The Other McCain

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

On Media, Money and Membership

“Since 2003, Soros has spent more than $48 million funding media properties, including the infrastructure of news — journalism schools, investigative journalism and even industry organizations.” — Dan Gainor, Vice President for Business and Culture, Media Research Center Did Mitt Romney Mention That He Can Raise $10.25 Million in Eight Hours? — New York magazine […]

REVEALED: The Secret Source Who Helped U.S. Forces Get Bin Laden

Last night, I received an e-mail tip: The Pentagon just released a photo of the Pakistani man who gave the CIA credible information that led them to Osama bin Laden. He is eligible to get the $25M reward the US Gov’t was offering. Now we can reveal this exclusive photo:

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Love Children (Yep. I Said ‘Children,’ Which Is Plural)

The first fallout of Tuesday’s big reveal: A 2003 story by the Daily Mail about Tanner Tousignant — teenage son of a former stewardess on Arnold’s private jet — suddenly seems a lot more credible. However, when Gawker recycled the Tanner tale, the reporter on that old Daily Mail story said, “Nuh-uh. That’s the wrong love child. […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.18.11

TOP NEWS Senator Coburn Quits “Gang Of Six” “I’m not going to put my credibility on the line for something that I don’t think will fix the problem.” Apparently Senate Dems can’t face reality that Social Security, Medicare are broke; agreement that spending needs to be cut but no agreement on what’s going to get […]

Rachel Maddow’s ‘Man Cave’ Moment: Planned Parenthood Does Oil Changes?

Monday night on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow went off on a tangent so incredibly weird that it is almost impossible to describe. The topic was Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who had apparently signed legislation defunding Planned Parenthood in his state. Maddow then evidently decided that guys in the audience failed to understand why Planned Parenthood is […]

Tina Brown + Newsbeast = Profit?

Tina Brown, empress of the recently merged Newsweek/Daily Beast, tells Joe Pompeo of Yahoo that her operation will be profitable at some point “in the next two to three years.” Mark your calendars, then: Newsbeast will be in the black by May 2014 at the latest. According to Tina Brown, that is. Do you trust […]

Newtmania: Not Happening

Ed Morrissey writes up a blogger conference call that Newt Gingrich held today, as does Philip Klein at the Examiner: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, speaking on a Tuesday conference call held to respond to his controversial comments about Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget, said that he didn’t go into his interview with NBC’s David Gregory […]

Stuff Spell-Check Won’t Fix

Sissy Willis re-Tweeted a link to a post at The Anchoress in which Max Lindenman talks about the growing menace of bad punctuation, including people who don’t know the God-Fearing American Way of putting commas or periods inside the quotation marks. Go read Lindeman’s post, and then come back here and we’ll have a little […]

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