The Other McCain

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

Good News! Work Force Still Shrinking

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air describes the November jobs report: The economy added 146,000 jobs, better than expected if still a status quo result, and the jobless rate declined to 7.7%. . . . However, the seasonally-adjusted labor force dropped by 350,000, and the civilian labor force participation rate also dropped two-tenths of a point […]

Prof. Lessig: What Are You Saying, Man?

by Smitty We Americans are not easily inspired. Forty years of reform have left us more cynical, not less — and not just about Congress but also about the very idea of “reform.” Eighty percent of Americans surveyed by Clarus believe that the reforms Congress has passed “have been designed more to help current members […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.07.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Egypt Braces For Protests As Morsi Calls For Talks Five dead, hundreds hurt in rioting Senator DeMint Resigns To Head Heritage Foundation “I’m leaving the Senate now, but I’m not leaving the fight.” Pearl Harbor Was In Flames, And Utah Pilot Was Alone In The Sky Colonel Emmett Davis, […]

$118.9 Million

In the final weeks of the 2012 election season, Mitt Romney’s campaign collected $85.9 million in contributions. During the same time period, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife donated $33 million to two Republican “super-PACs.” They lost. Maybe you noticed. Suggestions of more helpful uses for that money are hereby solicited. Sheldon Adelson never […]

Due To Budget Cuts, The Band Has Been Reduced To A Lone Guitar

by Smitty The proceeds were given as tribute to the Imperial Executive:

Unexpectedly, Crowder Finds That Random Dems Espouse Conservative Ideas

by Smitty We’ll have plenty of time to rap with these people in the bread line.

Gigantic 50-Year-Old Transsexual College Women’s Basketball Player Is Not Crazy

Sports news or the Rocky Horror Picture Show? It was the debut of Gabrielle Ludwig, and at 6 feet 8, 220 pounds, with tattoos on her arms and legs, she stands out in the Contra Costa College gym. At 50, the Fremont resident is about three decades older than her Santa Clara community college teammates […]

David Welch, Snake for Hire

In May 2010, during Michael Steele’s chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, research director Jeff Berkowitz resigned and was replaced by David Welch, a 30-something operative who had previously worked on John McCain’s presidential campaigns and for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Welch lasted about a year at the RNC gig and used his “former research director” […]

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