The Other McCain

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

Gov. Benzene: Huntsman a ‘Green’ Phony

For weeks, I’ve been mystified and irritated by the media’s love affair with Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who joined the Obama administration just about the time most conservatives were joining the Tea Party movement. Why the hell is this guy — “Governor Asterisk,” an irrelevant distraction, a Charlie Crist clone who represents no […]

I’ll Give You Toxic, Rove: I Want Out Of Social Security

by Smitty Understood, Karl, you’re making the point in the context of electoral politics. The calculus is that a third of the country is conservative, another third is wee Socialist sheep, and those cancel. Thus, the election amounts to figuring out who courts the independent third of the country most effectively. The difficulty of this […]

Young, Famous, Beautiful and Stupid

“I love Barack Obama. I voted for him and I will forever be proud of my vote, so I can’t say anything bad against him . . . Why is nobody reading? I feel like, in our generation, people don’t read. . . . They don’t read books, they don’t read the paper, they don’t […]

The Secret Of The Left’s Success: Ignore Inconvenient Facts

by Smitty Greg Sargent cries out from the ComPost: “The secret to the right wing noise machine’s success” It’s simple: Keep making noise, regardless of the facts, and hopefully with a big assist from the major news orgs, until the other side caves from sheer exhaustion, in order to make the noise go away. Conservatives […]

Republican Debate Reaction Round-Up: Romney vs. Perry; Huntsman WTF?

From my point of view, the two biggest questions about last night’s Republican debate were, (a) why was Jon Huntsman on the stage and (b) why did he get so much time? It is absurd to include the man I’ve dubbed “Governor Asterisk” — denoting his status as an irrelevant footnote to the 2012 campaign […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.08.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Delhi Blast: Kashmiri Cyber Cafe Owner Detained E-mail by Harkat ul-Jihad claiming responsibility traced to cyber cafe Russian Hockey Team’s Plane Crashes Among dead: former NHL players Brad McCrimmon, Aleksandr Karpovtsev Obama’s Futile Jobs Plan Salient features leaked so far suggest plan presents nothing new and isn’t big enough […]

Former Playmate Sentenced to Prison for Shooting Her Husband and Starring in ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’

Mainly it was shooting her husband: Former Playboy Playmate Victoria Rathgeb has been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading no contest to the involuntary manslaughter of her husband, RadarOnline.com has learned. The 66-year-old ex-glamour model admitted that she shot her husband of 25 years, Bruce Rathgeb, in the back at their West Hollywood […]

GOP Debate at Simi Valley, California

9:49 p.m. ET: And it’s over! Let the spin begin. If you’re watching this on MSNBC, you’ll get to see Rachel Maddow hosting the post-debate show with Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton and Lawrence O’Donnell. I think I’ll skip it myself. 9:47 p.m. ET: Brian Williams references LBJ in asking a question of Ron […]

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