The Other McCain

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

Liberals Love a Greedy Sexist Capitalist

If his name is Hugh Hefner: What other company does so much for its top guy? Consider this from the company’s regulatory filing, which has a hilariously detached explanation for why it pays the expenses of an old lecher. A passage reads, “Crystal Harris, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Karissa Shannon, Kristine Shannon and Kendra Wilkinson, the […]

Dream Date: Youth Prison

From the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The New York State Commission of Correction says top officials and staff were irresponsible when they authorized and failed to supervise a party at a youth prison where some violent offenders had sex with dates. The commission faults the Office of Children and Family Services […]

Democrats Have Their Economic Excuse Ready: Blame Rahm Emanuel!

Paul Krugman is the de facto leader of those neo-Keynesians who say the problem with Obamanomics is that the stimulus package wasn’t big enough. And he links to this interview with Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.) who points the finger at Rahm: The problem for Obama, he wasn’t as lucky as Roosevelt, because when Obama took […]

Who Is Todd Gaziano?

That’s the question raised by the Ben Smith column at Politico in which Abigail Thernstrom accuses her fellow Republican members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission of exploiting the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in pursuit of “their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.” Thernstrom herself is well-known as a […]

Angelo M. Codevilla, Populist

OK, he’s a professor emeritus at Boston University, but his new article at The American Spectator is a 12,000-word indictment of the nation’s ruling class so thorough that I can only snap my suspenders and say, “Harumph!”

It’s FDIC Failed-Bank Friday!

How’s that “recovery summer” workin’ out for ya? Regulators on Friday shut down three banks in Florida, two in South Carolina and one in Michigan, bringing to 96 the number of U.S. banks to succumb this year to the recession and mounting loan defaults. . . . With 96 closures nationwide so far this year, […]

Ezra Klein Admits: ‘It Won’t Work’

“Notice that adding new jobs at a rate of 200,000 a month would take us 150 months — or 12.5 years — to get back to normalcy. So far, only April has seen more than 200,000 in non-census jobs growth — and even then, just barely.” — Ezra Klein, July 16, 2010 Hmmm. Dow Jones […]

Media Matters: Arbiters of Legitimacy?

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has bulldogged the Ground Zero mosque story from Day One, helping organize and promote opposition to the Islamicization of Lower Manhattan. So how does the Left respond? Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on national television Media Matters is telling TV producers not to give airtime to the woman who is arguably […]

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