The Other McCain

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

Irony Alert: Eric Boehlert Is an Expert on What Is ‘Ugly and Contemptible’

“. . . that didn’t stop him from launching the smear campaign. And that’s what Andrew Breitbart and Fox News and the right-wing media does. They’ve been doing it for a long time and it’s sort of ugly and contemptible, and if he had any decency, he’d apologize to Shirley Sherrod. He’d also stop with […]

There Are Some Things That Only Democrats Can Get Away With; UPDATE: Shirley Sherrod Resigns!

Including public declarations of racial discrimination: Speaking of rural Georgia, if you live in Georgia’s 12th District and don’t like being represented by Shirley Sherrod’s fellow Democrat John Barrow, remember to vote Tuesday for Ray McKinney, who just got endorsed by the Tea Party Express. UPDATE: Fox News: The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published […]

‘Jeremiah, You Demented Old Bastard’

Doug Hagin’s Daley Gator podcast examines Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology: Doug’s talking about this video posted at Weasel Zippers:

Who Is Todd Gaziano?

That’s the question raised by the Ben Smith column at Politico in which Abigail Thernstrom accuses her fellow Republican members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission of exploiting the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in pursuit of “their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.” Thernstrom herself is well-known as a […]

Repeat After Me: Raaaaacism Is DNA-Based Decision Making

by Smitty Also, sexism. ‘Diversity’, in the Progressive Inverted Tongue (PIT)*, just means that some Affirmative Action mafia manages the raaaaacism, ‘white’ washing it with the magic squiggle (signature) of some bureaucrat. La Shawn Barber points to a post at Minding the Campus, where Russell K. Nieli explores “How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and […]

Duke Lacrosse Rape Accuser Headed to Court on Attempted Murder Charge

Thanks to Bob Owens for this update on Crystal Mangum: A Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University athletes of rape four years ago will be in court Monday on a separate case in which she faces multiple charges, including attempted first-degree murder. . . . Police said she assaulted her boyfriend, Milton Walker, set […]

Immigration, Assimilation and Sovereignty

Michelle Malkin writes about “the unhyphenated, the law-abiding, the gratitude-filled sons and daughters and grandchildren of legal immigrants” and supplies a  brief history of the Founding Fathers’ views on immigration and assimilation. As I’ve often said, the way liberals (including some Republicans who think they’re conservative) talk about immigration, you might get the idea that Emma Lazarus […]

The Two Things I Want From Farrakhan

by Smitty Gateway Pundit links a recent bloviation from Mr. Farrakhan attempting a shakedown of Jewish leaders. At the risk of raising Stacy’s hackles, I’ll reveal that my in-country ancestors fought for the North those years ago. Thus, if LF feels comfortable trying to hold contemporary leaders of any stripe accountable for purported past persecutions, […]

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