The Other McCain

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

The Cover-Up in Pima County

The Arizona Republic reports: Sheriff’s Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday’s shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and Pima Community College have declined to release documents that […]

‘Vain in Their Imaginations’
God-Haters and the Tucson Massacre

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . . — Romans 1:21-22 (KJV) Vox Day quoted from that famous passage in describing the auto-beclownment of University of […]

Jared Loughner: Beta Male

No doubt about it, if this guy hadn’t become a mass-murderer, he would have been a blog troll: A trove of 131 online-forum postings written between April and June 2010 . . . provides insight into Mr. Loughner’s mind-set in the year leading up to Saturday’s shootings in Tucson . . . The online postings […]

When in Doubt, Blame Palin!

#BlamePalin became a sarcastic Twitter hashtag yesterday. Among other things, I blamed her for Auburn’s game-winning field goal against Oregon. Also, my four-day streak without an Instalanche. Liberals have made Palin their all-purpose scapegoat, the demon-figure whose existence relieves them of the burden for coming up with rational explanations of why bad things happen. The evasion of […]

News From the Department of Obvious: Jared Loughner ‘Was Sick in the Head’

Why New York Times reporters get the big bucks: “He was a nihilist and loves causing chaos, and that is probably why he did the shooting, along with the fact he was sick in the head,” said Zane Gutierrez, 21 . . . “Jared felt nothing existed but his subconscious,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “The dream […]

Mission Accomplished, Markos Moulitsas

You can’t un-Tweet it, you see. Before the suspect had been identified, before his motive was known, you blamed Sarah Palin for an atrocious crime of which she was utterly innocent. The facts of your cruel defamation are chronicled precisely by Professor Willliam Jacobson: As far as I can tell, Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress was […]

Poll Shows MSM Spin on Tucson Shooting Rejected by Stupid American Majority

Damn it, when are you ignorant people going to wake up and recognize the moral superiority of your liberal overlords? Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country’s heated political rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS […]

They Only Have to Be Right Once

“Here we go,” says William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, after a Democrat decides that applying the phrase “job killing” to ObamaCare is an incitement to violence: A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to […]

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