The Other McCain

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

VIDEO: Herman Cain on Sean Hannity Show: ‘The Sleeping Giant Has Awakened’

From Fire Andrea Mitchell: Steve Foley at Citizens for Cain looks at polls indicating the GOP needs a “fresh face” for 2012. Meanwhile, Herman Cain will join Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann at a Feb. 7 forum in Iowa — but Mitt Romney isn’t returning calls from the organizers.

You’re Not Disgusted Enough Yet

“Bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building. . . . A row of jars containing severed feet lined a shelf. . . . Untrained, unsupervised workers injected dangerous drugs into women undergoing illegal late-term abortions.” — Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams Everybody blogged about this Wednesday, but I don’t think it […]

Patterico: ‘Charles Johnson Doesn’t Care About Context or Truth Any More’

“I was such a small fish at the time. I realized I was basically committing blog suicide by going against him. But he was wrong.” — Pamela Geller, January 2010 It’s interesting how easy it has become to ignore Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs. A couple weeks ago, Diary of Daedalus or the Blogmocracy […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.21.11

TOP NEWS House GOP Seeking To Cut Budget Back to 2008 Levels Republican Study Committee proposes cut to 2006 budget levels over the next decade Surprise Over Nork Offer Of High-Level Military Talks Also, PRC warned to rein in Norks Obama Moving Political Offices To Chicago First moves to start up re-election campaign already underway […]

Jesse Walker on Loughner and Zeitgeist

In the immediate aftermath of the Tucson massacre, the mainstream media went chasing after “right-wing” phantoms, as the managing editor of Reason magazine explains: In the meantime, people who actually knew the killer were talking to the press, dropping clues about what Loughner really was reading and viewing. Loughner’s friend Zach Osler, for example, told ABC that while […]

Remember When MTV Played Music?

Some youngsters might find it hard to believe that, in the misty dawn of primitive cable programming, MTV stood for “Music Television,” and they played videos by popular bands and singers. That was before they decided that teen sex was where the big money is: MTV executives have a new hit drama on their hands, […]

Howard Dean: ‘Fight to Stop Right-Wing Republicans From Rolling Back Progress’

It’s helpful sometimes for conservatives to take a peek inside the echo chambers of liberalism, which is why I subscribe to a few mailing lists, including Democracy For America (DFA) which sent me this e-mail from Howard Dean: Robert – We’ve come a long way together over the years. We’ve had many victories and our […]

Fear of a Republican Uterus

James Taranto gets very close to the core of the dynamic behind Palin Derangement Syndrome:  Why does their hatred of her burn so hot? Ask them, and they’ll most likely tell you: Because she’s a moron. But that is obviously false. . . . They say she is uneducated. What they mean is that her […]

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