The Other McCain

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

Labor Department Blames Snow for Increase in Weekly Unemployment

It’s kind of a dog-ate-my-homework excuse: More Americans than forecast filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance payments last week, indicating it will take time for the labor market to mend. Applications for jobless benefits increased by 51,000 to 454,000 in the week ended Jan. 22, Labor Department figures showed today. Economists forecast 405,000 claims, according […]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

“His theme last night in the State of the Union was the WTF, you know, ‘Winning the Future,’ and I thought OK, that acronym, spot on. There were a lot of WTF moments throughout that speech.” — Sarah Palin

America, the Doomed

Thank you, Democrats, for creating the Ponzi scheme that will bankrupt our nation: Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates. The massive retirement program has […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.27.11

TOP NEWS Anti-Government Protests Continue To Rock Egypt Four killed, dozens wounded, hundreds arrested in second day of violent protests Congress Likely To Heed President’s Call To Cut Corporate Rates Tax Foundation says Japan’s April cut likely to force action House Armed Services Committee Chair Challenges Obama’s Defense Cuts McKeon: “The concern I have is […]

Police Say Texas Man Strangled His Children’s 15-Year-Old Babysitter

Nancy Grace featured this story tonight: A body found near Lubbock, Texas, has been identified as that of a baby sitter seen in a motel surveillance video with a man charged in the case, authorities said Wednesday. The medical examiner identified the remains found Monday about seven miles outside of the city as belonging to […]

Snowed In!

STAUNTON, Virginia My plan to make it back home tonight got changed by the snowstorm. After I got north of Lexington, driving conditions on I-81 deteriorated rapidly. I called my wife, who suggested I get off the road and check into a motel. The place by the interstate was full up, but the clerk offered […]

‘Peace For Our Time’

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Diplomacy triumphed here Tuesday night, as Professor Glenn Reynolds and Robert Stacy McCain agreed to a treaty hailed as the greatest achievement for world peace since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939. The treaty was reached after hours of strenuous negotiations at Calhoun’s BBQ on Kingston Pike. The specific terms of the agreement […]

Chris Matthews: ‘Balloonhead!’

Interviewing Sal Russo of the Tea Party Express, Matthews decides he wants to talk about Michelle Bachmann, and becomes angry when Russo won’t play along. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Via Memeorandum.

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