The Other McCain

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

SHOCKER: Doctors Say Lindsay Lohan Doesn’t Actually Have Mental Disorder

She’s not technically crazy, she’s just a part-time lesbian who sometimes makes bad decisions like driving drunk and bleaching her red hair blonde: [T]he doctors who have evaluated Lindsay Lohan at UCLA have concluded she does not suffer from the drug or psychiatric problems that were previously diagnosed. . . . We’re told Lindsay has […]

Curious Phrasing, Mr. Appel

“In my experience, liberal think tanks and intellectuals dominate most domestic issues while conservative think tanks and intellectuals dominate foreign policy. . . . Democrats have traditionally held an advantage on domestic issues while Republicans have traditionally held an advantage on foreign policy. The intelligentsia of both parties reflect this divide.” — Patrick Appel, The […]

Associated (Orwellian) Press

A memo from the Ministry of Truth: AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque Associated Press Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent sent the following note to the staff about covering the New York City mosque story: Aug. 19, 2010 Colleagues, Here is some guidance on covering […]

Complex Problems, Simple Solutions

Imagine the horror of finding myself favorably cited by David Frum, who notes my concern with lack of attention to elections by the conservative blogosphere, and says that conservatives aren’t neglecting politics so much as they’re neglecting policy: What is neglected is governance. How much do we discuss what went wrong with the US economy […]

Pamela Geller Bikini ‘Scandal’?

Remember my joke — and it was a joke, in case you didn’t realize it — that Marcela Hoeven looking good in a bikini was a “scandal”? The Washington Post evidently thinks the same thing of Pamela Geller: The most colorful — and perhaps most visible — activist at the moment is Pam Geller, a […]

Arizona Madness

There is a candidate in the Arizona 3rd District GOP congressional primary named Steve Moak who doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Phoenix, no matter what anyone may try to tell you.  Moak’s candidacy is utterly doomed, but it has provided some amusement: Click this article at the Phoenix New Times and read down to the comments, […]

How to Get Linked, Lesson One

Write a headline as good as this: Paris teens charged in bare-breasted robberies If you don’t get linked with a headline like that, you are obviously sending tips to the wrong blogger. Beyond the headline, it helps if there’s actually an interesting story: French police believe they’ve gotten to the bottom of a series of robberies in […]

Say Hello to Liberty.com!

A right-wing MoveOn.org? On Wednesday, September 1, 2010, a key organizer in the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party and “Don’t Go” movement pioneer Eric Odom will join a national coalition of conservative movement activists in launching Liberty.com, a right-of-center news and national activism website with the intention of eclipsing the left’s Moveon.org. “For years, Moveon.org […]

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