The Other McCain

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

When Lies Succeed

Has America become indifferent to truth? The events in Benghazi seem to fit the description of a general-interest non-partisan disaster for the Administration. But, for now at least, as galling as it is, it’s hard not to give the Obama Administration (and the other villain of the tale, Hillary Clinton) points for managing the public’s […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.06.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Boko Haram Claims Credit For Kidnapping Nigerian Schoolgirls Leader threatens to sell girls into slavery Supremes Split 5-4 On Approval Of Prayer At Public Meetings Even dissenters admit the public forum “need not become a religion-free zone.” (Kagan) Ukraine Moves Forces To Odessa Loses helicopter to rebels near Slavyansk […]

#NOAFW Kinder, Gentler Baby-Killing

Cosmopolitan magazine celebrates the Sacrament of Liberalism: New Jersey abortion clinic counselor Emily Lett got pregnant and recorded a video of her abortion experience, telling her story to “inspire other women to stop the guilt.” Wesley Smith comments: “Ah. good times. Becoming irresponsibly pregnant and then having a birth-like experience of destroying a fetus — […]

Gay Bishop’s Gay Divorce

Oh, the heartache of homosexual matrimony on the rocks! Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, now retired, nearly prompted a schism in the Anglican Communion in 2003 when the New Hampshire diocese consecrated him as their bishop, despite his open relationship with partner Mark Andrew. Robinson and Andrew were joined in civil union in 2008, then […]

Benghazi: A Hole in the Tick-Tock

Tick-tock: Journalism jargon for a story that recounts events in chronological order, as if accompanied by the soundtrack of a ticking clock. Last summer, at the request of American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., I spent several days trying to get the White House Press Office to answer a simple question: The President of […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.05.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Pro-Russian Rebels Attack Odessa Police Station 67 prisoners freed by rebels Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams Urges Calm After Release No charges against Adams in McConville murder case Portugal To Make Clean Exit From Bailout Buoyed by exports and benefiting from austerity budgets POLITICS NC Senate GOP Primary A Test […]

Call It the ‘Post-DTF Stroll,’ Maybe?

Feminism is, among other things, a totalitarian attempt to tell us what to think by controlling what we are allowed to say. For example, we cannot be permitted to disapprove of promiscuous women, and so the language of disapproval must be suppressed. Which predictably brings us to the latest from Amanda Marcotte: The “walk of […]

Rule 5 Sunday: The Portland Double-Dip Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Welcome back once again to the weekly collection of links that provide welcome relief from the daily barrage of sickness, politics (but I repeat myself) and just plain weirdness that provides the bulk of our content here. As usual, some links are NSFW, so you should exercise some discretion in when […]

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