The Other McCain

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

Second Half of the ‘W’?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 113 points Friday, having lost 1,181 points (10%) since its recent peak of 11,205 on April 26, and 4,069 points (29%) below its historic high of 14,093 on Oct. 12, 2007. For the past two weeks, the Dow has been struggling to stay above the 10,000 level. To close below that […]

Douchebag Coalition Wants FCC to Regulate ‘Hate Speech’ in New Media

We await the federal bureaucracy’s ruling on whether “douchebag” constitutes hate speech: Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on “hate speech” and “misinformation” in media. “Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as ‘news’,” they wrote to the FCC . . . […]

Associated Press: Bias? What Bias?

Strictly neutral and objective: Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis. Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation […]

Tipper Gore — Available!

First, Al Gore invented the Internet. Then, he announced his separation via e-mail: Al and Tipper Gore, whose playful romance enlivened Washington and the campaign trail for a quarter century, have decided to separate after 40 years of marriage, the couple told friends Tuesday. In an “Email from Al and Tipper Gore,” the couple said: […]

Hellfire Missile 1, Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri 0

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports another U.S. victory: US officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda’s No. 3 — Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid, known as Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid – has been killed. Al Qaeda released a eulogy of Shaikh Sa’id tonight, officials said. . . . US officials believed him […]

Siccing the FBI on Little Miss Attila?

No, the Obama administration isn’t after our blog friend. When she was a young teenager back in the 1970s, Little Miss Attila spent a few years in a church that she now describes as a cult. That has not endeared her to those who remain within the flock of minister R.L. Hymers Jr., nor has […]

It Was Not ‘Violence-Violence’

by Smitty (via Memeorandum) Andrew Sullivan treats us to the Full Whoopi in relating the IDF raid on the Gaza flotilla, emphasis mine: A simple point. The violence by the activists is pretty abhorrent. These are not followers of Gandhi or MLK Jr. But the violence is not fatal to anyone and it is in […]

Matthew Yglesias Attempts — And Rather Sadly Fails — to Understand Economics

It’s kind of touching, really. Like watching an infant attempting to walk and falling down: We right now have the capacity to produce more—much more—than has ever been produced before in the history of the planet. There are dozens of supply-side policies that could be improved in every country on earth, but that’s not a […]

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