The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.25.10

TOP NEWS The Hammer Falls: Tom DeLay Convicted Of Money Laundering Former majority leader could get 5-99 years Administration Counting On PRC To Rein In Norks? Experts say PRC more often part of the problem. “Opt Out Day” Protests Fizzle; Holiday Air Travel Gets Off To Smooth Start Worst traffic problem turns out to be […]

Total Security Absurdity

Gropegate continues to make news and inspire commentary: Allahpundit rounds up the news. Jeff Dunentz explains why they don’t need to “touch your junk” at Israeli airports. David Weigel notes that libertarian financiers the Koch brothers have become to the fringe Left what the Bavarian Illuminati are to the fringe Right. Ann Coulter, meanwhile, offers a relevant […]

No Argument Here

Whatever else you want to argue with on Alex Pareene’s list of America’s worst hacks — my original criticisms here — no one can possibly disagree with his choice for No. 1: The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen has been a columnist since 1976. He’s good friends with Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. He works one day a […]

‘Year of the Pro-Life Woman’

Press release: Today, the Susan B. Anthony List celebrated the election of the eighth pro-life woman U.S. Representative in the 112th Congress and a major upset in Ann Marie Buerkle’s defeat of pro-abortion incumbent Dan Maffei. “Ann Marie Buerkle’s win is historic for women, the unborn and New York’s 25th Congressional District,” SBA List President […]

The USS George Washington: When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best

Jimmie Bise is right: “Nothing Sends a Message Like an Aircraft Carrier,” and President Obama seems to have realized that godless commie dictators aren’t going to be persuaded by mere words: The Pentagon has dispatched the aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS George Washington to the Yellow Sea for naval exercises with South […]

Nine Key States for 2012

Jennifer Rubin identifies the Democratic senators who are most vulnerable in the next cycle: Jon Tester, Bill Nelson, Jim Webb, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Sherrod Brown, and Kent Conrad, for starters. That’s a total of seven Democrats who voted for (were all the 60th vote for) ObamaCare, supported the stimulus plan, and come from states […]

Sarah Palin Schools Gawker

Ruby Slipppers has the details: Days after Sarah Palin and her publisher Harper Collins scored a major win  over the mean team at Gawker, we learn a settlement has been reached.   Alas, there won’t be a TSA screening  for Gawker at the hands of Sarah Palin any time soon.  While some may be disappointed the attorneys […]

Your Daily Charlie Sheen Update

Sorry, “obligatory” wouldn’t fit in the headline. When last we left Charlie, he was suing his porn-star date in a filing that called her an “opportunistic scam artist.” Oh, but that wasn’t what Charlie was saying in the text messages he sent her the day after their rendezvous: In one text, Charlie says, “All I need […]

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