The Other McCain

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

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. […]

Obama in 1990: America ‘Mean-Spirited’

While a student at Harvard Law School in 1990, Barack Obama was interviewed by the Associated Press in an article the Illinois Daily Herald headlined, “Harvard student tackles racism at core“: America suffered when the movements of the 1960s dissipated, he said. Those movements succeeded in raising doubts about harmful traditions of sexism and racism, […]

Andrew Sullivan Should Be Deported, Not Invited to White House State Dinners

Let me set this up by telling you a story: My 13-year-old son Jefferson accompanied me to South Carolina in January. After the debate in Myrtle Beach was over and I’d hit my deadline for the American Spectator (“Carolina Spin Wars“), friends wanted me to join them at the hotel bar, and I told Jefferson to […]

Rick Santorum for President Because …

. . . he really brings out the crazy-talk at MSNBC: Lawrence O’Donnell: “Is anything surprising to you in this result so far?” Mark Thompson: “No, not at all. When Rick Santorum first announced he was running for President, in his announcement speech, he was criticizing President Obama for saying America wasn’t as great as […]

Shapiro Is Far Too Kind To #OccupyResoluteDesk

by Smitty Ben Shapiro at Breitbart.com grinds on with The Vetting, this time looking at the inversions of #OccupyResoluteDesk during his time as a Constitutional lecturer. Looking at his final exam question, he concludes, formatting mine: Obama’s an extreme legal leftist. He thinks that banning infertility treatment for unwed couples is akin to sterilizing them. […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.15.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Syrian Loyalists Retake Idlib Year of protests and rebellion marked by ongoing slaughter Obama, Cameron Discuss Tapping Oil Reserves President seeking Euros’ approval to tap SPR as gas prices cripple re-election bid Terp Goes Jihadi, Tries To Run Over Marines During Panetta Arrival Stole truck and ignited fuel container; […]

A Santorum Miracle? ‘So Be It,’ Says Mitt

“Romney campaign says losing nomination would take ‘act of God’” — MSNBC, March 7 “Senator Santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign . . . He’s far behind in the delegate count, far behind in the popular vote count. If you look at the math, it’s a very difficult road for him.” — […]

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