The Other McCain

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

Problem Perry’s Campaign Denied in September, Confirmed in December

Nobody seems to remember who first raised this issue: Does Pain Explain Perry’s Poor Debate Performances? That was Sept. 23, the day after the Orlando debate, and I’d gotten an e-mail tip from blogger Brian Ledbetter that Rick Perry had undergone back surgery in July. The next day, a top Perry adviser denied to Jennifer […]

Yeshiva Girls Gone Wild

You know you’re reading bad porn when you get lines like this: After all of our secret rendezvouses, I’m still not used to seeing him without his yarmulke on, but this time it’s somewhat of a comfort. Sweetheart: “Rendezvouses“? I’d expel you for bad grammar. This anonymous article in the Yeshiva University Beacon has caused […]

Iowa State University ‘Sexuality’ Professor Heckles Rick Perry at Campaign Event

Warren Blumenfeld, associate professor of “Multicultural & International Curriculum Studies,” academic heckler: A packed coffee house where Rick Perry spoke this afternoon turned into a bit of a ruckus that left the candidate heading out the back door and straight to his vehicle after several Iowans screamed questions about his views on gays. “Why do […]

Barack Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again

Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming. There is only so much of this bulls–t I can endure without talking back to my TV: OBAMA: If I can’t get Republicans to move, partly because they’ve made a political, strategic decision […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.11.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS DNC Says Gingrich The Original Tea Partier LOLWUT? Stop smoking that dope and get serious, Debbie! Obama Makes His Case For Second Term On “60 Minutes” Not done destroying economy, basically Manuel Noriega Extradited To Panama, Will Serve Jail Time Old enough to serve sentences under house arrest POLITICS […]

Reading ‘Trotsky’

For the past few days, my bedtime reading has been Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography. It is my boast that I’ve read more Marx than most Marxists and, as an amateur student of Communism, I’ve long been fascinated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was an early comrade of Lenin, but spent more than a dozen years […]

ACORN Returns as ‘Occupy’

When the radical group ACORN was shut down, Jeff Quinton at Quinton Reports reminds us, the state and local chapters of ACORN reconstituted themselves as new non-profits. And guess what they’ve been up to lately? In more than two dozen cities across the nation Tuesday, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement took on […]

Sex-Change Hormones at Age 11? ‘There Are No Ill Consequences,’ Says Spack

That’s Dr. Norman Spack, M.D.: The Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic can, using hormone therapies, halt puberty in transgender children, blocking the development of secondary sexual characteristics — a beard, say, or breasts — that can make the eventual transition to the other gender more difficult, painful, and costly. Founded in 2007 by endocrinologist […]

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