The Other McCain

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

Caught! CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Uses Liberal Blog TPM for Show-Prep

America’s Least Popular Cable-News Personality™ graduated from Harvard, but Soledad O’Brien is so ill-informed that, when she got flustered during an interview with Republican spokeswoman Barbara Comstock, she resorted to reading a Talking Points Memo blog post to find some decent . . . well, talking points. Ali Akbar caught this while watching CNN, and if you look […]

Is ‘Pansexual’ a Synonym for ‘Slut’?

“Any port in a storm”? “Love the one you’re with”? There are some people whose only requirement is friction, and I suppose it would be accurate to describe them as “pansexual,” although another suitable synonym would be “Texas Democrat“: Democrat Mary Gonzalez was the first lesbian to openly serve in the Texas House of Representatives, […]

Iowa Flashback: August 2011

Intersection in a cornfield near Roland, Iowa Paul Ryan is campaigning — and getting heckled — today in Iowa and I don’t know how many readers realize that today is the one-year anniversary of the Iowa GOP Straw Poll at Ames, which I covered under the headline, “Fear and Loathing at the Hilton Coliseum.” In case you’ve […]

Reasons Not to Have Sex

You’re young. You’re sexy. You meet somebody else young and sexy. And next thing you know, you’ve got yourself a nearly incurable case of antibiotic-resistant Super-Clap: Five years ago, the CDC said fluoroquinolones were no longer effective, but oral cephalosporins were still a common/easy treatment. Now injected ceftriaxone is the only recommended effective drug we have left. […]

Memo for Oliver Willis

Your make the intriguing assertion that it’s bad form for the press corps to tell the version of events favored by the campaign: So it appears that the Romney campaign briefed multiple news outlets about the behind the scenes of how they hid Paul Ryan’s selection from the media. I’m not saying this isn’t a […]

Paul Ryan in the American Spectator

When you think about qualifications as vice president, the first thing you have to ask is, “Have they written for the American Spectator?” Paul Ryan’s byline first appeared in the American Spectator in July 2009, and today he’s back with a column slamming Obama’s “you didn’t build that” rhetoric: President Obama recently made a stunning remark […]

Swedish Socialist Hypocrisy

Leftist dies, hilarious hijinks ensue: “Greedy” means “you won’t give me what I want, just because it’s yours, not mine.”

#RomneyRyan Ohio: Shout It Out Loud!

“These are the biggest crowds, some of the biggest enthusiasm that we’ve seen at Romney campaign events . . . This is as loud as I have heard a Romney campaign rally . . . This crowd is fired up. This campaign is fired up right now.” — Jim Acosta, CNN, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 […]

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