The Other McCain

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

Lady Gaga-Gate Continues

Yesterday, I noted the RNC’s emphatic denial that they knew anything about this. Well, that denial was apparently wrong: Following up on reports that Lady Gaga was offered — and turned down — $1 million to perform at last year’s Republican National Convention, Jeff Quinton has obtained documents and e-mails showing that an RNC official was privy […]

The Other War on Women, or: It’s Not Harassment When Democrats Do It

He “pulled a weiner”: A state representative in Massachussetts is  being investigated after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to a  government computer. The investigation is ongoing and the  committee has not formally reprimanded the individual in charge, but it is being  widely reported that Democratic State Representative John Fresolo is the one  behind the […]

But … It’s Science!

Every day, it seems, we read headlines about new research that “proves” this, that or the other thing. My favorite such research was a study that found larger-breasted women are more intelligent. Can we trust such research? Alas, a story on the front page of today’s Washington Post indicates we should be cautious consumers of science: […]

Shorter Juan Williams: I’m Sorry My Underpaid Assistant Plagiarized That Column With My Byline I Didn’t Write

Who am I to judge, huh? Hasn’t it been my lifelong ambition to get paid big bucks without actually doing any work? But the rock star dream didn’t happen, so I was forced to resort to journalism, which requires me to sit in front of a laptop computer and at least pretend that this is […]

‘MalaysiaGate’ Day Four: Conspicuous Silence and Convenient Memory Lapses

June 2008: Jerome Armstrong posted to Photostream this photo of him and Josh Treviño meeting with Zaid Ibrahim in Malaysia (click image to enlarge) Questions about the “MalaysiaGate” controversy — in which American bloggers were paid as part of a foreign government’s public-relations campaign — continued to be asked Monday, the fourth day since Rosie Gray of […]

However, She Is Not a Witch

Headline, New York Daily News: Former Miss Delaware Teen USA lost tiara over porn role that paid just $1,500: producers

‘Professional Escort’ Tells Daily Caller Menendez Was One of Her Clients

It is, necessarily, a one-source story: A professional escort who travels the East Coast seeing clients in cities from Miami to Boston has identified a photo of Senator Bob Menendez as a man who paid her for sex. The woman, in her late 30s, told The Daily Caller prior to seeing Menendez’s photo that she had […]

It’s Internet Crazy Day: Special Ironic Menendez ‘Healthy Youth’ Edition

Historians will perhaps remember Feb. 22, 2013, as the Day the Internet Finally Went Completely Bugfucking Nuts. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 22, 2013 OK, I spent most of this morning exchanging e-mails with various suffering victims of the Butt-Hurt Epidemic that is laying waste to the online world today. If anybody has personal […]

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