The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.05.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Kerry Visits Ukraine Bearing Roses, $1 Billion Energy Aid Meanwhile, Putin orders troops conducting training on Ukraine border to return to barracks Abortion Barbie Wins Primary, Continues March To Certain Doom Trails Abbott by 11 points, $19 million Mardi Gras 2014 In New Orleans: Cold & Rainy Unseasonable weather […]

The Media’s Ukraine Hocus-Pocus

How many times do you have to watch the same magic trick before you start getting wise to the fact that the rabbit was never in the hat to begin with? The media’s approach to any controversy or scandal involving President Obama begins with two basic premises: Everything Obama does is right and good; and […]

Perverts, Foreign and Domestic

Advisor on UK anti-porn web filters may be something of a subject matter expect. http://t.co/XyShno1N3y — Popehat (@Popehat) March 4, 2014 You have to wonder whether 62-year-old bachelor aristocrat Patrick Rock was chosen to be Downing Street’s child pornography expert, or whether he volunteered. Looks like probably the latter: One of David Cameron’s closest aides […]

Rule 5 Monday

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, maybe I should have been less certain that we had enough leftovers to make this week’s Rule 5 compendium as double-stuffed as last week’s. My bad. Still, we have what we have, and I must say what we have is pretty nice. We begin with Randy’s Roundtable and Olivia Garson, […]

Death by ‘Choice’: Contraceptive Risk Means ‘Safe Sex’ Can Be Deadly

Erika Langhart died after using ‘third generation’ birth control. It’s perfectly harmless — until it kills you: What friends of Durango [Colorado] native Erika Langhart seemed to love most about her was her humor. “She had great stories. Ridiculous things always seemed to happen to her,” said Jessica Knutzon, 24, a fellow American University alumni. […]

The Answer Is At Least As Old As Daniel

by Smitty One of the supreme ironies of my lifetime — at least, from my perspective — has been the dogged adherence even the most erudite of cosmopolitan Jews have shown toward the Democratic Party, even as the Party itself has grown increasingly hostile to Israel, increasingly removed from at least basic support for free […]

Hollywood Actress Urges Hollywood to Create More Jobs for Actresses

If any misogynist is looking for evidence of female mental inferiority, the Huffington Post’s “Women” category is a treasure trove, with dumb writers and dumber topics (e.g., “Why I Hate Wearing Bras” and “I Was On Reality TV — Here’s What It’s Like To Fake ‘Real Life‘”), suggesting that there are two basic ideas behind […]

British Group Claimed ‘Research’ Showed ‘No Identifiable Damage’ of Child Sex

Last week, we reported on the controversy about British Labour Party officials’ ties to a group that lobbied on behalf of pedophiles in the 1970s (“The UK Left’s Pro-Pedophile Past“). The controversy has continued, as the dishonest excuses of officials are exposed: Evidence has emerged that the views of the Paedophile Information Exchange influenced policy-making […]

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