The Other McCain

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

Professor on Aborted Babies: ‘I Look at Them Unflinchingly and See Meat’

“I’ve scooped brains out of buckets, I’ve counted dendrites in slices cut from the brains of dead babies. You want to make me back down by trying to inspire revulsion with dead baby pictures? I look at them unflinchingly and see meat. And meat does not frighten me.” — Paul Z. Myers, University of Minnesota […]

The Governor California Deserves

Wrecking the state in the name of civil rights: Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday called education funding a civil rights issue, defending his plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies as necessary to reduce California’s yawning budget deficit and to push more tax revenue to schools and public safety. “We take from redevelopment and we put $1 […]

Jesse Walker on Loughner and Zeitgeist

In the immediate aftermath of the Tucson massacre, the mainstream media went chasing after “right-wing” phantoms, as the managing editor of Reason magazine explains: In the meantime, people who actually knew the killer were talking to the press, dropping clues about what Loughner really was reading and viewing. Loughner’s friend Zach Osler, for example, told ABC that while […]

A Liberal Looks at Zeitgeist

She hates conservatives and doesn’t seem to care too much for me, but Sarah Posner at Religious Dispatches is at least willing to take a serious look at the Zeitgeist phenomenon: Because the film draws on a jumble of disparate conspiracy theories — from religion to 9/11 to the Federal Reserve — to paint a […]

Packers Fans: ‘New Tone?’ Bite Me!

Even since Reince Priebus got the RNC chairmanship, Wisconsinians have become increasingly uncivil: Via notorious “Chubby Chaser” Dan Collins. We’re currently preparing for our First Annual Dan Collins Plus-Size Dream Girl Lingerie Show.

Abortion Is Murder, and Sometimes We Are Brutally Reminded of That Fact

Even the Associated Press can’t ignore this story: A doctor who provided abortions for minorities, immigrants and poor women in a “house of horrors” clinic has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive . . . (Via Memeorandum.) UPDATE: John Hayward at […]

Rush Limbaugh on Zeitgeist

“If the movies you go see tell you that your government was behind the downing of the trade center and the Pentagon in 9/11 — as the movie Zeitgeist did, a documentary — if you were told by Michael Moore that all of this was done on purpose, if you’re told that the rich have […]

Report: Suspect Confesses to 3 Murders in Philadelphia ‘Kensington Strangler’ Case

Police say Antonio Rodriquez, 22, has “made a full confession” in the case of three women murdered last year in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, according to Fox 29 (WTXF-TV) News: Rodriguez was taken into custody Monday in connection with the case after being linked to the sexual assaults and strangling deaths of three women late last […]

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