The Other McCain

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

The Uninformed Rick Perry

by Smitty ABC has the news of Rick Perry in New Hampshire: When Rick Perry arrived in New Hampshire one day ago, he repeated the state’s “live free or die” motto, telling an audience, “You’ve got to love that. What Perry may not have loved, however, is the treatment he received just 24-hours later at […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 08.19.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Taliban Storm British Compound In Kabul, Six Killed Truck bomber & splodeydope vs. Gurkha guards World Leaders Urge Assad To Resign Yeah, that’ll work. Another Quake Hits Northwest Japan Tsunami warnings issued for areas already hard hit HP To Leave The PC Business Kills off TouchPad, WebOS phones; looking […]

Obama’s Basic Problem: They Don’t Teach Economics at Harvard Law School

Ace of Spades points out the obvious: When Obama was on this supposed non-political listening tour in swing states, he actually wasn’t presenting a plan, of course. He was promising he would have a plan. That’s odd, isn’t it? All Obama knows about economics is what his neo-Keynesian advisers tell him about the glorious benefits […]

Oh, Boy (and Oh, Girl): ‘Mental Health Professionals’ De-Stigmatize Pedophilia?

They’re academic experts — what could possibly go wrong? The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine “ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process” and how the […]

Fear and Loathing in the Airport Lounge: The Final Wisdom of My Iowa Journey

The National Affairs Desk, Atlanta Airport, 8:30 p.m. HARTSFIELD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Atlanta My flight home starts boarding in about an hour, so this will have to be quick. There is no deadline quite so final as the call for final boarding, so I’ll have to jam this together without thinking about it too much. Michelle […]

‘Violated Online’: The Vicious Arts of Internet Character Assassination

Having previously smeared “Advice Goddess” Amy Alkon, Carl Salonen has now turned his slander machine against Professor Donald Douglas: The allegations are that I’m (1) a child pornographer who (2) requires his students to read his postings. These are breathtaking lies. Carl Salonen submitted not a shred of evidence in support. This is pure, demented […]

I Would Very Much Like to Say That Janeane Garofalo Has Lost Her Mind …

. . . but there isn’t much evidence that she was ever entirely sane: Last night, on failed MSNBC talk host Keith Olbermann’s new Current TV show (a network with less viewers than MSNBC), Janeane Garofalo said Herman Cain must be getting paid to run, has Stockholm Syndrome and that the Tea Party and Conservative […]

Bikini + NASCAR = Traffic Gold!

Canadian beauty Maryeve Dufault will make her NASCAR debut Saturday in Quebec . . .  NASCAR in Quebec? Comment voulez-vous dire “redneck” en français? Never mind. The point is that I learned this after blog traffic spiked because there were a lot of Google searches that led to my July 28 post about Mlle. Dufault. Then I realized […]

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