The Other McCain

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

Do The Democrats Think We’re Not Paying Attention?

by Smitty Now, the House CR and the epic Ted Cruz speech were more velocity than mass, we can agree. There wasn’t a lot of hope that a Senate which goes for years without passing a budget would actually pass the House’s CR as written. But not that matters have gone full circle, and now […]

Double Trouble

That’s a picture of our twin sons Bob and Jim on their first birthday in 1993. Today’s their 21st birthday. Bob’s away in the Army now, so Jim’s taking me out tonight to watch the Alabama-Ole Miss game. Life is good  

‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?

That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?” That question appears as a subtitle caption in video footage from Syria, so we can assume that it was a Danish video crew covering this scene with rebel gunmen in a firefight against Assad forces. In reply to the question, one of the gunmen answers, “We […]

Sex Charges Against Two Basketball Coaches at Same Nevada Middle School

In August, police in Clark County, Nevada, arrested Alphonso Washington, 47, and charged him with “misdemeanor lewdness . . . alleging he inappropriately touched female students” at Lied Middle School, where he was coach of the girls’ basketball team. Friday, the boys basketball coach at the same school, 44-year-old Michael Barclay, was “charged with attempted […]

James Fallows, Eminent Fool, and the Surprising Vindication of John C. Calhoun

“The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through […]

Lesbian Pedophile Molests 3-Year-Old Girl, Faces Federal Child Porn Charges

Sex offender Angela D. Martin was arrested again last week. FBI press release, Sept. 20: Wallingford Woman Charged with Producing and Distributing Child Pornography Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Rhonda M. Glover, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that Angela […]

Horror in Nairobi: Muslim Terrorists Tortured, Raped, Mutilated Victims

The British Independent quotes an account from a Kenyan newspaper about the gruesome atrocities perpetrated against victims of the Westgate Mall attack. The Independent is careful to note that these details have not been officially confirmed. Then again, we don’t even have a confirmed number of dead and injured from the attack yet, and so […]

Liberals Use Counter-Factual Arguments to Defend Academic Anti-Gun Mania

University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis Glenn Reynolds notices a Salon columnist falsely accusing him of trying to get Erik Loomis fired over last year’s Newtown controversy. Whether or not Loomis should have been fired, the fact that he made his unhinged comments while an untenured assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island […]

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