The Other McCain

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

Massacre in Mexico

President Obama has plenty of time to worry about Libya, while murderous anarchy is just across the southern border: Security forces have unearthed six more bodies in a northeastern Mexican border state where a drug gang is believed to be kidnapping passengers from buses and hiding their victims in secret graves, authorities said Tuesday. A […]

NATO Hits Qaddafi Compound

NATO bombers hit Qaddafi’s headquarters compound near Tripoli. Here’s an al-Jazeera video report: Meanwhile, on the fighting front at Ajdabiya, the big news today is that the rebels are listening to anti-Qaddafi rap music.  Which is a poor substitute for actual news, but I guess the Associated Press is more interested in happy-face feature stories […]

Canadian Left-Wing Guy With Fetish for Asian Porn Kills Chinese Student, 23

Brian Scott Dickson, 29, had been a top university student who once worked for a foreign-policy think tank, the Atlantic Council of Canada, and was also “involved with Developments in Literacy, a Pakistani aid organisation that raises money for children.” And now Dickson is charged with murder in the death of a Chinese student: Described […]

STUNNING VIDEO: German Woman Confronts Radical Muslims: ‘Never Again! I Am Ashamed! … Rise Up, Germany!’

Eric Dondero obtained and translated this video from Frankfurt, Germany, in which a woman encountered a group of Muslim men who were evidently engaged in hateful anti-Jewish rhetoric. She decided she had to speak out: “Never again! Never again! I am ashamed that he is allowed to speak here. I feel ashamed! I am German, […]

Libya: Qaddafi’s Forces Reportedly Withdrawing from Misrata

Note that this news is not yet confirmed: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces began to withdraw from the besieged western city of Misurata on Saturday, a rebel spokesman said, the first stage of a plan announced by the government to turn the fighting there over to tribal supporters. As rebel leaders in the east claimed victory, […]

French Will Send Military Advisers to Teach Libyan Rebels How to Surrender

And once they’ve learned proper French surrender techniques, then it’s time for Lesson Two: Collaborating with the enemy!

Royalists for Social Justice?

After yesterday’s post about the royal wedding, I decided to develop the theme into a column for The American Spectator: Conservatives, predisposed to defend all things traditional and hierarchical, might naturally be expected to admire the British monarchy. But the remarkable fact is that most of the Americans obsessed by the royal wedding (and the […]

British Sending Military Advisers to Libya; Russia Says Aid Violates U.N. Mandate

It may be too early to call it a hopeless quagmire yet, but the situation is definitely getting squirrelly now: Britain said Tuesday it is expanding its presence in Libya with military advisers and the European Union said it is prepared to send troops for humanitarian assistance if requested by the United Nations. . . […]

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