The Other McCain

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

‘MuffinGate’: Obama Says We Must Tax the Rich Because Federal Officials Can’t Do Without $5 Swedish Meatballs

The rich must “pay their fair share” or Obama will veto any deficit-reduction legislation. Why? Because the only alternative is to reduce the catering bill: U.S. Justice Department agencies spent too much for food at conferences, in one case serving $16 muffins and in another dishing out beef Wellington appetizers that cost $7.32 per serving, an […]

Solyndra: Pump and Dump

A Wall Street Journal article quotes an investor in Obama’s bankrupt “green energy” boondoggle describing what the half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee meant: “There was a perceived halo around the loan . . . If we get the loan, then we can definitely go public and cash out.” Ed Lasky at American Thinker explains: The huge loan […]

Solyndra as Symbol and Metaphor

“Where are you going to find a nickel’s worth of business sense in an administration where there’s no private-sector experience? And caution is for lesser mortals, not The One and his chosen crew.” — Glenn Reynolds, “SolarGate Update” The half-billion deficit dollars pissed away on a bankrupt boondoggle of “green jobs” may become the scandal […]

SCOAMF Scandal: Investigation of Obama’s Solyndra Cronies Continues

Big trouble with Obama’s “green energy” scam buddies: Federal agents have expanded their examination of the now-bankrupt California solar power company Solyndra, searching the homes of the company’s CEO and two of its executives, examining computer files and documents, iWatch News and ABC News have learned. Agents visited the homes of CEO Brian Harrison and […]

Sexualizing 3-Year Olds on Cable TV? Hooker Costume on ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’

Meet 3-year-old Paisley, a pageant contestant on the TLC series Toddlers and Tiaras, whose mother got the genius idea to dress her as Julia Roberts’s prostitute character from Pretty Woman: The Parents Television Council is understandably outraged: “We have a serious problem when The Learning Channel features a toddler, who probably hasn’t even learned to […]

French Plutocrat 1, Hotel Maid 0

That’s the final score of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex scandal: All charges have been dropped against the former International Monetary Fund boss. We now look forward to the obligatory Amanda Marcotte auto-beclownment which, as night follows day, completes every major sex scandal.

Unlike a Wall Street CEO, Blogger Can’t Afford Mistresses in Three Countries

Meet John Duffy, a multimillionaire investment banker who is probably about to become a few multi-millions poorer when his wife’s divorce lawyers get through with him: John Duffy, 62, the married CEO of the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods investment bank, has lavished millions of dollars’ worth of homes, jewelry and sexy outfits from Victoria’s Secret […]

‘War Hero’ Who Attested to John Kerry’s Vietnam Heroism Turns Out to Be Liar and Kiddie Porn … Um, ‘Researcher’

You know I’m having kind of a lazy day on the blog when — twice in a single day — I’m like, “Hey, did you see that awesome story Ace had two hours ago?” Anyway . . . Wade Sanders was the “Swift Boat” officer who introduced Courageous Vietnam War Hero John Kerry at the […]

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