The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 12.10.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: L.A. County Sheriff’s Officials Arrested In FBI Sting Michelle Malkin: Obamacare’s Perilous Protection Plan For Debtors Twitchy: Obamacare’s Crushing Consequences – This Doctor’s Practice-Closing Newspaper Ad Says It All Sondrakistan: Can You Top This? RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: State Obamacare Exchanges Vulnerable To […]

Taxpayers Lose $10.5 Billion on UAW Bailout; Does @DavidCookTFP Care?

Before we talk about @DavidCookTFP — a liberal columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press — let’s talk about Detroit, the city driven into bankruptcy by Democrats and organized labor. If there is one sentence which should be indelibly etched in your mind about President Obama’s bailout of General Motors, it is this: “GM was […]

Were Vassar Students Who Perpetrated Hate Hoax Linked to Another Injustice?

In August, I mentioned Peter Yu, who was expelled from Vassar College in what K.C. Johnson called  “The Dubious Rape Trial at Vassar.” And last week, there was another Vassar story: “Hispanic Transgender Student Kicked Out After Faking College Hate Incident.” There may be a connection between these two incidents: Genesis Hernandez, a transgendered, minority student […]

Harry Reid’s Game

“Reid isn’t worried about winning votes, he’s all about making sure no Democrat has to make any decision that the American people might hold them accountable for.”

What, If Anything, Does the @MikeElk Meltdown Prove About the Left?

Smear the target. When they respond, accuse them of racism or cyberbullying @betsyscribeindc w/ the story http://t.co/cu4gIHPekT — Eli Lake (@EliLake) December 9, 2013 Do you really care about a personal feud between Mike Elk (a labor reporter for the progressive journal In These Times) and Eli Lake (a national security reporter for The Daily […]

To Answer Your Question, Seth …

“How Many American Men Are Gay?” At the New York Times? All of them. At Harvard University? All of them. So when I read in the New York Times, “Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a contributing opinion writer who recently received a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard,” I know where he’s coming from — a world in […]

Read @JosephCurl: Because Facts Matter

Joe Curl lives out in the horse country of Fauquier County, Virginia. He enjoys golf, and can recite lines from Caddyshack the way I can recite lines from Animal House or Blazing Saddles. Joe has been a newsman his whole life. When I met him in 1997, he was an assistant national editor at the […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 12.09.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Senate Democrats Poised To Force Through Obama Nominees Republicans bide their time Tech Giants Band Together Against NSA Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo lead the Reform Government Surveillance coalition Thai Parliament Dissolved PM calls snap elections amid continuing protests POLITICS Five Days Left Congress races against deadlines as […]

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