The Other McCain

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

Lawyer for Ohio Police Union Tells Republican State Senator: ‘Funny Thing About Cops, They Hold Grudges’

Ohio’s state Senate yesterday passed S.B. 5, which would limit the power of government employee unions. Among those voting for the measure was state Sen. Frank LaRose, a 31-year-old freshman Republican from Akron. After the passage of S.B. 5, LaRose’s Facebook page filled up with comments, including one from Michael Sarge Piotrowski who — as […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.03.11

TOP NEWS Libyan Rebels Repulse Raid On Brega Khadafy: Libyans will die if US intervenes Gates: Notion of force against Libya “loose talk” Supremes Rule For “Free Speech” Over Decency; Approves Phelps Clan Stupidity At Funerals “…a ringing endorsement of free speech with an outcome that almost no one liked…” Wikileaks Source Manning Faces 22 […]

Your Daily Charlie Sheen Update

“It seems crazy to everybody else, but for us, I mean, it works well.” — Natalie Kenly, one of Charlie Sheen’s “goddesses” “I am very concerned that [Sheen] is currently insane. I am in great fear that he will find me and attack me and I am in great fear for the children’s safety while […]

Hey, Maybe Glenn Beck Was Right

You may recall that, when the Egyptian revolution first popped into the news, Glenn Beck caught a lot of grief for saying that the American Left was in league with Islamists to destabilize the Middle East. What Beck said — or perhaps the way he said it — seemed a bit kookier than that, but […]

Sheila Jackson-Lee: Boss From Hell

Everybody on Capitol Hill has stories to tell about members of Congress who are screaming tyrants toward their staff. John McCain is notorious in that regard. But by far the worst bosses on Capitol Hill are women members, and one might narrow down that list by saying “liberal Democratic congresswomen,” among whom a particuilarly vile specimen is Rep. […]

Who Is John Galt?

The makers of the new movie Atlas Shrugged: Part I have invited me to an exclusive screening today in Washington, D.C. Here’s the trailer: They’ve taken a huge gamble, producing this ambitious film under a tight deadline and on a tight budget. During the CPAC blogger bash at FreedomWorks, they previewed four scenes from the […]

‘Centrist’ Obama?

Obama’s decision to dump the Defense of Marriage Act exposes the bogusness of his mythical “move to the center”: It also is increasingly clear that Mr. Obama has learned nothing from the “shellacking” his party took in the midterm elections, despite all the talk to the contrary from his sycophants in the media about his […]

Note to Self: Never Link Xconomy.com

Megan McArdle at the (soon-to-be-Sully-free) Atlantic linked and excerpted an interview that Xconomy.com did with a venture capitalist, Ken Kinsella. The World’s Tallest Female Blogger admits that her excerpting — more than a third of a 2,100-word article — was way over the “fair use” line and, while she included a link to the article, she named […]

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