The Other McCain

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

50.137.181.253, Beaverton, Oregon

A certain troll using the name “Bilibob” decided to post three comments on a post called “Emerging Awareness Update,” but don’t look for them now; all three have been deleted. A check on the IP address indicated the troll is using a Comcast connection from Beaverton, Oregon. When I checked to see if there had […]

Our Oppressed Elite

Because I’m about 1,500 words into another long treatise about feminism that I know I can’t possibly finish tonight, I reckon I should give y’all a little something to laugh at in the meantime. Liberalism is a joke in search of punchline. We have rich white Harvard students protesting racist police brutality, and Ed Driscoll says […]

God Bless Senator Mike Lee

by Smitty Half the battle is showing up. The other half is staying engaged: . . .as rotten as the CROmnibus before us is, I want to state for the record that this week leaves me with nothing but optimism. Optimism about the prospect we have for real reform and revival in the coming years. […]

As UVA Rape Story Falls Apart, Feminists Try to Save ‘Rape Culture’ Narrative

Reporting by the Washington Post and ABC News is steadily ripping to shreds the gang-rape story “Jackie” told Rolling Stone‘s Sabrina Rubin Erdely. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a good summary of how the story is unraveling. It seems clear that editors at Rolling Stone did not adequately vet the story and, as Eric […]

We Are So Doomed

If you’re an optimist, you obviously don’t have young children, especially daughters. To be a parent in 2014 is to know for a certainty that the social fabric of our civilization is rapidly unraveling: An 11-year-old girl from Arkansas gave her family the scare of their lives last week when she ran away from home […]

Secret Wars And Silos

— compiled by Wombat-socho I thought I’d already read David Drake’s What Distant Deeps, the eighth book in his Lieutenant Leary/RCN series, but I was wrong, and gladly so. Drake has become a master of filing the serial numbers off obscure historical events, repainting them, and turning them into decent adventure novels, and What Distant […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.12.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Norks Lead Thug Regimes Piling On US After Senate CIA Report China, Iran and North Korea pile on with the finger-wagging despite own questionable mores CIA chief says “abhorrent” tactics may not have been essential Modi Tells Putin Russia Will Remain India’s Main Defense Partner India to assemble 400 […]

What Are The Odds That Boehnerdict Arnold Ends Up Making Wurst of Brat?

by Smitty It’s been depressing to see the fine print unfold: elections have consequences, so long as those consequences tend toward expanding the federal government, centralizing power, diminishing liberty, and crushing the borders. . . .Brat takes his mandate to halt amnesty as a promise made to his district. Most point to Brat’s opposition to […]

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