The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.08.11

TOP NEWS Progress, But No Deal On Budget? Continuing resolution passed by House; Obama promises to veto it Powerful New Quake Batters Japan Two killed, but no additional damage to Fukushima reactors Tsunami Warning Lifted (Video) Hedge Funds Chase Opportunities In Japan After Quake NATO Admits Air Strike On Rebel Forces Friendly fire incident triggers […]

Wound + Salt = ‘Hey, Liberals, How Are You Liking That Wisconsin Result?’

Yesterday afternoon, when it looked like liberal Joanne Kloppenburg had narrowly defeated Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, I was in abject misery. Now? Baby, I feel fine! In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold released new vote totals adding a net total of 7,582 new votes in the tight state […]

Daniel Hannan Palate Cleanser

by Smitty Even working briefly with ideas familiar to readers of this blog, Hannan remains a spot-on palate cleanser: He is also well worth your time in print. His polar opposite is the Bearded Clown, Krugman. I have rarely seen a human being so misguided, seemingly incapable of grasping that the very ideas he espouses […]

Not To Go Blaming The Victims, But ‘Ezra Klein Urban Planning’ Is A Wash

by Smitty Have we pilloried Ezra Klein enough for his über-knob assertion that “it’s impossible to understand the US Constitution because it’s over 100 years old”? No. The notion that ‘wisdom is timeless’ is like Levis 501 blue jeans, only older. Old like an obelisk whose wisdom you ignore at your peril. “High dwellings are […]

BREAKING: Air Strikes Hit Libyan Rebel Tanks, Spark ‘Mass Panic’ in Ajdabiyah

News accounts are very confusing and contradictory at this point, but it appears that the Libyan rebels who had been trying to re-take the port city of Brega sustained a serious defeat today, and may even be prepared to abandon Ajdabiyah, 50 miles east of Brega on the coast highway. Here is a report from […]

$39,978 a Year

That’s the undergraduate tuition at Dartmouth College, where Josh Riddle and David Rufful are students. And here’s their new rap video, “Obama, Reid, Pelosi”: Riddle and Rufful got written up at The Blaze by Emily Esfahani Smith (Dartmouth ’09), who has never once linked my blog. Also, Riddle and Rufful are on the staff of The […]

One Does Hope This Is Pure Bluff

by Smitty CNS News reports “Soldiers Won’t Get Paid Under Government Shutdown, Medicare Payments Would Continue, Obama Administration Determines” Soldiers will continue to earn money but not be paid during a government shutdown, a senior Obama administration official said.  “Military will continue to work as I described earlier,” the official said. “They will continue to […]

Meet a Typical Anti-American Elitist

Her wedding was reported by the New York Times in 2006: When they met at last, it was by transcontinental telephone in fall 2003. Ms. Akner, then working in New York as the director of education at MediaBistro, a Web site for print and electronic journalism, hired Mr. Brodesser, then a reporter for Variety in […]

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