The Other McCain

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

Google & Bing Treating Rick Santorum To Some Of That ‘New Tone’

by Smitty Alan Colmes points to Roll Call, where something completely tasteless is on display: Try it for yourself: Enter “Rick Santorum” into Google. In a fraction of a second you’ll have hundreds of thousands of results. But two of the top four cite a graphic definition for a sexual neologism. In this case, the […]

The Avoidance of Responsibility: Liberals Exculpate Themselves for Obama’s Failure

Nothing is more important to liberals than avoiding responsiblity for the failures of liberalism, and the debacle that is the Obama administration thus requires extraordinary efforts at blameshifting and scapegoating. Fortunately for liberals, there is Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men, a new book that tells them what they want to hear. You can read Dave Weigel’s […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.21.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS America Expands Drone Bases In Africa, Arabia New bases in Ethiopia and the Seychelles aim to cripple Al Qaeda attempts to shift operations away from Afghanistan Another Chapter Of Destruction For Japan Typhoon Roke hits already-devastated Fukushima prefecture Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency For Troy Davis Convicted cop-killer’s appeals […]

We Already Know They Don’t Teach Economics at Harvard Law School

But you might think they’d require an introductory course in logic, because Dwayne Lester shows how invalid fallacies are the only arguments made in favor of Obama’s “Buffett Rule” requiring tax increases on the rich.

‘MuffinGate’: Obama Says We Must Tax the Rich Because Federal Officials Can’t Do Without $5 Swedish Meatballs

The rich must “pay their fair share” or Obama will veto any deficit-reduction legislation. Why? Because the only alternative is to reduce the catering bill: U.S. Justice Department agencies spent too much for food at conferences, in one case serving $16 muffins and in another dishing out beef Wellington appetizers that cost $7.32 per serving, an […]

The Irony of Tucker Carlson, Sarah Palin, Mike Tyson, Greta Van Susteren and … Me

Scene from “Daily Caller Downfall” “In Ohio, which McGovern eventually lost by a slim 19,000 vote margin, his handlers figure perhaps 10,000 of those were directly attributable to his public association with Warren Beatty, who once told a reporter somewhere that he favored legalizing grass. This was picked up by that worthless a–hole Sen. Henry […]

‘It Gets Better,’ Except When It Doesn’t and Then Teenagers Commit Suicide

If you haven’t paid much attention to public schools in recent years, you may not realize that “anti-bullying” messages are now ubiquitous, often promoted in the name of “tolerance” for gay youth. And this theme has atracted outspoken support from Hollywood celebrities: Last September, the “It Gets Better Project” was launched online as a place for […]

Creepy Joe: ‘Sarah Incites Hatred’

Joe McGinniss on NBC’s Today show, June 1, 2010 “On the other side of a tall fence that Todd built to protect what remains of his family’s privacy is a rental home currently occupied by Joe McGinniss, a journalist with a contract for a book about Palin. When McGinniss moved in and the Palins complained […]

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