The Other McCain

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To the Reader Who Bought … Wait, What the Heck Is That $224 Gizmo, Anyway?

I keep calling attention to people who shop our Amazon Associates links to buy stuff I didn’t even know Amazon sold until I saw the sales report informing that I’d earned a 4% commission on it. But a couple of days ago, one of our readers purchased something that I don’t even know what it […]

Your Ugly Ancestors

Now we know where you get it, huh? This photo is from a collection called “Victorian Husbands and Wives” and, in linking the collection at AOSHQ, Maetenloch offered the defense that “makeup and smiles apparently hadn’t been invented yet.” AOSHQ commenters unanimously agreed: I wouldn’t hit that for $100 in 1872 money, which would be like eleventy kajillion bucks […]

Weird News: Nephew of Joe Lieberman Accused of Massive Online Art Fraud

Chad Love-Lieberman, 34, reputed nephew of Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, has been accused of copyright infringement and fraud. Love-Lieberman’s alleged fraud was exposed after an online publication Campus Socialite picked up a story from the South Florida Chronicle about Love-Lieberman’s self-proclaimed success as a “multimedia pop artist.” Campus Socialite further asserted that Love-Lieberman had taken out a […]

The Infinite Viciousness of the Online Left

Donald Douglas at American Power today reprints the e-mail that Karl Salnonen sent to a number of college officials as part of Salonen’s smear-campaign effort to get Professor Douglas fired. This is the latest permutation of a blogwar dating back months, if not years, of which I first became aware when “Advice Goddess” Amy Alkon […]

Qaddafi Cornered as Rebels Attack Tripoli

More than five months after the launch of Operation Odyssey Dawn — which was supposed to have toppled Moammar Qaddafi’s regime in a matter of days — Libyan rebels say they’re finally on the verge of victory: Euphoric Libyan rebels have pushed to the western outskirts of Tripoli without meeting any resistance after they overran […]

‘Fight’ Whom, Congressman?

Excuse my visceral reaction to this story: Cummings: Black community wants Obama to ‘fight harder’ Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Sunday that African-Americans want President Obama to “fight harder” to create jobs in the struggling U.S. economy. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Cummings said the black community is very protective of Obama and […]

Who Is Richard Kramer? Director of ‘Mental Health Professionals’ Group Admits His Own Attraction to Minors

Controversy has erupted over a Baltimore conference this week organized by B4UAct.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization described by the Daily Caller as “a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists.” The Aug. 17 conference was aimed at de-stigmatizing pedophila and especially at removing pedophilia from the list of mental disorders in the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. There […]

Herman Cain: ‘Still in It to Win It’

Herman Cain speaks Aug. 13 at the Ames Straw Poll Herman Cain is “still in it to win it,” his Republican presidential campaign told supporters in a fundraising e-mail highlighting the Atlanta businessman’s speech last week at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames. Describing Cain as “a real leader” with “proven results,” the e-mail sent Saturday (see […]

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