The Other McCain

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

The Blog Genie Is Out of the Bottle

The guys who run the Memeorandum political news blog aggregator have another aggregator called Mediagazer, which is the source for this comment by Matt Schuler: At the heart of the New York Times article is the suggestion that Facebook and Twitter are monopolizing the time that used to be dedicated to writing. When I wrote […]

Mitch Daniels Boomlet Ends

He just threw Scott Walker under the bus: Democrats went into a behind-closed-doors meeting Monday, refusing to return to the floor. Today, sources told The Indianapolis Star that Democrat lawmakers have left the state. Daniels, a Republican, supported their right to deny Republicans a quorum to do business and the rights of labor unions to […]

Cashing In

OK, so you get hired to do a job and, when the job’s over, you try to hustle a buck by stabbing your former employer in the back. Explain to me why anyone should ever trust you. Or better yet, explain to me why anyone should ever do anything except spit on the ground when […]

URGENT BREAKING NEWS!

Guess who’s pregnant? Alyssa Milano is going to be a mom! The actress, 38, and her husband Dave Bugliari, 32, are expecting their first child, Milano’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. “They’re just over the moon,” says a friend of the “Who’s The Boss” and “Charmed” alum, who’s due in early fall. “They are so […]

Michael Moore: Own a Gun? Racist!

“There’s a reason why we want to own these guns. . . . The vast majority of these guns are owned by people who live in safe parts of town, or mostly in suburbs and rural areas, places where there are very few murders. . . . Why do you have a gun? What are […]

‘Gutfeld Claims He Was Offered His Fox Show Because of His Writing on HuffPost’

Jehuda the Rhetorican called my attention to that claim made, in a letter to the president of the Newspaper Guild, by the senior vice president of public relations for Huffington Post, Mario Ruiz: We couldn’t agree more with your goal of ensuring journalists are paid for their work. It’s why HuffPost has 143 editors, writers, […]

‘Wrist Slaps for Everyone’

That’s Allahpundit’s prognosis for the outcome of the “investigation” of University of Wisconsin doctors writing bogus excuses for protesters in Madison: This involves a few individuals out of the nearly 1,300 physicians at UW Health. These UW Health physicians were acting on their own and without the knowledge or approval of UW Health. These charges […]

Moammar’s Very, Very Bad Day

I’m suffering with a head cold today, but it could be worse. At least I’m not Moammar Qaddafi: Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi should do so ‘to rid Libya of him.’ One thing that always annoyed me about this […]

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