The Other McCain

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LIVE AT FIVE – 03.16.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Norks Plan To Launch Satellite In April Launch will violate recent agreement Accused Panjwai Massacre Sergeant Lawyers Up Sniper unhappy about deployment to A-stan Tornado Destroys 100 Homes In Dexter, Michigan Fortunately, no deaths POLITICS Ted Stevens Prosecutors Hid Evidence Before Trial The fix was evidently in Live Streaming […]

From Twitchy: Best. Sex. Scandal. Evah!

Folks, I am seriously enjoying Twitchy, the new Twitter-based news site that Michelle Malkin has created. But they need to work on their headlines, because this one is waaaay too understated: PM Belden Namah accused in casino sex scandal, gambling Back in the day, I’d have demanded a re-write from the copy desk, because this […]

Pornographic Politics: Did the Daily Caller ‘Pull a Media Matters’ on Rick Santorum? UPDATE: Romney and Gingrich Both Made January Pledge to Fight Porn

Today I noticed a thread at Memeorandum aggregating commentary on an article by Daily Caller associate editor Steven Nelson: ‘Vigorous’ Santorum crackdown may catch Internet porn viewers with pants down I sort of shrugged that off, and then I saw this Tweet by Jedediah Bila: Didn’t tweet about this today, but if it’s accurate, I […]

Gearing Up To Tell SCOTUS, BHO What We Think Of ObamaCare

by Smitty The Alexandria Tea Party has a summary, which I will tart up with my mighty HTML-fu: Rally Details Tea Party Patriots (TPP) Upper Senate Park (NEW LOCATION) Saturday March 24th noon – 2 p.m.; registration and bus info at http://www.roadtorepeal.com/ Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Upper Senate Park Tuesday March 27th 1 p.m.; joined […]

DON’T MISS IT: Steven Crowder Will Speak at BlogCon 2012 in Charlotte, N.C.

That’s right: My close personal friend Steven Crowder — follow him on Twitter — has been honored with an invitation to speak at BlogCon 2012, April 20-21, at the fabulous Hilton Center City in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here is Steven’s latest video, produced in association with the National Center for Public Policy Research: Trust me, […]

Asking the Important Questions: Why Does Gillian Anderson Want Me to Blog About Her Teenage Lesbian Affairs?

Yes, it’s been a week since my last Instalanche and, while I sincerely doubt that Professor Glenn Reynolds would want to encourage such absolutely shameless link-baiting, I’m otherwise mystified as to why any attractive celebrity would make this kind of confession: Gillian Anderson, the actress best known for playing agent Dana Scully on ”The X-Files,” has admitted […]

Nostalgia Is Not a Business Strategy

The introduction: John R. MacArthur is publisher of Harper’s Magazine and a monthly contributor to The Providence Journal, among other publications. This essay is one of this year’s Delacorte Lectures at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Oh, boy. You know this one’s gonna be a hoot: Long before I took myself off Facebook, I doubted […]

I’VE BEEN BLINDED BY HATE!

So says Bill Quick at Daily Pundit, who says I’m “spouting arrant hooey” in observing that Newt Gingrich’s campaign is doomed. Quick says my “visceral hatred of Gingrich” accounts for my hooey. Even if accurate, this accusation completely misses the relevant point that Newt’s campaign faces financial ruin after Tuesday’s double defeats in Mississippi and Alabama. […]

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