The Other McCain

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

A. Because I’m Not Ann Coulter

Q. Why don’t I try to get away with writing stuff like this? Last year, a Muslim attempting to murder Prince Mohammed bin Nayef of Saudi Arabia blew himself up with a bomb stuck up his anus. Fortunately, this didn’t happen near an airport, or Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would now be requiring full […]

Lies, Damned Lies and Liberalism

Michael Zak pushes back against political correctness: Today, Steve Kornacki, news editor at Salon, published a lengthy denunciation of the Republican Party, and of Rush Limbaugh specifically, on the subject of civil rights  The title of the article is Dittoheads, race and denial.  Kornacki makes a pretense of setting the record straight about the civil rights […]

Andrew Sullivan: Does the Phrase ‘And the Horse You Rode In On’ Ring a Bell?

“Here’s Robert Stacy McCain rushing to Willow’s defense . . . Maybe I should defer to McCain as an arbiter of homophobia. He’s one of the vilest bigots on the web.” — Andrew Sullivan OK, post-election flame-wars being The New Black, I’m happy at last to have an antagonist who (a) hates all Republicans and […]

Post-Weigel Journalism? Impossible!

Once David Weigel left the Washington Independent, they were doomed to oblivion: The crisis in the world of journalism today isn’t really about journalism — it’s about the bottom line. Reporters and editors everywhere are trying to find a way to keep their very good work alive. We thought our model had a chance. It […]

Bolsheviks for Monarchy

Matthew Yglesias hates greedy rich people and “corporate America” and — of course — despises all racism, sexism, homophobia and every other form of prejudice or intolerance you could imagine. Somehow, these leftist commitments do not stop Yglesias from fawning over British royalty. All politics is local, I suppose. And any hypocrisy is acceptable, so long as it is […]

Worst. Headline. Evah.

Some things make you want to gouge your eyes out: Murkowski now has apparently insurmountable lead of 10,000+ votes When I saw that at Hot Air Headlines, I knew that it was time to confront this ugly reality head-on.  That dreadful excuse for a human being has been re-elected, and we must ask ourselves, “Why?” […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.17.10

TOP NEWS Senate Republicans Vote To Support Earmark Ban Brings Senate GOP in line with House GOP and the White House – wait, what? SSG Salvatore Guinta Receives Medal Of Honor From President First award of the MoH to a living soldier in 40 years Cholera Epidemic In Haiti Expected To Last At Least Six […]

The Wheel Turns

Remember in mid-October 2006, when Instapundit did a rare long-form post about the “pre-mortem” for the Republican mid-term wipeout? And remember when Rush Limbaugh criticized that, leading to complaints that he didn’t read blogs? Rush responded: I’m going to tell you the blog postings that I regularly read in my RSS reader. I’ve communicated with many of the people […]

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