The Other McCain

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

Ace on ‘Context’

The thuggery against Tabitha Hale compels him: The media slips an awful lot past the public with the word “context.” They frequently claim they don’t carry stories like this because the “context” doesn’t support making it worthy of mention. . . . 1. We don’t have to patrol the left for violence because the left […]

Tax Time

Please excuse the relative shortage of blogging this afternoon, because I’ll be at the accountant’s office, going through my annual ordeal. If there’s one thing a self-employed freelance journalist/blogger dreads, it’s tax time. Back in the old days, when I had a regular job with a salary, my taxes were simple enough that I could do […]

Hate, Inc.

The Southern Poverty Law Center continues its Exaggeration for Dollars campaign, as Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection documents. They still claim that the Klan is on the march in Rhode Island (???) and 2010 was another banner year for hate groups, says the SPLC: For the second year in a row, the radical right in America expanded […]

Our Very Foreign Policy

Yesterday, President Obama managed to say that Moammar Qaddafi’s crackdown in Libya is a bad thing, without actually mentioning Moammar Qaddafi by name. Look, man: Nobody’s asking you to spell his name, OK? Nobody can agree on how to spell it.

Koch Brothers: Inside the Left’s Head

John Hinderaker at Powerline: “The most extraordinary story in the news these days is the all-out assault that the Left is mounting against Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Enterprises.” The Kochs are to this decade what “Big Oil” was to the Bush era: The Left’s all-purpose villain. Last month I wrote about […]

Jeff G. Schools Shep Smith

“Let me clue you in here, you vapid hair-do . . .” Just in case you’re wondering when Jeff went sour on Shep, let’s go back to September 2005, when Shep’s melodramatic flair was viciously satirized here, here and here. Shep brings to his coverage the kind of detached stoicism one usually finds on the front row of a […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.24.11

TOP NEWS Qadhafi Loyalists Dig In To Defend Tripoli As Revolt Spreads Rebel forces take Misurata; heavy fighting reported in Sabratha Obama Tells Qaddafi Violence Must Stop Yeah, that’ll leave a mark Hopes Fade In Christchurch As Search Continues 92 dead so far from yesterday’s quake; over 200 still missing and unaccounted for POLITICS DOJ […]

‘Bad Jew!’

A Jewish supporter of FreedomWorks is confronted by a leftist protester who accuses him of “not healing the world” (tikkun olam): (From Ben Howe at Red State.) This angry woman screaming “bad Jew” exemplifies the moralistic radical certainy of the Left. For all their sermons about “civility, ” the Left never hesitates to unleash this […]

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