The Other McCain

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

Democrat Attacked After Vitriolic Rhetoric From Sarah Palin … No? Never Mind.

Actually, the attacker only intended to attack Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Missouri), but mistakenly slashed the throat of Penn Valley Community College Dean Albert Dimmitt: That happened last September and the reason you never saw this story in the national news is because the attacker was a left-wing anarchist: In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was […]

Herman Cain Tops Santorum, Christie, Daniels, Pence, Huckabee in N.H.

OK, that’s not the headline on the Politico story, but the order of finish in the New Hampshire GOP straw poll was lots more interesting than the news that Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul: Romney won with 35 percent, beating second-place finisher Ron Paul by 24 points in the WMUR-ABC News straw poll of members […]

‘Man Was Born Free, And He Is Everywhere In Chains. . .’

by Smitty “. . .especially where the ideas of Rousseau are linked,” to paraphrase ol’ Jean Jacques. If Kabul was a movie, it would be Groundhog Day. I can’t lay any claim to the big picture, but I hope all the blood and treasure invested here amounts to something. The tempermental WiFi service was OK […]

Religious Left Infiltrates Catholic Agency?

Lisa Graas reports: According to a document revealed by Creative Minority Report (CMR), we now have definitive proof that the pro-abortion mindset dwells even at the highest levels of the

We Need to Tone Down the Rhetoric

Otherwise, all this extremist talk about “choice” and “women’s rights” might lead to mass murder:  A massacre perpetrated by a deranged man is not about the deranged man; it’s about “rhetoric.” But a massacre perpetrated by an abortion provider whose violations against laws of the nation and of humanity were overlooked for years is “not […]

Mom’s Boyfriend ‘Person of Interest’ in Texas Cheerleader’s Disappearance

This is one of those missing-girl cases that Nancy Grace is always covering. If you’ve seen enough stories like this, the patterns become familiar, and this one’s starting to look like a murder investigation: Dogs searching a landfill in Abilene, Texas, found evidence in the case of a missing 13-year-old girl from West Texas, a […]

The Decline and Fall of Lizardopolis

During yesterday’s Little Green Footballs dust-up, I recalled that a couple weeks ago, Diary of Daedalus posted these interesting charts illustrating the declining participation of commenters at Little Green Footballs: What you see is that, at its peak in 2007-08, LGF routinely had 1,500-2,000 different people — identified in the chart as “unique nics” (nicknames) […]

Bank Crisis Continues; United Western Becomes Biggest Failure in Five Months

Isn’t “recovery” wonderful? State regulators shut down four banks on Friday, bringing the new year’s total number of bank failures to seven, following 157 bank closures during 2010. Three of the four failed banks — Enterprise Banking Co., CommunitySouth Bank & Trust, and The Bank of Asheville — had been previously included in TheStreet’s Bank […]

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