The Other McCain

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Unintentional Hilarity: Feminists Ask If Julian Assange Committed ‘Rape-Rape’

Exactly why this showed up on Memeorandum, I don’t know, but with a headline like “Some thoughts on ‘sex by surprise,’” I had to click and it’s Jill Filipovic at Feministing: There’s a lot going around in bloglandia and on the interwebs about WikiLeaks honcho Julian Assange’s sexual assault charge in Sweden; commentators are saying […]

VIDEO: Helen Thomas Controversy

I’m kinda thinking: What were the qualifications to receive a “Helen Thomas Diversity Award”? Applicants must write an essay explaining why all the evils of the world should be blamed on Zionists . . . Great video report from Emily Spain at Newsy: Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com Yesterday’s […]

Bristol Palin, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin and the Politics of Sexual Destruction

“Everyone was trying to pit me against Bristol, but the truth is, we got along well. She never asked me to babysit Tripp or anything like that, but I consider her a friend. . . . I really like Bristol as a person. . . . I am proud of her for shaking her ass!” […]

NY-1 UPDATE: Judge Reviewing Ballots, GOP Suspects Illegal Voting by Dems

New York’s 1st District, encompassing eastern Long Island, remains the nation’s last undecided congressional race of 2010. Supporters of Republican challenger Randy Altschuler contend that incumbent Democrat Rep. Tim Bishop was the beneficiary of illegal votes: Absentee ballot counting ground to a halt at 11 a.m. Friday in the only still-undecided congressional race in the […]

Democrats Reward Failure

Of course, that’s the principle of their social-welfare policies, but who thought they’d apply it to politics? Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.) promoted an internal candidate to be the new executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Israel, the new DCCC chairman, announced Monday that Robby Mook would be the committee’s next top staffer. Mook […]

‘A Communicational Schematic That Is Superior to Anything Else in Existence’

On April 7, 2002, a university professor in Tennessee posted this: I keep hearing from people that they started a weblog because of InstaPundit. About a month ago, I asked everyone who did so to email me. I got so many that it took me a while to find the time — and energy — […]

Teacher Convicted of Sex With Teen Asks Judge for Castration Instead of Prison

Weird story from Connecticut: A teacher convicted of sexually assaulting one of his students had an odd request for the judge at his sentencing Thursday. Adam Friedman, 46, offered to be castrated in an effort to avoid prison time. Friedman was an instructor at the Arts at the Capitol Theater magnet school in Willimantic when […]

Ruh-Roh: Bernanke Says Unemployment Won’t Be Back to ‘Normal’ for Five Years

On “60 Minutes” last night: The nation’s unemployment rate, which has been over 9 percent for a record 19 months, is not likely to return to “a more normal unemployment rate” of about 5 percent or 6 percent for four or five years, the Federal Reserve chairman said in an interview with the CBS News […]

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