The Other McCain

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If ‘Crazy’ Were a Political Philosophy, Its Spokesman Would Be Alex Jones

Does any sane person take Alex Jones seriously, except as a deranged menace? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 8, 2013 Remember when Alex Jones sicced a mob of kooks on Michelle Malkin during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver? “She wants to put us in camps!” Crazy is not a political philosophy, and […]

Everybody Hates Gawker’s @JohnJCook and It’s About Damned Time, Too

John J. Cook of Gawker is whining that he’s gotten death threats because he published a two-year-old list of registered gun owners in New York City. (Don’t worry: Links here don’t go to Gawker.) As Twitchy points out, what Gawker has accidentally done is to provide an excellent argument against registering your guns. John J. Cook is […]

Alternate Headline for Current TV Deal

The top of Memeorandum is cluttered with news that Al Gore’s Current TV was sold to Al-Jazeera, but Allahpundit nails the real story: Al Gore opposed to paying his ‘fair share’ Liberal hypocrisy, thy name is Al: Al Jazeera did not disclose the purchase price, but people with direct knowledge of the deal pegged it […]

CNN’s Foreign Subversive Piers Morgan ‘Threatens’ to Leave U.S. Over Guns

At the end of a long rambling anti-gun diatribe: In conclusion, I can spare those Americans who want me deported a lot of effort by saying this: If you don’t change your gun laws to at least try to stop this relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage, then you don’t have to worry about deporting […]

Hey, I’d Watch That Show

Mark Steyn imagines the scene when the outlaw is apprehended: When the D.C. SWAT team, the FBI, and the ATF take out NBC News and the whole building goes up in one almighty fireball, David Gregory will be the crazed loon up on the roof like Jimmy Cagney in White Heat: “Made it, Ma! Top […]

Everybody Hates Piers Morgan

The petition to deport Piers Morgan is now nearing 90,000 signatures — which is what I’d call “a good start” — and this groundswell of antipathy to being lectured by a smarmy Brit on CNN has now reached America’s youth, including Michael Butler at The High School Conservative: Piers Morgan “has a case of the sads” […]

‘A Lucrative But Risky Decision’

That’s what the New York Times calls it when teenagers get good jobs: The New York Times seems concerned that teens in the fracking belt of eastern Montana are opting to work in the new oil-field economy right after high school rather than going straight on to college. A front-page story warns: Taking a job […]

Objectively Worse: Democrats to Blame for the Hyper-Partisanship They Decry

NYPD arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, Oct. 1, 2011 Commenting on the post-election rancor — e.g., Log Cabin Republicans targeting Chuck Hagel — Professor Glenn Reynolds observes: You know, somebody — Dave Weigel or Matt Yglesias, I think — was tweeting the other day that the GOP was doing worse post-election than […]

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