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Monday Open Thread: The Tax Man Cometh

— by Wombat-socho Stacy and Smitty both have new jobs that are sucking up most of the time they used to spend on blogging. Unfortunately. Me, I work a weird schedule in the tax mines, so it leaves me free to contribute linkagery and occasional posts like this. Question for today: if you could eliminate […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.25.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS “No Evidence Of Third-Party Involvement” In Berezovski Death Suicide, or Kremlin assassination? Abortionist Gosnell Accused Of Medicating Women Based On Their Ability To Pay Also facing charges of killing babies born alive with scissors Few Winners In Cyprus Deal Nation will stay in eurozone, receive 10 billion-euro bailout – […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Time After Time

— compiled by Wombat-socho Welcome once again to the weekly obeisance to Rule 5 here at The Other McCain! For those of you new to the site, discretion is advised in following the links below; while many of them are discreet and tasteful, others are most definitely NSFW. Fishersville Mike leads off this week with […]

Mr. Nobel Peace Prize Works His Magic: Israel Now at War With Syria?

All it took was an Obama trip to the Mideast, and suddenly everything seems to be flying completely sideways: Reuters is reporting that Israel has fired upon and destroyed a machine gun position in the Golan Heights. It is unclear at this moment whether this is merely spillover from the Syrian civil war or whether […]

FMJRA 2.0: March Madness

— compiled by Wombat-socho Missing Word in RNC Report: ‘Blog’ Daily Pundit Pirates Cove The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative The Daley Gator Rick’s Rants S.C. Primary: Will Tea Party Rally Behind Curtis Bostic Against Mark Sanford? Colorado Right Lowering The Boom Nice Deb Extrano’s Alley Da Tech Guy In Defense Of BlogBash And CPAC […]

‘You Better Back It Up’: Security Guard Tasers Aggressive Woman on Video

What led to this dispute at an Atlanta mini-mall in January, I don’t know. This video went viral and already has more than 2 million views. By the time the security guard’s camera starts rolling, two obstreperous women are hurling the “n-word” and various obscene slurs at the guard, who repeatedly warns them to leave. Finally, after […]

How Franklin Foer Fired Timothy Noah

First, some idiot kid name Olga asks Nate Thayer to write for free. Then Matthew Yglesias buys himself a million-dollar D.C. townhouse. Now, an award-winning liberal journalist gets the ax: On Thursday, New Republic columnist Timothy Noah received an email from editor Frank Foer asking him to meet at 2:30 pm on Friday. During the meeting, […]

The 1% Progressive Bloggers Club and the Bourgeois Dialectic of Comrade Yglesias

Friend of the proletariat Matthew Yglesias (Photo: Matt Roth) The news that left-wing blogger employee of Slate magazine Matthew Yglesias has purchased a $1.2-million townhouse in D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood has produced much chortling. Yglesias, after all, mocked property rights as the “myth of ownership.” Andy at AOSHQ says: So, party at Matty’s this weekend? I mean, […]

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