The Other McCain

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

Chicago Woman Dies After Abortion

A 24-year-old Chicago woman died Friday after receiving an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic, CBS News reports. Tonya Reaves died of a hemorrhage after undergoing a type of abortion procedure called “cervical dilation and evacuation” at the Michigan Avenue clinic, according to the medical examiner’s officer. “It happened so fast,” the dead woman’s twin sister, […]

‘Zimbabwe’ Ben Rides Again?

by Smitty The post title is meant to connect Ben Bernanke with ruinous monetary policy in another country, not as a derogation of the fine people of Zimbabwe, who certainly deserve better than a Bernanke riff. Financial Times reports that, while the Federal Reserve isn’t addicted to the cocaine of currency inflation, the Fed does […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.23.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Heaviest Rain To Hit Beijing In Six Decades Kills 37 25 drownings, 6 killed by collapsing buildings, 5 electrocutions and one lightning strike. Seriously? Riot Erupts After Shooting By Anaheim Police Officers involved in shooting placed on leave President Obama Stoic After Meeting Aurora Shooting Victims Romney praises Obama […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Burning Photographs

— compiled by Wombat-socho Standard disclaimer: some of the following links are to photographs liable to cause unfavorable reactions from wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, fellow workers, bosses, Gender Studies majors, and other people in a position to make your life miserable or otherwise pollute your purity of essence. Discretion is advised. Randy’s Roundtable leads off this […]

America’s Decadent Elite

More than 15 years have passed since Robert Bork published Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, one of the most astute analyses of its kind ever written. Bork emphasized that the 1960s were the pivotal epoch. In his introduction, however, Bork made an important point: The remarkably sudden collapse of the “Establishment” under the assault of Sixties […]

Heston

by Smitty

Obama Campaign: Money for Nothing

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia A week ago, a Republican source pointed out that when the Obama campaign admitted its June fundraising fell short of Mitt Romney’s, they didn’t report their cash-on-hand total — an indication, the source suggested, that Team Obama’s spending was out of control. As I said, readers could “expect the Democrat freakout to intensify […]

No, Richard Kim, The U.S. Is Not As Jacked Up As Syria, Despite Your Ilk

by Smitty Melissa Harris-Perry’s show featured Richard Kim from The Nation.com spouting what initially seemed more Commie piffle, but then I realized it’s kind of revelatory: Do we want to live in that night?”Not with your creepy little indecent self, Kim. Why don’t you go line up for Sarah Silverman? Kim Smitty “The Dark Knight […]

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