The Other McCain

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

Fanaticism Is Such A Bore

by Smitty Allahpundit: Having one of the world’s most prominent atheists admit he’s not totally sure is catnip for believers, but all he’s doing is being a conscientious skeptic. Total certainty, in my humble, is fanaticism. The kind you encounter in sporting explosive fashion. For all I’m deeply certain that the Jewish carpenter is actually […]

From The ‘You Really Must Be Having Me On’ Department

by Smitty At The Onion, it was a joke in bad taste. My threshold for sacrilege is kind of high. But to read in WND that: At the forefront of the controversy are the Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Frontiers, all of which are producing Bible translations that remove or modify […]

Obama’s Contraceptive Disinformation

Some readers may wonder why I haven’t published anything about the battle over mandatory contraceptive coverage under ObamaCare. Basically, it’s because every time I try to do it, I tend to write a couple of thousand words before discarding the draft. However, yesterday I was CC’d on an e-mail that some crazy woman sent to multiple […]

I Thought Fischer Sounded Fishy

by Smitty Bryan Fischer. . .ah, yes, back in April, when the stench of his writing reached me in Bagram, Afghanistan. When we pick a president, we are in fact choosing a minister of God . . .if we allow the Scriptures to speak for themselves, we are in fact choosing a minister when we […]

Newt Staffer Fired for Mormon ‘Cult’ Comment Got a Raw Deal, Source Says

When I blogged about this controversy last night, I realized the story would cut at least three ways: Gingrich would be hurt by association with a “controversy.” Most people would just hear a blurb about it on TV or radio and absorb the notion that Newt was somehow connected to what would appear to be […]

Burning Mosques, Rabbi Hammerman?

by Smitty via Ace I realize this is hyperbole, sut still: If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants. While America has become more inclusive since Jerry Falwell’s first political forays, a Tebow […]

Yeshiva Girls Gone Wild

You know you’re reading bad porn when you get lines like this: After all of our secret rendezvouses, I’m still not used to seeing him without his yarmulke on, but this time it’s somewhat of a comfort. Sweetheart: “Rendezvouses“? I’d expel you for bad grammar. This anonymous article in the Yeshiva University Beacon has caused […]

New Robert Spencer Book Promises To Be An Interesting Read On Islam

by Smitty That’s a provocative title: “Far from an anti-Islamic polemic, Did Muhammad Exist? is a sober and unflinching look at the origins of one of the world’s major religions. While Judaism and Christianity have been subjected to searching historical criticism for more than two centuries, Islam has, astonishingly, never received the same treatment on […]

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