The Other McCain

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

VIDEO: Andrew Breitbart vs. Bill Maher

Via Breitbart TV and Memeorandum.

The Politics of Nostalgia

It turns out that “progress” involves a giant leap backward for a lot of progressives, including Paul Krugman. This is the burden of Jim Manzi’s observations about Krugman’s nostalgia for the lost Golden Age of the 1950s and ’60s: It is Krugman’s idealized childhood that is the true destination of his allegedly progressive longings. To […]

By Executive Fiat, Labor Department Adds ‘Gender Identity’ to Protected Categories

Perhaps to be known as the Corporal Max Klinger Memorial Rule: US Department of Labor announces renewed commitment to fair treatment and equal opportunity for all of its employees New policy statements prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and pregnancy WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its full commitment to implementing equal […]

BREAKING: Libya Spokesman Says NATO Strike Killed 3 of Qaddafi’s Grandsons UPDATE: Attack Also Reportedly Kills Qaddafi’s Youngest Son, Saif al-Arab, 29

An urgent dispatch from Reuters but no details yet. UPDATE: Al-Jazeera confirms and adds detail: Saif al-Arab, the youngest son of the Libyan leader, has been killed in a NATO air strike, a Libyan government spokesman said. The spokesman said Muammar Gaddafi was unharmed but three of his grandsons were also killed in the attack […]

Three Cups of Scam

I’ve previous blogged about how Greg Mortenson’s best-selling book, Three Cups of Tea, was exposed as fraudulent, casting doubts on Mortenson’s idea of peace through education. Now it seems that some donors are wising up to the too-good-to-be-true claims of Mortenson’s imitators: Former Marine Capt. Rye Barcott heads up a grass-roots nonprofit to help slum […]

Facial Hair That Only Andrew Sullivan Could Love

by Smitty If your friends tell you “Dude, that’s cool!” it’s time to get new friends: Update: linked by King Shamus.

Herman Cain Wins 2012 Presidential Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire

Of course, that’s not the headline you’ll see in the biased liberal media reports about the Americans for Prosperity forum last night. No, no — they’re all about Mitt Romneycare and Tim Cap-and-Trade Pawlenty. But make no mistake about it: Herman Cain won. Steve Foley at Citizens for Cain passes along this item from a major New […]

Albert Haynesworth, Victim

He’s 6-foot-6, 335 pounds, a former first-round draft pick and two-time All-Pro. Yet the Washington Redskins’ defensive end is a victim of . . . err, discrimination: Washington Redskins player Albert Haynesworth has been indicted on one charge of sexual abuse after a Feb. 13 incident at the W Hotel, in which he allegedly fondled […]

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