-top harassment from SEIU, alleging that many of the acts are very serious and outside of the normal realm of union tactics, including acts of ” SEIU blackmail, vandalism, trespass, harassment, and lobbying law violations designed to steer business […]

If All The Copts In Egypt Packed Up And Walked To Israel. . .

by Smitty . . .wouldn’t that be one mother of a scriptural allusion? I have no idea what I’d do in their moccasins, but it’s a Clash that would probably end in departure:

‘Arab Savages’ and Other Things No One Can Write About in 21st-Century England

No matter how savage any Arabs may be: A Melanie Phillips blogpost on the [U.K.] Spectator website which referred to the “moral depravity” of Arab “savages” is being investigated by the Press Complaints Commission. The online comment piece, headlined “Armchair barbarism”, focused on media coverage of the murder of five members of a Jewish family […]

Celebrating 6 With 5

by Smitty What would be a good way to chase the 6 MegaHit post? How about a Rule 5 post! Fortunately, M. Joseph Sheppard has done a suitable roundup of refined taste and variety. Thank you very kindly, sir.

From Mountains Jenghis Roamed About

by Smitty This week’s FMJRA is a throwback to a blogging life I distantly remember, trying to come up with a suitable FMJRA backronym for the week. The bad news is that the Wombat is still recovering. The good news is that I happen to have a few spare minutes and bandwidth to pinch-hit for […]

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