The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.20.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Senate Committee Moves Toward Vote On Immigration Judiciary Committee still wrestling with contentious high-tech worker visas, same-sex marriage issues AP President Blasts DOJ Subpoenas Says DOJ actions are unconstitutional, hurt press Burma’s Thein Sein: Military Will Always Have Special Place In Government Dismisses allegations that military involved in anti-Muslim […]

Experience Matters: Old Man Schieffer Puts Young Punk Pfeiffer in His Place

“It looks like they’ve lost Bob Schieffer,” says John Hoge, which might be a slight exaggeration. Schieffer is a liberal, but he’s also a veteran Washington journalist who has seen enough scandals to know what a scandal looks like, and he was having none of the Jedi mind trick — “These are not the scandals […]

@SpeakerBoehner, Sir, Please Don’t Bore Me With Mere Talk Of Jail

by Smitty Speaker Boehner on the IRS scandal: Sure, there are malefactors who should be jailed. But the larger issue, sir, it the system itself. The IRS has now become Checkov’s Gun. If all that’s done is a appoint a special prosecutor, locate one or two more flagrant folks, and jail them, a major point […]

Shorter Dan Pfeiffer: ‘Your Partisan Questions Are So Largely Irrelevant and Offensive, I’m Not Going to Answer Them’

When the White House sent Obama’s senior adviser out to do five Sunday shows, his orders were obviously to claim that (a) only Republicans care whether the administration is lying about Benghazi, and (b) the answer to any question about Benghazi is “largely irrelevant”: Wallace repeatedly asked Pfeiffer where the president was and what he […]

‘Diversity Is Our Strength’ — And Also Leads to Hate-Crime Murder in New York

Dan Riehl points out that “three Hispanic males” were implicated in the murder of a gay black man in Greenwich Village, a potentially relevant fact that the New York Times couldn’t be bothered to mention in maundering on about the historic vicinity of the crime: Mark Carson did not hide that he was gay, and […]

FMJRA 2.0: All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down

— compiled by Wombat-socho Rule 5 Sunday: In The Heat Of The Night The Daley Gator Pirates Cove Blackmailers Don’t Shoot Animal Magnetism Rick’s Rants Ninety Miles From Tyranny The Fate of Basseley Nakoula First Street Journal Rhetorican The Camp of the Saints Hump Day Report Winds Of Jihad Rick’s Rants #Gosnell Convicted: Quick Reactions […]

Should IRS Standards for 501(c) Groups Require Proof of ‘Social Welfare’ Purpose?

That’s what “many Democrats” seem to be saying: “Partisanship or the perception of politics has no place in the IRS,” acting commissioner Steven Miller said in a brief opening statement to the Ways and Means Committee . . . And many Democrats turned to what they saw as the bigger issue: A tax code that […]

Benghazi and Other ‘Concocted’ Scandals

U.S. consulate, Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012 “Fraud flows from the top down, not the mid-level up. Mid-level officials in the White House and the State Department do not call the shots — they carry out orders.” — Andrew McCarthy Well, that’s just “common sense,” but what does common sense count for nowadays? In an […]

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