The Other McCain

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

Unions as a Higher Form of Capitalism

by Smitty As a squid, I’m conditioned to see a union as mutiny awaiting its moment. That viewpoint neglects the historical truth that workers have been exploited historically in the US, and continue to be exploited in sweatshops around the

Porn Is Bad for Kids

You’d think this would be common sense, but some “experts” have dismissed the harm. I agree with Pundette, who says the whole “scientific study” approach is flawed: We don’t really need a study to tell us that tender, developing minds and souls are bound to be malformed and damaged by exposure to pornography. One of the weirdest effects […]

There Are Still 5 A’s in Raaaaacist!

I’ve headlined the attack on Hillbuzz, but Cynthia Yockey was out of the chute early with this important background: The Daily Kos and Democratic Underground have outed Kevin DuJan as the owner of the blog, Hill Buzz. They are smearing him with the false charge that that he is a racist. They are urging their […]

How Do You Pronounce ‘Andrzejewski’?

That’s the question that popped up on Twitter after I posted this news at The American Spectator: It’s not every day that a Nobel Prize winner becomes involved in a U.S. election, but Lech Walesa — famed for his Cold War leadership of the Solidarity movement in Poland — will be campaigning this week for […]

Aspen Weed Fest

OK, you stoners, turn off your iPods, get off the sofa and try to pay attention: A cannabis festival in Aspen this spring will be the first in the state for approved growers to put their strains in a contest. The Western Slope Cannabis Crown will have about 50 medical marijuana growers enter their strains […]

Obama’s Clintonian SOTU

In 2000, I won a $40 newsroom pool at The Washington Times by making the best prediction of the length of Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Address. (Hint: With Clinton, always bet longer.) For a decade, from the late Clinton era and continuing through the Bush years, my job on SOTU nights was to edit […]

Stripper Movie ‘Is a Really Good Story’ for Young Girls, Actress Says

Kristen Stewart, who won legions of young fans in the popular “Twilight” vampire drama, plays an exotic dancer a stripper a dirty whore in her new film Welcome to the Rileys. And it’s a wholesome family funfest! “Most Twilight fans are young girls and this is a really good story for them,” the actress, 19, […]

Iran Discovers the N-Word

Evidently, it has an equivalent in Farsi: Mohammad Javad Larijani criticized the policies adopted by U.S. President Barack Obama and referred to him using a racial epithet. “When Barack Obama was sworn into office he talked of verbally engaging Iran,” the U.C. Berkeley graduate was quoted as saying. “What has changed is that today this […]

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