The Other McCain

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

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 […]

It’s Come to This

Ace saw this and could scarcely believe it, but it’s true: Some guy with an online gaming site got fired — fired! — for a Tweet — a Tweet! — about L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling: Josh Olin, the community and eSports manager at Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios, is no longer with the company […]

In The Mailbox: 04.30.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Proof Positive: The Cowboy and his Therapist First Street Journal: John Kerry Was Right Doug Powers: Obama’s National Security Adviser Prepped Susan Rice To Blame The Video For Benghazi Attack Twitchy: “A Sermon From A Bigot Who Hates Interracial Couples?” Larry Elder Smacks Spike Lee & The NAACP […]

Barrett Brown Pleads Guilty

September 2012: Barrett Brown vows to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent News from Dallas today: A writer and activist linked to the hacking collective Anonymous pleaded guilty to federal charges on Tuesday alleging that he shared stolen data and posted an online threat saying he would try to harm a federal agent who was investigating him. […]

Lies, Errors, and Tendentious Mischaracterizations of Facts

“Vile Lie-Peddler @Karoli Kuns,” as I have sometimes called her, is one of the members of Team Kimberlin whose harassment of the perjuring bomber’s Enemies List is intermittent, rather than habitual and constant. It has been months since I paid any attention at all to her and, honestly, the whole Kimberlin drama has begun to […]

‘Who the F Are U?’

The quoted tweet could be lesson one in a New Media seminar: “How Not to Respond to Jeff Goldstein on Twitter.” It began when Jeff (@ProteinWisdom) asked @CaliAzona why she favorited a certain tweet, and you can read through the resulting flame war. My apathetic inattention to everything — except whatever it is I’m obsessed […]

Arianna Huffington’s Lesbian Daughter Recovers From Cocaine Habit

A couple years ago, Christina Huffington was hospitalized with respiratory problems after she went on a cocaine binge at Yale. She’d been addicted to coke since she was 16. She was also bulimic. Now everything is OK, because she’s 24 years old and has a job as an editor at — you’ll never guess — […]

In The Mailbox, 04.17.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM First Street Journal: The Professional Media Are Trying To Normalize Transsexualism Aewl’s Abode: Fifth-Grader Brings Airsoft Gun To School, Panic Ensues – Wait…Nope. Michelle Malkin: Debunking The Blame Righty Propagandists – Again Doug Powers: It’s Official – Philanthronanny Michael Bloomberg Announces He’s Bought His Way Into Heaven Twitchy: […]

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