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

‘MalaysiaGate’ Update: Still More Questions Than Answers (So Far)

Since I raised questions about progressive blogger/consultant Jerome Armstrong’s role in MalaysiaGate, a few sources have started to supply helpful information and background. Frankly, I was shocked when former Raw Story editor Ron Brynaert — certainly no ally of the Right, nor previously a friend to me — started Tweeting to me his own research into […]

How Much Cash Did Jerome Armstrong Collect in the ‘MalaysiaGate’ Operation?

Cashing in and Crashing the Gate: Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong sign their book, April 2006 “At 1:11 AM, Monday March 21st, Bush signed into law an order that vacates the state of Florida from having jurisdiction over the case involving Terri Schiavo. Of course, Mercury is retrograde, so at first indication, it’s unlikely that […]

Who Andrew Breitbart Was

P.J. O’Rourke encounters Andrew Breitbart at the Manchester, N.H., Radisson Bar, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 In May 2007, I interviewed Andrew Breitbart while he was working — doing his shift as an editor at the Drudge Report — at the D.C. offices of Reason magazine, and described how he worked and why he did it: His […]

Memo From the Lunatic Fringe: LGF Attacking ‘Anchor Baby Malkin’

Diary of Daedalus shows that a Little Green Footballs commenter got 11 “updings” for this insightful offering: More fake outrage against our First Lady: Anchor Baby Malkin fails miserably at attempting to mock the First Lady’s “Evolution of Mom Dancing.” The Obama Derangement Syndrome is more dangerous than syphilis. Here is the video that inspired the LGF comment: […]

Bill Schmalfeldt Praises Kimberlin for ‘Social Justice,’ Then Deletes Tweet

Today there was a peace order hearing in Maryland in the matter of Bill Schmalfeldt v. John Hoge, which Aaron Walker describes briefly, with the interesting news that Brett Kimberlin showed up for the hearing. Schmalfeldt gushed on Twitter that the “high point” of his day was meeting Kimberlin: “I don’t care what he did in the past. […]

Shorter Wonkette: Butt-Sex Jokes Are Only Funny When Liberals Tell Them

“The daughter of liberal academics from Lincoln, Neb., Ms. Cox moved to Washington from New York in May 2000 with her husband, Chris Lehmann, an editor at The Washington Post Book World. She was writing her own satirical blog, theanticmuse.com, after bouncing from editing jobs at The Chronicle of Higher Education, America Online and National […]

School Officials Helping Spread Sequestration Political Message

The Lonely Conservative relays the e-mail message sent by her child’s school principal: Act to STOP Sequestration now Take Action! Our students deserve the best education Without action, sequestration cuts will take place THIS Friday, March 1. It is anticipated that the cuts to education and other domestic programs will be 5.3 percent, and will […]

One Million Moms, Combined, Doesn’t Add Up To A Single Sense Of Humor

by Smitty This GEICO ad is nowhere near as vulgar as the recent Onion dustup: The joke, like good saucy humor, is served up incomplete. You have to want to view the actress as doing more than serving a stereotype for there to be substantial naughtiness going on here. Furthermore, it’s a good teaching opportunity. […]

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