The Other McCain

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

We Need to Tone Down the Rhetoric

Otherwise, all this extremist talk about “choice” and “women’s rights” might lead to mass murder:  A massacre perpetrated by a deranged man is not about the deranged man; it’s about “rhetoric.” But a massacre perpetrated by an abortion provider whose violations against laws of the nation and of humanity were overlooked for years is “not […]

Feminism Is to Honest Debate What Kermit Gosnell Is to Humanitarianism

Which is to say, its antithesis: I think we’re all pretty well agreed that if the charges against Kermit Gosnell are true, then dude is a criminal and needs to go to jail. Killing a baby after it’s born and has taken breaths? Is not abortion. It should be, and is, a crime punishable by […]

‘The Most Bald-Faced Lie I Have Ever Read in the New York Times’

“And that’s saying something,” says Ann Coulter: [T]hat paper implied Loughner is a pro-life zealot. This is the precise opposite of the truth. . . . ABC News reported: “One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act ‘wildly inappropriate.’ “‘One day […]

Jared Loughner: Beta Male

No doubt about it, if this guy hadn’t become a mass-murderer, he would have been a blog troll: A trove of 131 online-forum postings written between April and June 2010 . . . provides insight into Mr. Loughner’s mind-set in the year leading up to Saturday’s shootings in Tucson . . . The online postings […]

Drew M. Nails It

“If Captain Honors goes down for this, expect some guys with stars on their shoulders to take a hit as well . . . “If Honors is relieved . . . you have to wonder if the top brass of the Navy really get that we are a nation that has been at war for […]

‘I Feel Like I Just Found Out I’ve Been Living on the Moon’

So says a progressive feminist, in agreeing with Ace of Spades’ take on the Julian Assange rape accusations, as described in an Australian newspaper account: She says they had consensual sex but she woke up the next morning to find him having intercourse with her to which she had not consented. When she asked him if he […]

Media Headwinds, Media Tailwinds

Ace of Spades describes a basic truth of American politics: The liberal media sells liberal candidates as brilliant and even-tempered and “sophisticated” and “nuanced” of thought; all of these are non-ideological attributes which appeal to most, whatever one’s politics. And they need to do this, as only about 25% of the country can be persuaded […]

In Which Ace of Spades Notices the Big Tax ‘Compromise’ Is Greased With Pork

“Obama needs this deal as much as the Republicans want it. We do not have to play the shakedown game and pay him off in billions to get him to do what he is already forced to do.” — Ace of Spades, “The Porky Tax Deal” This is kinda like the moment at which a […]

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