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

Rule 5 in the News: New Jersey Prudes Call Cops on Nude Snow Sculpture

The same kind of anti-fun activists who complain about the Pamela Anderson blog ad are everywhere: She was a frosty Venus de Milo, but one Rahway family’s snow-packed tribute to the Greek goddess of love and beauty was another person’s pornography. Maria Conneran and her family worked feverishly to fashion their armless, nude snowlady from […]

Oh, Great: Senate Plans to Entrust U.S. Financial System to Federal Reserve?

The kind of economic insanity only Chris Dodd could concoct: Key members of the Senate Banking Committee, after months of negotiations, are expected to unveil their proposal within the next week, people familiar with the negotiations said. While the sources cautioned that no agreement has been reached, the lawmakers, led by the panel’s chairman, Sen. […]

Rick Perry Beats Kay Bailey Hutchison

Don’t mess with Texas: Gov. Rick Perry won a decisive victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Texas GOP primary for governor Tuesday night, bringing a bruising fight between two of the state’s most popular Republicans to an anticlimactic conclusion. Perry said his win should send a message to Washington. “Quit spending all the […]

If Rangel Indeed Departs…

by Smitty It isn’t clear at the moment whether he’s gone or his opponents are just applying pressure. From the standpoint of those who care about the country, here’s Rush offering One Little Victory: The video quality is sad, but Wikipedia has a clip in .ogg A certain measure of innocence Willing to appear naive […]

How SPLC Hypes the Hate

Dangerous extremist militias taking over America? The Southern Poverty Law Center reports “an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) – a 244% jump” from 2008. OK, so let’s ask a question: How does the SPLC get these numbers? […]

How Doomed Is Charlie Crist?

Even Salon.com has noticed that Charlie is toast: In February 2009, Crist embraced, both figuratively and literally, President Barack Obama when Obama came to Florida to tout the economic stimulus package that had not yet become law. At the time, both Obama’s and Crist’s favorability ratings were high in Florida. . . . Crist’s opponents […]

Coffee Party: Yeah, We Can Backronym The Beaners

by Smitty Fishersville Mike, fellow Virginian and backronym fetishist, starts the festivities, and has quite a serviceable outing. My offering is slightly less charitable: Can Only Find Festivity in Effete Emuluation I can’t add much to Legal Insurrection and American Power’s floggings of the Coffee Party. It rather makes sense that the slack-jawed left would […]

Fake Hate Update: ‘Minority’ Student Confesses to UCSD Noose Hoax

An increasingly familiar type of liberal campus activism: The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation. The noose’s discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged […]

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