The Other McCain

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

The Lutheran Menace!

Radical Lutheran fundamentalists strike again: Two men arrested in relation to an alleged terror plot in New York City were of Moroccan and Algerian descent, FOX News reported Thursday. Moroccan Mohammad Mamdouh and Algerian Ahmed Serhani were arrested late Wednesday and were expected to be charged under the state’s terrorism laws

Another Bad Liberal Idea That Failed

“Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f–ing Peace Corps.” — Joseph “Bluto” Blutarsky, upon learning he and the other members of Delta Tau Chi are being expelled from Faber College, in Animal House (1978) The Peace Corps was created by President John F. Kennedy as a haven for draft-dodgers […]

NY-26 Update: Fake ‘Tea Party’ Candidate Davis Skips Debate, Attacks Cameraman

This video of Crazy Jack Davis is making the rounds today: For reasons unknown, Crazy Jack pulled out of today’s debate in Rochester with Republican Jane Corwin and Democrat Kathy Hochul. The cameraman, a GOP volunteer, was trying to ask Davis why he canceled his debate appearance less than two weeks before the May 24 special […]

‘This Defies Any Further Explanation’

That’s the caption Larry O’Connor of Breitbart TV supplies for this video of ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis singing “Wal-Mart Sucks” at a mocking “church” event in New York City: (Via Memeorandum.) Well, you may ask, who is Bertha Lewis? What does Bertha Lewis believe? She spoke during a March meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists: […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.12.11

TOP NEWS Whose Side Is Pakistan’s ISI On? A good look into the murky, sometimes two-faced Pakistani intelligence agency Jury Scuttle “Jolly Raj-er” Galleon Group founder  convicted of insider trading Flood’s Crest Delivers Fresh Misery In Mississippi Nine of the eleven counties affected in Mississippi have poverty rates of 27% or more POLITICS Gingrich Courts […]

In the Future, Every Semi-Famous Woman Will Be Photographed Naked

An addendum to Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” prophecy, based on two items at the celebrity gossip aggregator WeSmirch: EXCLUSIVE: Mick Jagger’s daughter Lizzy Jagger nude in new Playboy Ex-Charlie Sheen ‘goddess’ poses for ‘Playboy’? So that Set A (“semi-famous women”) and Set B (“nude women”) eventually will overlap to such a degree as […]

BREAKING: New Iowa Poll Shows Herman Cain Surge to Double-Digit Lead

Via Steve Foley at Citizens for Cain: Herman Cain . . . . . . . .23.7% Mike Huckabee . . . . . . 12.3% Newt Gingrich . . . . . . . 9.7% Ron Paul . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1% Sarah Palin . . . […]

Of Straw Men, Politics and Policy

Here is (limited) praise of the use of “straw men” in discourse and, guest-blogging at Instapundit, Kenneth Anderson says, “I rather agree.” Stipulate that creating a tendentious characterization of an opposing argument for the sake of argument is nothing particularly objectionable. If all you are doing is hashing out ideas in a more or less […]

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