The Other McCain

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

Unexpectedly: Unemployment Increases!

Can we endure four more years of this? U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, was 7.8% for the month of November, up significantly from 7.0% for October. Gallup’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 8.3%, nearly a one-point increase over October’s rate. Ed Morrissey comments: The economy is shedding jobs at roughly the […]

Deadly Chaos in Egypt

How’s that “Arab Spring” working out for ya? Five people were killed and hundreds wounded in violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi that raged for several hours into early Thursday morning. Angry mobs battled each other with Molotov cocktails, rocks and sticks outside the presidential palace complex. Via Ed Morrissey […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.06.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS TurboTax Timmy Says Administration “Absolutely” Willing To Go Over Fiscal Cliff White House adamant that the top tax rate must be raised Syrian Loyalists Load Nerve Agent Into Bombs Military awaiting Assad’s order Software Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Guatemala Held for illegal entry; will be extradited to Belize […]

To the Reader Who Bought the Mitsubishi 73-Inch Home Cinema HDTV via Amazon

Thanks! That’s one big TV for $1,115 and by purchasing it via our Amazon Associates links, you not only get low prices and free Super Saver shipping, but you also earn us a small commission that helps put the ho-ho-ho into our holiday season. With our Top Holiday Deals there are great savings at Amazon every day […]

Fugitive Software Pioneer John McAfee Reportedly Arrested in Guatemala

He lost most of his fortune, moved to Belize and plunged into a decadent lifestyle of hallucinogenic drugs and hookers, and then took it on the lam after one of his neighbors was shot dead. Now the erstwhile multimillionaire playboy has been busted in Guatemala: John McAfee, the Silicon Valley millionaire wanted for questioning in a Belizean homicide, was […]

‘Born That Way’ — Not!

Hunter Walker of the New York Observer highlights the lesbian past of Chirlane McCray who, for the past 20 years, has been the wife of Bill de Blasio, a likely candidate for mayor of New York City. Such stories are a lot less rare than the “gay gene” theorists would have you believe, but because […]

‘Anger Issues,’ to Put It Mildly

Lucius Crawford is 60 years old. A summary of his criminal career: In 1976, he was released after serving three years in prison for stabbing a woman in Charleston, S.C. In 1977, Crawford was sentenced to 24 years in prison for stabbing five women, ages 14 to 28, over a five-day period in Charleston. In […]

None Dare Call It ‘Decadent’

“Television, naturally enough, is biased toward compelling visual imagery, and in almost all cases the charms of a human face take precedence over the capabilities of a human voice. . . . It is the teller, and not what is told, that matters here.” — Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (1994) “The 19th-century cult of success […]

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