The Other McCain

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

Was the CIA Involved in Egypt’s Coup?

Anyone who knows the Central Intelligence Agency’s history in orchestrating the overthrow of governments must be wondering whether the agency played a role in the collapse of the Morsi regime. My hunch? Certainly they did, and we should be glad for it. Morsi’s government was a dangerous proto-fascist Islamic thugocracy. Think about this: President Obama, […]

Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship

It tells us a lot about the Obama administration’s foreign policy “success” that, after his encouragement of pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, the Egyptians actually rioted to demand that the military take over and relieve them of the “democratic” government they had elected. Ben Shapiro reports at Breitbart.com: On Wednesday, Gen. Abdel Fatah Said […]

By God, @SarahPalinUSA Is Right!

Last week, a Breitbart News article highlighted Sarah Palin’s criticism of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and on Sunday, she wrote a Facebook post excoriating this “bipartisan” sellout: Great job, GOP establishment. You’ve just abandoned the Reagan Democrats with this amnesty bill, and we needed them to “enlarge that tent” of which you so […]

LIVE AT FIVETEN: 07.03.13

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This Could Explain a Lot of Things

Dr. Samuel T. Wilkinson, a physician in residence at the Yale University department of Psychiatry, writes in the Wall Street Journal: “There is a significant and consistent relationship between marijuana use and the development of schizophrenia and related disorders.” You can read the whole thing — that is, you could read the whole thing, if […]

Rick-Rolled by HuffPost

You might think that a professional journalist would be completely immune to cheap marketing tactics, but occasionally even I fall for it. Backstory: Last year some evil troll decided to sign me up for every single news feed at the Huffington Post. As a result, I probably get 30 or 40 different e-mail pitches a […]

Why Do So Many #FreeKate Fanatics Remind Me of a Jethro Tull Song?

> @rachiez3 < The spiraling vortex of #FreeKate craziness https://t.co/4kae89Si8C | @Jeanette_Runyon @TomSeeman_VA — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 2, 2013 You probably thought the title reference was to “Aqualung” (“watching as the frilly panties run“) but it was actually the opening line of “Locomotive Breath” that I had in mind: “In the shuffling madness […]

Best GOP Ad Since Ladd Ehlinger, Jr. Departed The Scene

by Smitty This is just cool: Mitch McConnell for Senate So what Dr. Bunsen Honeydew’s brother got mugged by a buggerjournalist Via Rare

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