The Other McCain

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

Donald Trump, Neo-Confederate?

That’s what Alyssa Rosenberg of Think Progress appears to be suggesting with her report that Donald Trump donated “$25,000 for the post-Katrina restoration of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis’s retirement estate on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.” “Pin the Confederate Tail on the Republican” seems to be a popular progressive game this week, with Jamelle Bouie of The American Prospect […]

Massacre in Mexico

President Obama has plenty of time to worry about Libya, while murderous anarchy is just across the southern border: Security forces have unearthed six more bodies in a northeastern Mexican border state where a drug gang is believed to be kidnapping passengers from buses and hiding their victims in secret graves, authorities said Tuesday. A […]

WATERLOO FOR BIRTHERS: Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificate

UPDATE 12:10 p.m.: VIDEO: Obama Sermonizes About This Silly Distraction From His Incompetence * * * * * PREVIOUSLY (9:15 a.m. ET): The White House this morning released Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate, which is now available online as a PDF. UPDATE: CNN reports: The White House released President Obama’s original birth certificate Wednesday. The […]

McDonald’s Beating Suspect

We have a mug shot and a name: Baltimore County police have named the 18-year-old charged with beating a transgender woman at Rosedale McDonald’s, amid demands from some community members that the incident be investigated as a hate crime. Teonna Monae Brown of the 2000 block of Kelbourne Road in Rosedale was charged in the […]

A Little Schadenfreude From Ed Driscoll

by Smitty Because Mrs. The Other Smitty loves it when I abuse her tongue. Ed Driscoll rolls out the hot shadow laughter for BHO-One Quixote*: Incidentally, it’s got to be quite a comedown from having a rare combination of enough chutzpah and imaginary messianic power to say with a straight face, “This was the moment […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.27.11

TOP NEWS Obama Urges End To Oil Company Tax Credits Because nothing the administration has done could be responsible, right? Right? Predictable Pushback At Town Halls Worried seniors and others question Congressmen about Ryan’s plans for Medicare and Medicaid Sony: Credit Card Data At Risk In PSN Hack Hackers may have stolen credit card data […]

Former Air America Host Arrested After Heckling Rep. Allen West at Town Hall

The Palm Beach Post has identified former Air America radio host Nicole Sandler as the woman who was arrested and led out of a town hall meeting in handcuffs after she heckled Rep. Allen West and got into a confrontation with the Republican congressman’s wife. Javier Manjarres at The Shark Tank has video of repeated […]

Give Jimmie Bise Some Money

No sense beating around the bush here: Jimmie Bise Jr. is having an online fund-raiser to support his excellent podcast The Delivery. Go hit his tip jar — I did.

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