The Other McCain

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

Thoughts on Teamwork

Have you ever hit Da Tech Guy’s tip jar? I have and you should. Have you ever contributed to the Protein Wisdom monthly fund drive? I have and you should. And how about hitting Jimmie Bise’s tip jar? Are you some kind of Commie bolshevik pinko sympathizer, or are you gonna do something to help […]

Hugo Chavez, Looter

Weird that the New York Times would publish this: The legacy of his 14-year “socialist revolution” is apparent across Venezuela: the decay, dysfunction and blight that afflict the economy and every state institution. The endless debate about whether Mr. Chávez was a dictator or democrat — he was in fact a hybrid, an elected autocrat […]

Atlantic Editor to Freelancer: ‘We Unfortunately Can’t Pay You for It …’

Olga Khazan, global editor of The Atlantic, was a junior in high school on April 3, 2003. You may not recognize the significance of that date, even if you’re a longtime Atlantic reader. Evidently Ms. Khazan didn’t either, nor did she recognize the name Nate Thayer when she saw his byline on a story at […]

The Rev. @ThorHalvorssen’s Universal Holiness Temple Choir of ‘Human Rights’

Thor Halvorssen is, so far as I can tell, not one of the bad guys, although I don’t remember ever hearing of him until Monday night, when I was on the phone with a MalaysiaGate source who said, “It’s this Thor Halvorssen guy who’s really pushing it.” OK, you got my attention there, Mr. Source. What […]

‘MalaysiaGate’ Day Four: Conspicuous Silence and Convenient Memory Lapses

June 2008: Jerome Armstrong posted to Photostream this photo of him and Josh Treviño meeting with Zaid Ibrahim in Malaysia (click image to enlarge) Questions about the “MalaysiaGate” controversy — in which American bloggers were paid as part of a foreign government’s public-relations campaign — continued to be asked Monday, the fourth day since Rosie Gray of […]

However, She Is Not a Witch

Headline, New York Daily News: Former Miss Delaware Teen USA lost tiara over porn role that paid just $1,500: producers

‘MalaysiaGate’ Update: Still More Questions Than Answers (So Far)

Since I raised questions about progressive blogger/consultant Jerome Armstrong’s role in MalaysiaGate, a few sources have started to supply helpful information and background. Frankly, I was shocked when former Raw Story editor Ron Brynaert — certainly no ally of the Right, nor previously a friend to me — started Tweeting to me his own research into […]

How Much Cash Did Jerome Armstrong Collect in the ‘MalaysiaGate’ Operation?

Cashing in and Crashing the Gate: Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong sign their book, April 2006 “At 1:11 AM, Monday March 21st, Bush signed into law an order that vacates the state of Florida from having jurisdiction over the case involving Terri Schiavo. Of course, Mercury is retrograde, so at first indication, it’s unlikely that […]

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