The Other McCain

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

Who Is Michael Scherer?

Among other things, Michael Scherer co-wrote the thoroughly dishonest Time magazine cover story claiming that Barack Obama admires Ronald Reagan. In fact, Barack Obama despises Ronald Reagan and everything Reagan stood for, and so does Michael Scherer. You know who really admires Ronald Reagan? Sarah Palin. And so let’s look at what Michael Scherer thinks […]

In Desperation Move, Egyptian Regime Shuts Down Access to Iowahawk

Also, the entire freaking Internet: [I]n an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.28.11

TOP NEWS Power Brokers’ Ties Complicate The Ballot Process It’s the Chicago way! Israel Concerned For Mubarak’s Survival Would a populist successor maintain the peace? Unrest Spreads To Yemen Tens of thousands march against President Saleh’s government FBI Executes 40 Search Warrants Related To “Operation Payback” Evidence sought against hackers who launched DDoS attacks in […]

Jim Moran: ‘Raaaaacism!’

Smitty’s in Kabul, so it’s my job to keep you informed of the embarrassing shenanigans of his congresstool: Speaking to Arab television network Alhurra, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said Republicans made big gains in November in part because “a lot of people in this country … don’t want to be governed by an African-American.” Even […]

8-Year-Old Girl Raped by Illegal Alien

Front page of today’s Washington Post: Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place. Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and he sneaked […]

Egyptian Regime Unraveling?

You know, I seem to remember a U.S. president who had this crazy idea that overthrowing Saddam Hussein might help encourage the spread of democracy in the Mideast: Police fought protesters in two cities in eastern Egypt on Thursday and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei arrived back in the country to join a major […]

No, Smitty Did Not Write a Novel

This headline could be unfortunately misleading: Revealed: Former McCain Aide Is Anonymous Author of ‘O: A Presidential Novel’ No, it wasn’t our loyal co-blogger, but rather a former aide to Senator John McCain who has been identified: It was obvious from skimming ‘O: A Presidential Novel,’ written by anonymous and published Tuesday after an intense […]

Health Care and the ‘N-Word’

Last week, when I did a post about efforts to promote state nullification of ObamaCare, my friend Ali Akbar joked on Twitter that I was using the “n-word,” but now apparently nullification is the latest rage: BOISE, Idaho — Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals of American history […]

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