The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.22.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Rick Perry’s Mugshot Goes Viral Former PIU investigator quashes CPRIT allegations Perry: It’s possible ISIS has crossed the southern border Rick Perry rounds up the media herd Pakistani Opposition Leader Imran Khan Ends Talks With PM Sharif No further talks with government until Sharif resigns Americans Recovering From Ebola […]

The Madness of ‘Gender Theory’

Feminists and friends of Amy Austin (@amymarieaustin) have spent the past day-and-a-half chastising me on Twitter for the tone and content of Wednesday’s post, “Feminism Repeats Itself, the First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce.” It may help to examine the “gender theory” gibberish piled into Ms. Austin’s 995-word screed entitled “Patriarchy and the Problem of Being Born […]

The Bloody Cost of Failure

The New York Times reports: Kneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life this week at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Before pulling out the knife used to decapitate him, his masked executioner explained that he was killing the 40-year-old American […]

It’s Almost As Though They Have A Script Sitting In Wait, Or Something

by Smitty Larry2 at Instapundit There seems to be a pattern: unarmed young black guy is shot, there is a vast media outcry over the young “honor student’s” death, family provides photos of the dead guy taken when he was 11 years old, well before he had opted for the ghetto thug look, it comes […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.21.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Ferguson Enjoys A Night Of Relative Calm For First Time Since Michael Brown’s Death “We saw a different crowd that came out tonight…less agitators,” Johnson said. Attorney General Holder visits Ferguson Pentagon defends program supplying military gear to police Liberian Army Fires On People Trying To Escape Ebola Quarantine […]

Ferguson Question For The Gungrabbers

by Smitty Instapundit notes: What’s amazing about Ferguson is that, for all the sturm und drang, the casualty count is pretty light. Are we supposed to expect that, for all the guns and ammo in circulation, Missouri was going to melt down in some vast firefight? Is there some point to be made that Second […]

Feminism Repeats Itself, the First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce

Amy Austin (@amymarieaustin) is a British university student, a lovely blonde soprano, who wrote a blog post about “gender roles” that became something of a viral sensation among feminists. We’ll get to that in a minute, but first let’s acknowledge that Amy Austin has suffered serious misfortune. Her father committed suicide in December. She describes […]

Go For The Fundraiser, Perry

by Smitty Rothman needs to think outside the media bag of tricks: [Reporting for a mug shot in response to the abuse of power indictment is] really bad news for those who backed Perry’s prospective 2016 presidential campaign. No matter how frivolous the charges Perry faces, and they are frivolous, few politicians can recover from […]

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