The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 01.17.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Hope Dims As Search Continues Around Wrecked Cruise Ship At least eleven dead, twenty-nine still missing as the search continues Wikipedia Contributors Unhappy Over Site Blackout Online encyclopedia goes black for 24 hours in protest of SOPA Occupods Suspected In Smoke Bombing Of White House Four arrested in anticlimactic […]

Who the Hell Does Newt Think He Is?

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Monday night in the spin room after the Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach, I had the opportunity to score a brief interview with Rick Santorum’s campaign manager Mike Biundo, which included this exchange: RSM: A lot of people in the media are trying to play this up as Mitt versus Newt. […]

Greetings from Charleston!

CHARLESTON, S.C. Thirteen-year-old Jefferson and I were rolling leisurely south from Myrtle Beach on U.S. 17 — past pines and palmettos and live oaks draped in Spanish moss — when a black SUV passed us and I did a double take. I’d gotten just a quick glimpse at the driver as he passed, but my […]

Amanda Marcotte Has a Conniption Over the Rights of … Shemale Scouts?

You can’t make up stuff as weird as this. In Colorado, a 7-year-old boy named Bobby who thinks he’s a girl wanted to joined the Girl Scouts and was initially rejected. But then the Girl Scout council changed its mind and declared, “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her […]

Are You Ready for Ameritopia?

Mark Levin, author of Liberty and Tyranny, is back with a new book, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, and it’s sure to be one another bestseller. What Levin offers is a philosophical contrast between starkly different visions of government: The utopian view of “heaven on earth” schemes and the vision of ordered liberty that inspired […]

Is Fox News the Problem?

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. After the debate last night, I talked to several people about the situation that we find ourselves in: Four days away from the crucial South Carolina primary and still we have three “not Romney” candidates — Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry — dividing up the conservative vote. Another 10 to 15 percent of […]

What’s In Mitt’s Wallet?

by Smitty Perry cut right to income taxes at his first opportunity during the debate last night. Apparently, Mitt’s campaign has never heard of the Streisand Effect, where topics that really are of no interest (her house, his cash) become endlessly fascinating because people are so adamant about evading them. Why was the otherwise firm […]

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN 01.17.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Wikipedia Joins Web Blackout SOPA Protest Reddit, Boing Boing, others shutting down Wednesday in protest of “piracy” bill Fuel Tanker Arrives At Iced-In Nome Russian tanker makes port, starts oil pumping Syrian Official Defects, Says Regime Will Fight At All Costs Consensus is that most of the 5000 dead […]

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