14-Year-Old Anamika Veeramani Wins National Spelling Bee; Sen. Jake Knotts Could Not Be Reached for Comment
Will Folks, on the other hand . . oh, no, let’s don’t go there: No theatrical flourishes for Anamika Veeramani. She kept her hands behind her back and rattled off the letters of every word she was given — until she was crowned the spelling bee champion. The 14-year-old girl from North Royalton, Ohio, won […]
Best. Ugandan. Video. Evah!
To quote The Right Scoop, “CONTENT WARNING“!
Skepticism and Independence: Bad!
That’s the essential thrust of Mark Lilla’s lengthy essay in the New York Review of Books: [W]e need to see [the Tea Party movement] as a manifestation of deeper social and even psychological changes that the country has undergone in the past half-century. Quite apart from the movement’s effect on the balance of party power, […]
‘Dear Penthouse Forum . . .’
“A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks. Will Manly, who said the New York-based Wilson Library Bulletin withheld the results of his survey in 1992, published results recently on his Web site indicating 51 percent of […]
Maloney Aids The Cause
by Smitty (via Ace) E. C. Maloney strikes again. Personally, I hope that nobody is killed while saving the country from the fascist takeover. I would that every leader pass old, and full of years, and that these lousy Progressives become fully aware of how false their ideas are. I met Maloney at CPAC a […]
‘A Special Talent for Driving Liberals Nuts’
My good buddy Jason Mattera punks Steny Hoyer: I first met Mattera in 2006, not long after he graduated from Rogers Williams University and, as I’ve said, the Young America’s Foundation spokesman “seems to have been born with a special talent for driving liberals nuts.” Read the rest of that. And be sure to buy […]
Ann Coulter Hears a Houle
They shut down her speech Tuesday in the People’s Republic of Ottawa, but the Canadian Thought Police couldn’t prevent her from filing her latest column: This marks the first time I’ve ever gotten hate mail for something I might do in the future. Apparently Canadian law forbids “promoting hatred against any identifiable group,” which the provost, […]
Eric Massa’s Next Job?
He’s snorkeled his way out of the Navy, groped his way out of Congress and flunked his tryout as a Fox News regular contributor, so obviously Mr. Tickles is going to need another career that suits his unique abilities and interests. Public school teacher? They do such a good job teaching us to read . . . who […]
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