The Other McCain

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

Internet Douchebag Patrol

Look, it’s not as if there were a shortage of actual news for me to blog about today. For example, my friend Shaun McCutcheon won a landmark Supreme Court decision today, and there’s all kinds of commentary about McCutcheon v. FEC. Here is a guy from Alabama who has bought me beers whose name is […]

‘She Keeps Score’

“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining,” Colonel Fletcher says in The Outlaw Josey Wales. For the benefit of those readers not fluent in Redneck, permit me to translate: “Don’t screw me over and pretend like you’re not screwing me over.” Washington, D.C., is a town crawling with thousands of selfish, cowardly, […]

In The Mailbox: 04.02.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Trigger Warning – Is That You, Liz Warren? Michelle Malkin: Dear Mr. Colbert – Me So Stupid. You So Funny! Twitchy: Thousands Of Gun Rights Supporters Rally In Albany Against SAFE Act RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES American Power: The Big Picture On Obamacare’s Politics American […]

‘Unintentionally Heteronormative’!

Readers will please pardon my long silence this evening, but I was doing deep research on (yet another) long post about feminism, the completion of which will have to wait because . . . this: Emily Nagoski is a Ph.D. “college health educator in Massachusetts.” Both an atheist and a progressive, Nagoski has “worked for […]

Voodoo and Welfare: $2 Million Methamphetamine Bust in Florida

Florida: The Crazy State!™ LAKELAND — Nearly $2 million worth of methamphetamine was seized and 13 people arrested in what Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is calling one of the biggest meth busts they’ve had in recent years. In a press conference Wednesday, Judd laid out the details of the bust, known as Operation Hoodoo Voodoo, […]

Yes, ObamaCare Kills Jobs

File this under “Not Exactly News.” Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of basic economics understood that the complex and burdensome system of mandates in ObamaCare would impede job creation. But nothing is true until the “experts” say so, I guess: The Republicans just got a big gift from the Congressional Budget Office: It’s going to […]

Sir Dana @Milbank, White Knight

Being a liberal means you have license to speak for the oppressed, as the enlightened and beneficent custodian of their interests. White male Dana Milbank goes “mansplaining” a Women’s History Month Event because ladies don’t understand this stuff: The conservative minds of the Heritage Foundation have found a way for Republicans to shrink the gender […]

Why Damon Linker Is Wrong To Say That Christianity Demands Pacifism

by Smitty Now, as a retired veteran, I’ll come under accusation of rationalizing my actions. Fair enough. But there is a simple explanation for why, according to Linker’s subtitle, “In the teachings of Christ, there is no endorsement of a just war”: Christianity is about the individual; war is about nations. Thus, what we have […]

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