The Other McCain

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

#RapeCulture Liberal Logic™

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit today published a commentary on a story that seemed familiar, so I double-checked. Amanda Kijera’s account of being raped in Haiti was originally published at the progressive blog Alternet in April 2010, but has apparently been deleted since then. However, its authenticity can be verified from other contemporaneous sources, e.g., […]

Jared Diamond on Haiti

by Smitty This post is prompted by Freeberg. In my pre-blogging days, when I still had time to read stuff, one object of fascination was Collapse, by Jared Diamond. Here is the relevant Wikipedia. I took my copy to work to show to a colleague, which will keep this post mercifully short. What I recall […]