The Other McCain

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

Will ObamaCare Cover This Injury?

An unexpected occuptional hazard: CLEVELAND — A woman was seriously injured after a bizarre incident inside a local strip club early Wednesday morning. It happened at Christie’s Caberet in The Flats, just after 1 a.m. According to police, 22-year-old Lauren Block, of Richmond Heights, was reportedly on the second floor of the club when she […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.04.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Boehner Barely Survives As Speaker Ten Republicans withhold votes, cutting margin to three; Pelosi also suffers five defections Disputes Brewing If Chavez Too Sick To Attend Own Inauguration Venezuelan government says president suffering from severe lung infection Argentina Reasserts Claims To Falklands President Kirchner releases letter calling on UK […]

World’s Least Intimidating Criminal

Say hello to Zachary Dalton Howard of Niceville, Florida. About 10 p.m. on Dec. 22, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department, 22-year-old Howard walked into a convenience store “dressed in a long black coat, hoodie and blue jeans. He told the clerk he had a firearm but never showed a weapon. He left without […]

Joe Biden, Class Act

Three headlines from Drudge: Biden gets frisky with senator’s wife… ‘Spread your legs — you’re going to be frisked’… Deploys strange accent to welcome family of only black member… Remember when they said Sarah Palin wasn’t ready to be vice president?

Memoir, Narcissism and the Problem of the Unreliable First-Person Narrator

In addition to its advice about “Crazy Hot Sex” (“10 Secrets to Intense Action”), the February issue of Cosmo features an interview with an actress you probably never heard of before. Julianne Hough tells Cosmo that when she was studying dance in London as a girl, she “was abused, mentally, physically, everything. . . . […]

@DailyPundit, Optimist At Large

by Smitty But since [the re-election of Rep. Boehner as Speaker] just a squabble over the leadership of the minority faction of the Ruling Party, none of this has a great deal of meaning in the larger scheme of things. No matter who is in charge of the GOP faction, everything will continue to go […]

Alternate Headline for Current TV Deal

The top of Memeorandum is cluttered with news that Al Gore’s Current TV was sold to Al-Jazeera, but Allahpundit nails the real story: Al Gore opposed to paying his ‘fair share’ Liberal hypocrisy, thy name is Al: Al Jazeera did not disclose the purchase price, but people with direct knowledge of the deal pegged it […]

Gun Control and the Politics of Ignorance

“Senator Feinstein’s latest attack on the Second Amendment relies entirely on public ignorance of firearms and their legitimate uses,” writes William A. Levinson in an American Thinker article answering the question, “Why Does Anybody Need a 30-Round Magazine?” It’s important to consider worst-case scenarios: Suppose that you found yourself in a conflict with multiple assailants, each armed […]

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