The Other McCain

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

Save the Bats!

They’re not cute and cuddly like baby seals, but we don’t want to kill them, do we? Conservationists filed suit Wednesday to block the start of Maryland’s first industrial wind project, contending the turbines built atop the state’s highest mountain in Garrett County threaten to harm federally protected rare bats. Making good on a threat […]

Pensions, Bankruptcy . . . and Racism?

Instapundit links to a New York Times story about the failure of the pension plan for municipal workers in Pritchard, Alabama. One thing that intrigued me about the story is something New York Times reporters Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh barely brushed up against, the elephant in the room, race: The situation in Prichard […]

No Wonder Demi Lovato’s in Rehab

Yeah, Disney’s latest meltdown starlet is spending Christmas and New Year’s in the facility where she’s already been in rehab since early November. When she was first institutionalized — after quitting (or being kicked off) the Jonas Brothers’ national tour — there was a lot of mystery about the reasons. The story that has since emerged […]

Thank God: The 111th Congress Is Over

Worst. Congress. EVAH! The House on Wednesday evening passed a motion to adjourn the 111th Congress “Sine Die”, bringing to a close Democrats four-year reign in the lower chamber. . . . Democrats touted the busy lame duck as a fitting end to what they are touting as one of the most productive Congresses in […]

Bad News, America: Teen Births Plummet

Teen birth rate hits record low As the nation continued to struggle in the recession in 2009, the rate at which U.S. women are having babies continued to fall, pushing the teen birth rate to a record low, federal officials reported Tuesday. . . . The overall drop pushed the fertility rate to about 2.01, […]

The Year ‘Global Warming’ Died

 Even the New York Times is forced to admit that the alarmists are fighting a losing battle: The Obama administration, which came into office pledging to limit emissions in the United States, scaled back its ambitions after climate and energy legislation died in the Senate this year. Challengers have mounted a vigorous assault on the […]

And This Was Not Even Voted the Worst Keith Olbermann Rant of 2010

This was only good enough for second runner-up in the Media Research Center’s “Dumb and Dumber Award” category of its 23rd annual Notable Quotables competition: “[The Tea Party-backed Republicans are] a group of unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told, in exchange for money and power, and march this nation as far […]

Christmas Cheesecake

“In an effort to boost my traffic, I am writing about breasts today. Small breasts. But breasts nonetheless.” — NeoNeoCon, “On Small Breasts” Donald Douglas is once again bemoaning the blogger’s plight during Holiday Traffic Suckage Season, when it seems that nothing can get the SiteMeter excited. Lady Gaga getting groped? Man, that’s a genuinely desperate […]

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