The Other McCain

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

New Concept of ‘Rights’ in America: If You’re Not Gay, You Don’t Have Any

Gosh, it seems like just a few years ago that allegedly serious people were warning about how the “christofascist godbags” of the Religious Right were an existential threat to freedom in America, and if you disagreed with these allegedly serious people, you were just a hateful bigot. Now? Well, you’re still a hateful bigot, but […]

Reminder: #FreeKate’s Father ‘Pressured a Victim Not to File a Battery Charge’

The father of accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt is a disgraced ex-cop, who lost his police job ten years ago: May 21, 2004 — WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. – A police officer involved in a nightclub quarrel resigned after an internal affairs review showed he pressured a victim not to file a battery charge, officials said Thursday. […]

Another God-Hating Anti-American Democrat Exposed as a Criminal Liar

Dylan Bleier is a Democrat and a liar, but I repeat myself. Oberlin College student Dylan Bleier identified himself as an “atheist/ pacifist/environmentalist/libertarian socialist/consequentialist,” which is to say he is a typical lying Democrat criminal: One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay […]

Shocking: #FreeKate’s Father Conspires to Shut Down This Blog: ‘Media Blackout’

Steven Hunt, arrested for fraud, April 22, 2012 “Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander, assault and battery. Always settle them cases yourself.” — Andrew Jackson, recalling his mother’s advice Every decent, law-abiding citizen of Indian River County despises the Hunt family, a vile pack of […]

#FreeKate Comic Interlude

Honestly, my plan today had been to write about the Virginia governor’s race or Barrett Brown or Michael Hastings, but a certain fateful sentence in Gaelic has been invoked, so I can’t turn loose of the “Free Kate” denouement just yet. While I was engaged in serious work, however, a friend had a Twitter go-round […]

‘The Powers That Be’: Lawful Authority, Honorable Service and a Cursed Traitor

My soldier son and his mother at Fort Benning. Our night-owl friend Ali — who lately has kept a Dracula-style sleep schedule — stayed up past dawn to report that a deeply confused fool is more deeply confused than anyone previously suspected. Regular readers know my Army son is currently training in hope of joining […]

Bradley Manning Declares Himself ‘Chelsea’

by Ali A. Akbar In a statement read on the “Today” show this morning, Bradley Manning, who  just yesterday was sentenced to 35 years by a judge after he was found guilty of releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, declared himself a woman. “Chelsea” to be more precise. Here’s the statement: Subject: […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 08.22.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Bo Xilai Trial Draws Official Tweets, Scattered Protests Former Chungking party boss rejects bribery charges as trial begins Wikileaker To Ask For Presidential Pardon Or maybe commutation of 35-year sentence Britain Calls Emergency UN Security Council Meeting Accuses Assad regime of “shocking escalation” regarding rumored poison gas use POLITICS […]

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