The Other McCain

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

But … It’s Science!

Every day, it seems, we read headlines about new research that “proves” this, that or the other thing. My favorite such research was a study that found larger-breasted women are more intelligent. Can we trust such research? Alas, a story on the front page of today’s Washington Post indicates we should be cautious consumers of science: […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.12.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Falklands Vote To Stay British Only three residents vote against maintaining overseas territory status; Kirchner dismissive Cardinals Begin Conclave Today Election of new pope could take as long as five days Norks “Scrap” 1953 Armistice “The time for final showdown has arrived,” Rodong Sinmun announces; U.S. unimpressed, imposes further […]

Does Brett Kimberlin Really Need Another Lesson in ‘The Streisand Effect’?

Aaron Walker tells the story of his most recent encounter with the “Speedway Bomber.” It’s like Wile E. Coyote and Acme rocket skates: You might think he’d learn a lesson, but somehow he never does: Brett Kimberlin – who spent 17 years in federal prison after being convicted as Indiana’s infamous “Speedway Bomber” – showed […]

Is ‘Senator Bruce Carroll, (R-SC)’
The New Hotness?

by Smitty Props to Bruce Carroll: I felt it best to resign from GOProud in advance of the CPAC conference this week so that my position in GOProud would not be a distraction from my serious deliberations regarding my potential future plans in South Carolina public service. I wish only the best to my colleagues […]

British Left’s War on ‘Page Three Girls’

Since 1970, Britain’s largest-selling newspaper, The Sun tabloid, has been famous — or, as some would say, notorious — for publishing photos of topless models on page 3, so that the “Page Three Girls” have become something of a national institution. Yet now, radical feminists have mounted a campaign to ban these buxom beauties: The […]

GOP: Don’t Defend ObamaCare. Defund.

by Smitty Lo and behold, there is some chance of getting the Democrats to do their job: Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee say they hope to keep the focus during this week’s expected marathon markup on setting a sound course for the country’s fiscal future. Though such issues have dominated the national […]

‘Green on Blue’: Two U.S. Special Forces Troops Killed in Afghanistan Attack

NBC News reports from Kabul: Two U.S. service members were killed and at least eight others were injured Monday in a possible insider attack at a special forces site in Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said. The shooting occurred at a U.S. special operations outpost in Wardak province in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The […]

Obama Administration’s Top Legal ‘Experts’ Pwned by Blogger in Australia

Guest Post by “Badger Pundit.” Illustrating Glenn Reynolds’s “Army of Davids” observation about how the internet enables ordinary but competent people to beat Big Media, Big Government, and other goliaths which formerly enjoyed a near-monopoly over public policy debate even if lacking in competence, back in 2008 an American blogger, Dwight Sullivan, pwned all the […]

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