The Other McCain

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

Killer Socialist Professor Update

Harvard-educated murderer Amy Bishop displayed her enlightened, sophisticated academic temperament: In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother. Bishop, according to a police report, strode over to […]

‘Almost Never’ Is Once Too Often

“Certainly, there are lots of socialists on college faculties across the land. Happily, they almost never engage in killing sprees.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway UPDATE: The plot thickens: The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of […]

Attention, Ugly Women: You Do Not
Have the Right to a Job as a Stripper

You might not need to be told this. Obviously, being a stripper is one of those jobs — like NASCAR driver — where good looks are very important. Most ugly women understand this concept, and therefore seek careers as tenured university professors, a field where looks are inconsequential. However, vocational guidance counselors forgot to explain […]

‘Random Tragedy’ Not So Random: Socialist Serial Killer Amy Bishop

“It’s always baffling to me when people try to politicize random tragedies — usually while they’re breaking news stories with little real information.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway Joyner is (a) from Alabama and (b) has a Ph.D., and I’m sorry if that caused anyone’s head to explode — “An intellectual? From Alabama?” — […]

‘Noticeably Monosyllabic’

So says AOL News editor Steve Pendlebury, sampling blog reaction to the arrest of James O’Keefe: Michelle Malkin: Ugh Hot Air’s Allahpundit: Ohhhh boy Political Byline: D’oh! The Other McCain: Ruh-Roh Instapundit Glenn Reynolds: Hmm Maybe he expected us to say, “Wiretapping is as American as apple pie” or “If Mary Landrieu doesn’t get wiretapped, the […]

Is That 44 Geckos in Your Pants, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

You can’t make this up: A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand’s wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled. Hans Kurt Kubus, 58, is to be deported to Germany as soon as he is released from […]

Ruh-Roh

A troubling story from New Orleans: Alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility. Also arrested were Joseph […]

Obama Discriminates Against Foreigners

NTTAWWT: Citizens of 14 nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, who are flying to the United States will be subjected indefinitely to the intense screening at airports worldwide that was imposed after the Christmas Day bombing plot, Obama administration officials announced Sunday. (Via Memeorandum.) Spencer Ackerman appears to be skeptical, which means

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