The Other McCain

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

Say It Ain’t So, Alcee!

Rep. Alcee Hastings, the Florida Democrat who was elected to Congress after being impeached for bribery as a federal judge, has been accused of sexual harassment: A congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings sexually harassed a member of his staff, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.23.11

TOP NEWS Obama To Speed Afghan Withdrawal Surge forces to be out by next summer, remainder of troops by 2014 Plan immediately draws bipartisan fire Bernanke Urges Caution On Spending Cuts As Fed Predicts Slower Growth QE2 to end this month as expected Muted Welcome For Release Of Ai Weiwei Dissident artist released on bail; […]

Iraq Vet Killed by Drunk ‘Jackass’ Buddy

Zachary Hartwell was a 30-year-old Navy veteran who had been married less than a year. In the wee hours of Monday morning, after drinking at a bar in West Chester, Pa., Hartwell made the mistake of climbing into “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn’s Porsche. Dunn’s blood-alcohol level was .196 — more than twice the legal limit […]

Al Gore, Population Control Expert

“One of the things we could do about [global warming] is to change the technologies, to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the population, and one of the principle ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and women. You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can […]

O.J. Confesses … to Oprah?

Evidently he told one of her producers in a jailhouse interview that, indeed, he killed his ex-wife Nichole and her friend Ron Goldman. We already knew he did it. Now he’s reportedly claiming that these heinous murders were committed in self-defense. Because those white bitches, they’re so dangerous, see? Unless you cut their throats from […]

IRS Strips CAIR of Charity Status

About damned time, too: Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service. The groups failed to file required annual reports, known as form 990s, detailing their revenues and expenses, for three consecutive years. […]

Palin Parks Her Bus

Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics — who got an early scoop about the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated — seems mystifed by the pause in her “One Nation” bus tour: Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have […]

A Christian Virgin in Hollywood?

Sixteen-year-old Courtney Alexis Stodden, pictured above, is said to be an aspiring singer, but no one had ever heard of her until she married 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison: “We’re aware that our vast age difference is extremely controversial,” the couple told E! News in a statement released by their spokesperson. “But we’re very much in […]

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