The Other McCain

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

Herman Cain Issues Clarification

Walking back his widely-criticized remarks on Fox News Sunday about the Palestinian “right of return”: I have long been a vocal and unwavering supporter of our friend and ally, Israel. All Israeli governments have rejected the “right” of large numbers of Arabs or Palestinians to return to what is now the state of Israel. Such […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.23.11

TOP NEWS At Least 24 Killed As Tornado Shreds Joplin Kathy Dennis of the American Red Cross: “I would say 75 percent of the town is virtually gone.” Militants Storm Naval Base In Karachi Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility Daniels Out, Pawlenty In Indiana governor cites family concerns in decision not to run for President POLITICS […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Shotgun Girl

Whatever else happens as we wend our way through this vale of tears, beset on every side by the snares of the wicked and numerologically challenged false prophets who wouldn’t know the Kabbalah from the Peoples’ Cube, we may rest assured of one thing: Soylent Green delivers the important news we need, especially when the […]

Ace of Spades Gets It

“The New Aristocracy isn’t made by blood but by credentials,” Ace writes, commenting on a Mark Steyn column about the Strauss-Kahn sex scandal. One of the most unfortunate consequences of the controversy that enveloped The Bell Curve is that, by affixing the “racism” label to Murray and Herrnstein’s book, liberals discouraged people from acquainting themselves […]

Beck and O’Reilly vs. Hannity?

Among the many interesting tidbits in Gabriel Sherman’s gossipy 6,000-word article about Roger Ailes and Fox News: Sean Hannity complained to [Fox News programming chief] Bill Shine about Beck. And it didn’t help matters that O’Reilly, who had become friends with Beck and can’t stand Hannity, scheduled Beck as a regular guest, a move that only […]

Because Life Is Beautiful

“I’ve never set out to win a popularity contest. I came from [being previously pro-choice], but when I was confronted with the science — and I spoke to top scientists throughout our country asking, ‘Would you please just show me some shred of evidence that the unborn is not a human being?’ and no one […]

FMJRA 2.0: Take Me Back To You

Holy Freaking Crap: Time Magazine’s GOP 2012 Chart Omits Herman Cain! Little Miss Attila Da Tech Guy SI VIS PACEM Instapundit The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative Outside the Beltway Adelie Manchot Marfdrat The Very, Very Bad President Dyspepsia Generation Frenchman Shocked to Discover It’s Illegal to Sodomize Your Hotel Maid in U.S. The (Perhaps […]

Mitch Daniels Won’t Run in 2012; Cites ‘Overwhelming’ Herman Cain Momentum

OK, he didn’t actually say anything about Herman Cain: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told supporters in an email early Sunday that he will not run for president in 2012, a decision he said ultimately came down to his family’s reticence about a campaign. The announcement by the former Office of Management and Budget director and […]

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