The Other McCain

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

Celebrities in the Culture War

Famous weirdos in the news: Post-baby heartbreak. Just five weeks after giving birth to daughter Alijah, Kendra Wilkinson was forced to face a bitter, shocking truth: As rumored, husband Hank Baskett had indeed cheated with a transgender YouTube model named Ava Sabrina London. As revealed in the new issue of Us Weekly, out now, former […]

Ace, Hayek, Hoffer, Sowell

A few months ago, Ace of Spades pissed me off — entirely by accident, I’m sure — when he recommended Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book that I have been recommending for years. (In 2003, I actually wrote Neil Postman’s obituary in a freelance article for the Guardian.) Of course, there was no […]

The Mississippi Scandal

Charles C. Johnson’s interview with Rev. Stevie Fielder, a pastor who says he participated in an illegal vote-buying scheme during the Mississippi Senate campaign, was lighting up Twitter last night. Aaron Gardner at Red State provides transcripts of much of the interview. Rev. Fielder provides text messages which appear to confirm that a staffer on […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.01.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Iraqi Parliament Meets To Choose New Government “Things are bad. The political process is not commensurate with the speed of military developments.” India Scrambles To Pull Citizens From Iraq Government Motors Recalls Another Seven Million Vehicles Some dating back to 1997 Ukraine’s Poroshenko Ends Ceasefire Ukraine forces to go […]

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