The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox, 09.03.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho Apologies for the lack of Live at Five this morning; not enough sleep on Monday night plus a late tax class Tuesday night equaled complete collapse when I got home Tuesday night. First Street Journal: The Work Ethic Michelle Malkin: Deport The Tsarnaev Sisters Twitchy: Wassermann-Schultz Suggests Scott Walker Beats Women […]

Leave Mary Landrieu Alone!

by Smitty Hot Air reports on AFP’s praisworthy ad for Mary Landrieus’s re-election campaign: For crying out loud, Americans: Mary Landrieu is the MOAST HONEST POLITICIAN EVAR! She openly doesn’t care about the benighted peasants of the swamp that hatched her. She’s an aristocrat now; all full of indigna-tion at the situa-tion of the humilia-tion […]

Feminist ‘Facts’ Aren’t True

Nothing is more tenacious than feminist mythology. This was what I pointed out yesterday deep into a 5,000-word article: When one of the foremost leaders of your “social revolution” is revealed to be a raving lunatic, doesn’t this call into question the theories she had previously proclaimed? Alas, it was the ’70s, when people didn’t feel ridiculous […]

Police: Lesbian Coach and Teenage Girl ‘Had an Ongoing Sexual Relationship’

  Leah Eames, 32, is a teacher and swim team coach at Sycamore High School in Dekalb, Illinois. On the night of August 10, a police officer checking on the YMCA “after hours found Eames working out with a student.” The circumstances were suspicious; when police checked surveillance video at the YMCA, it showed Eames […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.02.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS India, Japan Pursuing Closer Ties To Counter Red China Stepping up defense and economic cooperation India offers red carpet, not red tape, to investors, Modi tells Japan Japan promises $35 billion investment but holds out on nuke deal Pakistan’s Sharif Clings To Power As Opposition Steps Up Assault Will […]

Kate Millett’s Tedious Madness

“[A] disinterested examination of our system of sexual relationship must point out that the situation between the sexes now, and throughout history, is . . . a relationship of dominance and subordinance. What goes largely unexamined, often even unacknowledged (yet is institutionalized nonetheless) in our social order, is the birthright priority whereby males rule females. […]

Labor Day Miscellaneous Linkagery & Open Thread

— by Wombat-socho Nature abhors a vacuum, and blogs without posts cause readers to get bored and drift away, so here’s a few things you may find of interest: Pic somewhat relevant: I’ll Bet That Vladimir Putin Is Scared Now! over at First Street Journal. The International Lord of Hate fisked one of the Grauniad’s […]

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