The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Sunday: In The Heat Of The Night

— compiled by Wombat-socho Finally, back on schedule! Keep in mind that many of the links below are NSFW, so don’t open them where you shouldn’t. Appropriately, we begin with Three Beers Later’s entry for Offend A Feminist Week: Hot Women With Guns! Laughing Conservative follows with a rather animated Mila Kunis, and WyBlog also […]

FMJRA 2.0: All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight

— compiled by Wombat-socho Don’t know if it’s the sudden eruption of multiple scandals surrounding our least favorite Chicago politician and his inept lackeys, people finally recovering from tax season, or just more folks having time to blog and link; maybe it was the Peter Dinklage graphic in yesterday’s Live At Five. Whatever the reason, […]

#JayCarneyExcuses Don’t Make Me Give You The Full Jessup Again

by Smitty Is there an American who looks a bigger ass than Carney? None. None bigger ass. #JayCarneyExcuses The vast right wing global fracking voter warming ethanol suppression conspiracy terrified my dog into eating my homework — Smitty TheWackoBird (@smitty_one_each) May 10, 2013 #JayCarneyExcuses Sorry, I was too busy reading the bill. Wait, not even […]

As a ‘Christofascist Godbag,’ I Need Some Civility Lessons From Melissa McEwan

Let me begin this response to Melissa McEwan by citing Ann Coulter, not because she is a woman — certainly not one of those “liberal women constantly talking about their vaginas suddenly pretending to be offended by the word ‘slut’” — but because Coulter dared to tell the truth about Max Cleland’s Vietnam war injuries. […]

Has Somebody Told @Jack Dorsey That Twitter Was Invented by Ed Markey?

#InventedByEdMarkey YouTube (and we thank you: youtu.be/sFYqErvyLC8) — Bill Murphy (@billmurphy) May 10, 2013 “Breaking down those monopolies in the 1996 Telecommunications Act unleashed $1 trillion worth of private-sector capital that has created thousands of jobs — yes, you know the names, Google and eBay and Amazon and Hulu and YouTube and Facebook and Twitter […]

The Big Benghazi Lie: State Department Deleted Key Facts From Talking Points

Jonathan Karl of ABC News reports that an entire paragraph of the CIA’s original assessment of the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was deleted after political objections were raised by a State Department official. The deleted paragraph — which referenced prior CIA warnings about terrorist attacks in Libya — was one of numerous […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.10.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Feds Force Defense Distributed To Pull Plans For Plastic Gun From Website Defense Department argues posting 3D printer plans is equivalent to weapons export Lindsey Graham Challenges Chairman Of Joint Chiefs On Benghazi Testimony Demands General Dempsey return to Capitol GOP Leadership To Boycott Controversial ObamaCare Panel IPAB “death […]

Teaching Your Kids to Hate You

Donald Douglas calls attention to an interesting argument by Bruce Thornton about the “trickle-down” of leftism in education: We often focus on the ideological biases of the university, where the more lunatic examples of political correctness get the most attention. But in education as in economics, there is a trickle-down effect. The grandees at the […]

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