The Other McCain

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

Economics, Translated to Plain English

The eminent James Pethokoukis gives you the technocratic jargon: US job growth in April beat economist expectations as nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000, and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.5%. But the report contained worrisome signs that President Obama’s health care reform law is hurting full-time, high-wage employment. While the American economy added 293,000 […]

Dear English Teachers: You’re Welcome

What’s wrong with this headline? Jason Collins’ Other Hidden Secret Everybody was beating up on Howard Kurtz for the factual error of his story, but the headline was also ungrammatical. The possessive form of a proper name ending in “s” — e.g., Jones — requires the apostrophe-S: The pistol was found in Jones’s car. And, […]

The Left Hates Howard Kurtz, Which Doesn’t Mean We Should Love Him, But …

@tobyharnden @howardkurtz I agree.This defenestration feels like it’s about something else.#mobbing — Instapundit.com (@instapundit) May 3, 2013 “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.” — Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance,” 1965 The Internet never forgets, and I’m sure someone (probably Ed Driscoll) will unearth the […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.03.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS NRA Gears Up For Annual Convention In Houston 80,000 expected to attend largest, most-watched meeting ever Gunman Killed In Houston Airport Shootout Unclear whether shooter committed suicide or was shot Rhode Island Legalizes Gay Marriage Governor Chafee signs bill into law; takes effect August 1 POLITICS The Fix Was […]

No Wonder They Couldn’t Find Her

For 11 years, police in Pennsylvania searched for a woman who had disappeared. It’s easy now to understand why they could find her. She had hitchhiked to Florida, and the photo on the “missing” posters didn’t look anything like her after 11 years of hard living: People thought Brenda Heist had been murdered. Her ex-husband […]

The Burqa as Crime Accessory: Woman Indicted for Kidnap, Rape of Girl

This is one of the most strange and horrible crimes imaginable: A 19-year-old woman has been indicted for the January kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl. Prosecutors say Christina Regusters wore an Islamic veil and pretended to be the mother of Nailla Robinson when she checked the kindergartner out of school in January. The girl […]

The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended

The university campus in Laramie was gripped by fear last week: “I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good […]

Liberal Media Bias and Self-Selection

C’mon, @aceofspadeshq: “Something Faranze-Gupta or whatever”?@thegarance is no Max Blumenwhatever! minx.cc/?post=339613 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 1, 2013 Some years ago — when our daughter, now 23, was in kindergarten, to be specific — I gave up on the public school system. It’s doomed beyond all hope of redemption, and conservatives who think otherwise are […]

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