The Other McCain

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

Ruh-Roh, Again: Chinese Now Worried About Inflation, Raise Interest Rates

First, the end of QE2, and now Beijing tightens up credit: China staged its third interest rate increase since October on Tuesday, the latest sign of the authorities’ intensifying efforts to temper the blistering pace of economic growth and prevent already worrisome inflation levels from escalating further. The central bank in Beijing raised its benchmark […]

Death by Political Correctness

“The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom loving citizens who criticize Islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger. … […]

Michael Moore Announces New Film: Those Greedy Jews Ripped Me Off!

The award-winning documentary director has filed a lawsuit claiming that producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein cheated him out of $2.7 million of his share of proceeds for Fahrenheit 9/11 using “Hollywood accounting tricks.” Meanwhile, Moore is reportedly hard at work on plans for future projects, including Never Trust Those Crooked Bagel-Eating Yid Bastards and a comedy called […]

Shocked! Shocked!

A psychology professor discovers only three conservatives in an audience of a thousand of his academic peers, a fact that surprises no one who knows anything about academia, and particularly not Professor William Jacobson.

Ruh-Roh: Fed to End QE2?

How will markets react to the end of “quantitative easing”? Today, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher . . . said that he will not support any further QE expansion beyond the current $600 Billion Treasury buying program which is set to expire in June. The era of fiscal stimulus is over and now, if the […]

Spotted Owls and Moderate Democrats

Both of them are endangered species: The Democratic Leadership Council, the iconic centrist organization of the Clinton years, is out of money and could close its doors as soon as next week, a person familiar with the plans said Monday. The DLC, a network of Democratic elected officials and policy intellectuals had long been fading […]

Because MSNBC Wasn’t Obscure Enough

Keith Olbermann has reportedly been hired by some left-wing cable network you never even heard of before. If his career keeps going in this direction, Olbermann will eventually end up hawking cubic zirconia jewelry on Home Shopping Network.

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.8.11

TOP NEWS Gibbs: Egypt Faces Bumpy Process Of Transition To Democracy Administration finally gets that Mubarak will leave when he’s ready President Says Businesses Must Invest, Hire To Grow Economy No, really? Uneasy Peace Holds After Thailand/Cambodia Clash Intense regional pressure to stop the fighting POLITICS Jane Harman Resigns, Thinning Already Depleted Ranks Of Democrats’ […]

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