The Other McCain

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

Good News! Unemployment Hits 9.8%

It’s the most wonderful time of the year isn’t it? New York Times: In a jolting surprise to the economic recovery and market expectations, the United States economy added just 39,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, according to the Department of Labor. Did somebody say “surprise”? Yes! Which can […]

VIDEO: Mall Food Court Surprised by Flash-Mob Singing ‘Hallelujah Chorus’

(Hat-tip: Shona Darress.)

Dear Zionist Overlords . . .

. . . it looks like Helen Thomas is onto our game here: “We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where there mouth is. . . .” […]

Malkin and Coulter Underrated?

Conservative Home, a new Web site run by people you never heard of, has published the results of a survey of “1,152 Republican activists” identifying their favorite pundits. The top five are Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Charles Krauthammer, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity — i.e., the top talk-radio star, three Fox News hosts and and […]

Narcissism, Isolation and Trolls

“The 19th-century cult of success . . . measured achievement not against the achievements of others but against  an abstract ideal of discipline and self-denial. At the turn of the century, however, preachments on success began to stress the will to win. The bureaucratization of the corporate career changed the conditions of self-advancement; ambitious young […]

Happy Hannukah From Sarah Palin

Her Facebook page: As Jewish families all over the country and the world come together to celebrate the festival of lights – the miracle of one day’s worth of oil lasting for eight – we are reminded that this holiday is also about the miracle of taking a stand against impossible odds, surviving existential threats, […]

Scratch Newt for 2012

He lost me at “not”: “We are not going to deport 11 million people,” Gingrich said Thursday as he kicked off his first forum on Latino issues. “There has to be some zone between deportation and amnesty.” We are also not going to be able to kill or capture every terrorist in the world, but we […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.03.10

TOP NEWS House Votes 333-79 To Censure Rangel For Ethics Violations Long history of violations weighed heavily against him Lame Duck  Congress Does Tax Bill Kabuki Symbolic vote by House to preserve tax rates for lower & middle-class taxpayers unlikely to pass Senate Troopers Report Slow But Steady Progress In Clearing NY State Thruway Highway […]

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