The Other McCain

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

Wisconsin Senate Seat Open for 2012 as Democrat Kohl Announces Retirement

This is very bad news for Democrats: U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl said he would not seek re-election next fall, believing it’s better to “leave a job a little too early than a little too late.” Kohl, 76, said it is time to give someone else the opportunity to serve in the seat he has held […]

Celebrity Herpes or Hollywood Hoax?

The amazing stuff you can learn by reading Wombat’s daily “Live at Five” headline round-up: A well-known “A-list” celebrity has reportedly been sued by a plaintiff who claims that the celebrity “swore he was STD free” prior to their hook-up in Las Vegas, which included unprotected sexual intercourse. Now the plaintiff has herpes and is […]

Obama Lies About Unemployment

Just flat-out makes up “facts” during a town-hall meeting on the economy in D.C. hosted by CBS News: “The reason the unemployment rate is still as high as it is, in part, is because there have been huge layoffs of government workers at the federal level, at the state level, at the local level . […]

Kiss and Tell at the Revolving Door

When Joe Biden’s press secretary, former Time magazine reporter Jay Carney, was promoted to White House press secretary, Washington Post reporter Shailagh Murray was hired as Carney’s replacement. Now, New York magazine reports: Murray was not the first journalist considered to handle Biden’s press. Both CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid and Slate’s chief political correspondent […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.13.11

TOP NEWS Pakistan Army Chief Alleged To Resist US Demands More proof that Pakistan isn’t a country with its own army, it’s an army with a country attached Suicide Bombers Kill 70 Outside Pakistani Paramilitary Base Recruits for Frontier Constabulary targeted Levee Inspectors Hunt For Stealthy Leaks Along Mississippi Inspectors keeping a wary eye out […]

CSI: Sonoma, California

Supply your own punchline: Blind man confused over ‘mystery enema’ Veteran police officers have been left dumfounded after a partially-sighted man claimed a woman entered his apartment, gave him an enema, and promptly left. .The 53-year-old Californian man answered the door to a woman who claimed she was there to give him an enema. As […]

The Lutheran Menace!

Radical Lutheran fundamentalists strike again: Two men arrested in relation to an alleged terror plot in New York City were of Moroccan and Algerian descent, FOX News reported Thursday. Moroccan Mohammad Mamdouh and Algerian Ahmed Serhani were arrested late Wednesday and were expected to be charged under the state’s terrorism laws

Another Bad Liberal Idea That Failed

“Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f–ing Peace Corps.” — Joseph “Bluto” Blutarsky, upon learning he and the other members of Delta Tau Chi are being expelled from Faber College, in Animal House (1978) The Peace Corps was created by President John F. Kennedy as a haven for draft-dodgers […]

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