The Other McCain

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

Heckuva Job, Susan Rice!

She went all over TV and repeated the administration’s lies about Libya, and how dare you criticize her! Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham both said today that they want to have Watergate-style hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and said that if you nominate […]

Awesome: Hamas Leader Destroyed by Twitter Message, Israeli Air Strike

But mainly, yeah, it was the air strike: Hamas has said that Israeli air strike in Gaza which killed Ahmed Jabari, the head of its military wing, “has opened the gates of hell” . . . Jabari, who is the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years […]

Is Krauthammer Right?

The Great Brain says the Obama administration used David Petraeus’s sex scandal to compel him “to give the administration line” about Benghazi in the CIA director’s Sept. 12 testimony: This is a very serious accusation, and one I am certainly not prepared to endorse until we have some clear evidence or testimony to support it. […]

Bad Memories of Bayshore Boulevard

(Left to right) Natalie Khawam, Gen. David Petraeus, Dr. Scott Kelley, Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus at a party in Tampa. It was August and a hurricane was hovering off the Florida coast that Monday afternoon in Tampa when I set out to find Jim Antle. The senior editor of The American Spectator had my […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.14.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS President Obama Feeling The Heat Collateral damage spreads from l’affaire Petraeus as angry investigators want answers Paula Broadwell goes to ground in DC Will Obama And The GOP Cut A Budget Deal? Three fiscal cliff scenarios Kremlin Says Obama, Putin Ready To Advance Relations Forward! POLITICS SecDef Sacks Another […]

Apropos Nothing

by Smitty From a random exchange with a guy Down Undah: Aussie, eh? I was through Melbourne in 1998, I guess it was, on the way home from the Persian Gulf. A young girl had committed an act of Hooverism on the President, so we had to shoot Tomahawk missiles into Afghanistan. Subsequently, the world […]

If You Were Saying to Yourself, ‘This Petraeus Scandal Isn’t Crazy Enough …’

You’re going to love this news: Jill Kelley — whose report of threatening e-mails led to revelations of Gen. David Petraeus’s affair with Paula Broadwell — has a “psychologically unstable” twin sister. And when the sister needed a reference in her child custody case, Petraeus provided it: The four-star general’s letter to the court — written […]

Capitalization and Heteronormativity?

There’s probably no connection. On the other hand, maybe my insistence on proper spelling, punctuation and grammar — even in such informal contexts as Twitter and text-messaging — is evidence of a traditionalist predisposition. And then there is the transgressive stance: met anderson cooper and his boyfriend ben at the madonna concert – they r […]

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