The Other McCain

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

ObamaCare Lie = ‘Incorrect Promise’

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the […]

The Politics of Weather

One of the horrors of 21st-century America — a harbinger of creeping totalitarianism — is that everything is becoming political. Sex is political. Food is political. School is political. And, thanks to the global warming scare, even the weather is now political. Except we don’t even call it “weather” anymore. Now it’s called “climate.” Silly […]

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 11.13.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Typhoon Aid Convoys Come Under Fire As Relief Efforts Become Logistics Nightmare Convoys being attacked by Communist guerillas, starving people Hawaii Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill Governor to sign, make state 15th to legalize gay marriages Netanyahu Blocks Plans To Build New Settler Homes Wants no diversions from lobbying […]

Richard Cohen and a Plate Glass Window

It probably seemed like a good idea: Trash Iowa, trash the Tea Party — an easy day’s work for a Washington Post columnist, and hey, why not throw in a cheap shot at Sarah Palin for good measure? . . . Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah (considered to the right […]

A Maryland Criminal Arrest Warrant Was Issued Today for Bill Schmalfeldt

From District Court of Carroll County, John Hoge reports. It’s all fun and games until somebody goes to jail. UPDATE: What I wrote Sunday: After John Hoge asked the Court to enforce its peace order against deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt, the latter decided he had not yet shown sufficient contempt of court, as Hoge explains: He began tweeting […]

Veterans: The Next Generation

— Wombat-socho There’s never been any shortage of military vets among SF writers, the most obvious example being Robert Heinlein. More recently, David Drake and Joe Haldeman have sold a fair amount of books informed by their experiences in Vietnam, and between the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan, it should surprise nobody that we have a […]

Barrett Brown Does Some Excellent Writing From Jail, Where He Belongs

Barrett Brown in meltdown mode, Sept. 12, 2012 “Thinking himself a sort of one-man Woodward and Bernstein who would heroically expose the Hidden Secrets of the Surveillance State, Brown instead exposed himself as a blundering amateur who got himself in so far over his head that he couldn’t handle the catastrophic result.” — Robert Stacy […]

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Team Exposes Fraud of ObamaCare ‘Navigators’

John Fund at National Review: James O’Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR’s president fired, is back. This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare’s “navigators,” the nearly 50,000 people who, in the words of the […]

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