The Other McCain

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

Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus Will Marry Former Staffer Melodee Hanes

If you’re a regular dude looking for a date, you go to a bar or use an online dating service. If you’re a United States Senator, you just get the taxpayers to hire you a girlfriend: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says he plans to marry his girlfriend and former director of his state offices. Baucus […]

Captain of USS Enterprise Relieved From Duty in Politically Correct Witch Hunt

First, the news: The U.S. Navy will temporarily relieve Capt. Owen Honors of his post pending investigation of the series of explicit videos he is said to have produced when he was second in command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, sources tell ABC News. Capt. Honors is under investigation for a series of raunchy […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.4.10

TOP NEWS Schwartzenegger Catches Flak For Nunez Commutation Young Nunez allegedly bragged connections would get him off. Enterprise Captain To Be Relieved Over Raunchy Videos Many sailors come to his defense on Facebook U.S. Stocks Up In First Day Of 2011 Trading Dow, S&P hit two-year highs POLITICS Jerry Brown Sworn in As 39th Governor […]

Paris Vogue Goes Creepy

Those photos are from the December issue of Paris Vogue, which had a multi-page fashion spread featuring 6- and 7-year-old girls. Jennifer Grant at Christianity Today calls this “Another Assault on Little Girls,” although she says some readers are defending it: Are fans of the December issue correct when they say that those of us […]

Iran TV Blames Jihadist Bombing of Egyptian Church on ‘Zionists’

Because, of course, we know how those Zionists are: The fresh plot by terrorists to target churches is an organized Zionist scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and Christians. A top Shi’ite cleric Hezbollah stooge in Lebanon parrots the propaganda of his masters in Tehran: “This terrorist act bears the fingerprints of Zionists who […]

Tina Brown/Sidney Harman Strangulation of Newsweek Now Nearly Complete

Let’s call it a media “mercy killing”: While the Newsweek/Daily Beast merger was expected to be wrapped up by late November or early December, it has been delayed and is not closing until later this month. . . . That means Tina Brown, the Daily Beast editor-in-chief and former editor of The New Yorker and […]

Sodomy Is Not Pro-Life

Just pointing that out for the benefit of Andrew Sullivan who claims to be Catholic — e.g., his post about Epiphany — and seizes upon Ross Douthat’s pro-life column today to make a plea for “expanding adoption opportunities.” Nudge. Nudge. While it’s tragic, I suppose, that Sully isn’t a zillionaire rock star who can afford […]

Like Roman Polanski, a Hero in France

Julian Assange is Le Monde‘s “Man of the Year”: Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power. who has much more International Hero of World Peace™ news.

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