The Other McCain

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

Sheila Jackson-Lee: Boss From Hell

Everybody on Capitol Hill has stories to tell about members of Congress who are screaming tyrants toward their staff. John McCain is notorious in that regard. But by far the worst bosses on Capitol Hill are women members, and one might narrow down that list by saying “liberal Democratic congresswomen,” among whom a particuilarly vile specimen is Rep. […]

Who Is John Galt?

The makers of the new movie Atlas Shrugged: Part I have invited me to an exclusive screening today in Washington, D.C. Here’s the trailer: They’ve taken a huge gamble, producing this ambitious film under a tight deadline and on a tight budget. During the CPAC blogger bash at FreedomWorks, they previewed four scenes from the […]

‘Centrist’ Obama?

Obama’s decision to dump the Defense of Marriage Act exposes the bogusness of his mythical “move to the center”: It also is increasingly clear that Mr. Obama has learned nothing from the “shellacking” his party took in the midterm elections, despite all the talk to the contrary from his sycophants in the media about his […]

Note to Self: Never Link Xconomy.com

Megan McArdle at the (soon-to-be-Sully-free) Atlantic linked and excerpted an interview that Xconomy.com did with a venture capitalist, Ken Kinsella. The World’s Tallest Female Blogger admits that her excerpting — more than a third of a 2,100-word article — was way over the “fair use” line and, while she included a link to the article, she named […]

‘Floating Out There in the Journalistic Ether’

Jack Shafer of Slate attempts to make sense of New York Times columnist Frank Rich’s departure for New York magazine: Let me see if I’ve got this straight: Frank Rich is leaving a weekly column at the nation’s most important daily newspaper for a monthly column at the second best weekly in the country. If […]

Mob Rules: Wisconsin Protesters Swarm GOP Legislator, Scream ‘Shame! Shame!’

Via Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit; more at Michelle Malkin and Hot Air: If this is what “civility” is supposed to look like . . .

Clearing the Browser Tabs Tuesday

Borrowing Jimmie Bise’s term for “Stuff I Really Meant to Blog About Today, But Didn’t Get Around to Actually Blogging”: Charlie Sheen — I’d given Charlie a good going-over Monday, and didn’t feel like going over him again. Maggie’s Notebook has more. Sheen-blogging can be addictive, and there’s just so much there to work with. Charlie […]

Report: Obama Smashed the Tea Party Through a Plate-Glass Window

“What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live […]

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