The Other McCain

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

Ezra Klein Offers Hope!

Just two hours ago, I was saying we’re totally screwed on The Pork-Laden Bipartisan Legislative Gang-Rape Atrocity From Hell otherwise known as the tax-cut “compromise.” But liberal Democrats in the House are still talking smack, and Ezra Klein thinks they might be crazy enough to blow the whole deal: If I were the White House, […]

BREAKING: Gunman Opens Fire During School Board Meeting in Florida; UPDATE: Inspired by ‘V for Vendetta’? UPDATE: Gunman ID’d as Clay Duke, Claimed ‘Wealthy . . . Enslave 95% of the Population’; Shot Himself, Police Say

Total weirdness: PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A gunman opened fire during a Florida Panhandle school board meeting Tuesday, police said. . . . WMBB television reporter Nadeen Yanes told her station that the man came up to the podium at the Bay District School Board meeting and said he had a motion. He then […]

In Which Ace of Spades Notices the Big Tax ‘Compromise’ Is Greased With Pork

“Obama needs this deal as much as the Republicans want it. We do not have to play the shakedown game and pay him off in billions to get him to do what he is already forced to do.” — Ace of Spades, “The Porky Tax Deal” This is kinda like the moment at which a […]

International Hero of World Peace Julian Assange Free to Rape Again? Not Yet

The Swedes seem determined to deprive the LeakyWicker of further opportunities for semi-consensual condomless sex with socialist women: The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is to remain in jail after the Swedish authorities decided to challenge a decision by a British court to grant him bail on allegations of rape in Stockholm. A judge in London […]

The Fierce Fury of the Angry Mob of Impassioned Bipartisan Moderates

Few things are more predictable than this: Whenever Republicans are on the upswing — whenever conservatives are on fire with enthusiasm, proclaiming their core principles and clearly on the winning side of important issues — the mainstream media will devote enormous coverage to an alleged groundswell of discontented moderates whose demands for “bipartisanship” and “civility” […]

Bernie Sanders Be Damned: Tax Bill Wins Senate Cloture Vote by Huge 83-15 Margin

Late yesterday afternoon, the Senate held its cloture vote on the compromise deal that would extend the Bush tax cuts for another two years. Despite weeks of shameless demagoguery about tax cuts for “millionaires, billionaires and these big CEOs who ship jobs overseas” (to quote Harry Reid)  and the filibuster by Vermont’s socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, the […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.14.10

TOP NEWS Veteran Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Dies, 69 Died from ruptured aorta; surgery proved fruitless Judge Hudson Strikes Down Obamacare Mandate Virginia’a argument that mandate not permitted under the Commerce Clause prevails Steele Hardens Up, Will Run Again For RNC Chairman Criticized for fund raising, financial missteps; several challengers appear POLITICS Senate Approves Tax Compromise […]

When Bunnies Go Bad: 1968 Playmate of the Year Faces Prison for Shooting

She was known as Angela Dorian, but her real name was Victoria Vetri and she was what you’d call a starlet. Beginning at age 19, she appeared in a number of small roles on TV series — Cheyenne, Wagon Train, McHale’s Navy, Bonanza, Perry Mason, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. — prior to becoming the 1967 […]

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