The Other McCain

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

Liberals Love a Greedy Sexist Capitalist

If his name is Hugh Hefner: What other company does so much for its top guy? Consider this from the company’s regulatory filing, which has a hilariously detached explanation for why it pays the expenses of an old lecher. A passage reads, “Crystal Harris, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Karissa Shannon, Kristine Shannon and Kendra Wilkinson, the […]

Dream Date: Youth Prison

From the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The New York State Commission of Correction says top officials and staff were irresponsible when they authorized and failed to supervise a party at a youth prison where some violent offenders had sex with dates. The commission faults the Office of Children and Family Services […]

Democrats Have Their Economic Excuse Ready: Blame Rahm Emanuel!

Paul Krugman is the de facto leader of those neo-Keynesians who say the problem with Obamanomics is that the stimulus package wasn’t big enough. And he links to this interview with Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.) who points the finger at Rahm: The problem for Obama, he wasn’t as lucky as Roosevelt, because when Obama took […]

Fail Mosque Jokers Really Annoy

by Smitty This week’s FMJRA offers Scalia body language to New York City Minor Bloomberg, who loses the respect of the title ‘Mayor’ from this blog, due to a pattern of invertebrate cretinous behavior. To Brussels with your dhimmitude, Bloomberg. Over in the comments on the Geller post, Kn@ppster makes a straight libertarian play on […]

Who Is Todd Gaziano?

That’s the question raised by the Ben Smith column at Politico in which Abigail Thernstrom accuses her fellow Republican members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission of exploiting the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in pursuit of “their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.” Thernstrom herself is well-known as a […]

Angelo M. Codevilla, Populist

OK, he’s a professor emeritus at Boston University, but his new article at The American Spectator is a 12,000-word indictment of the nation’s ruling class so thorough that I can only snap my suspenders and say, “Harumph!”

It’s FDIC Failed-Bank Friday!

How’s that “recovery summer” workin’ out for ya? Regulators on Friday shut down three banks in Florida, two in South Carolina and one in Michigan, bringing to 96 the number of U.S. banks to succumb this year to the recession and mounting loan defaults. . . . With 96 closures nationwide so far this year, […]

Fruit, Vegetable, Or Solid Red Meat?

by Smitty (h/t NiceDeb) One clip is the fruit of a corrupt mind, the other is from the Onion. They’re both creepy. Seriously: have public speakers in the United States always engaged in the kind of deliberate deceit that this Shelton fellow does, or has the merger of news, entertainment and politics taken propaganda in […]

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