The Other McCain

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

‘Community Organizing’ Properly Understood: Political Organized Crime

There are two ways to get money: Honestly by hard work, or dishonestly through thievery and fraud. If you vote for politicians because they promise to give you money taken from taxpayers, you are practicing the politics of thievery. We call it “corruption” or “bribery” when businesses give money to politicians in return for their support […]

Obama Helping the Rich Get Richer

If you’re a liberal who thinks Republicans are corrupt pawns of Big Business, and who thinks that Democrats are the party that cares about the poor, isn’t it time you WAKE THE HELL UP? Investigators Probe White House Role in Massive Energy Loan House investigators said they have uncovered evidence that White House officials became personally involved […]

Arianna Huffington Fires Tech Blogger AOL Paid $30 Million to Buy Out

At least that’s what it looks like, but first the background: Remember, AOL in February paid upwards of $300 million to acquire HuffPo in a deal that reportedly gave Arianna “control of all of AOL’s editorial content.” That big effing deal happened less than six months after AOL paid a reported $30 million to buy TechCrunch, […]

Herman Cain Slams Obama on Jobs: ‘Zero Leadership, Zero Plans, Zero Results and Zero Understanding of Basic Economics’

From the Atlanta businessman’s presidential campaign: “We learned today that not a single job was created during the month of August in the United States of America. In the land of endless opportunity and abundant freedom, the very promise that has inspired generations of industrious and innovative people seems to be dwindling away. After trillions […]

‘Let’s Face It, the Color of His Skin’

MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe explains why you hate Obama: “What is it about this President that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the office of the president? Why do Republicans think that this president is unpresidential and shouldn’t dare to request this kind of thing? . . . It strikes me that […]

Tommy Christopher’s New Assignment: Covering Speaker Boehner’s Resignation

Neutral Objective Headline of the Day: Speaker John Boehner Should Resign For His Unprecedented Insult To The President That’s from Tommy Christopher at Mediaite, who adds: The media, meanwhile, ought to abandon its fetish foe false objectivity, and recognize the facts. All parties agree the President gave the Speaker sufficient notice, and I cannot think […]

‘Missed It By That Much, Chief’

Drew M. at AOSHQ reacts with an old Maxwell Smart line to the “unexpectedly” news about August unemployment, as live-blogged this morning by the Wall Street Journal‘s Mark Gongloff: The consensus [expectation was] for 70,000 new payroll jobs and a 9.1% unemployment rate. . . .Payrolls were [unchanged]! Zero jobs. Unemployment came in at 9.1%. . . […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.02.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS White House Forecasts High Unemployment Through 2012 Report sees unemployment rate not returning to 5% until 2018 Democrats Urge Obama To “Go Big” With Jobs Package Gaddafi Promises “War Of Bees” In Audio Message Deposed leader threatens guerrilla warfare Federal Housing Finance Agency To Sue Banks Over Subprime Mortgages […]

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