The Other McCain

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

Creeptastic News of the Day

Sitting here in my home office with the cable TV news playing in the background, I occasionally overhear summaries of stories that have nothing to do with politics, but which are nonetheless interesting as news. The case of Utah mother Susan Powell’s disappearance has been much-discussed today. This would be just another one of those “Perils of […]

I’ll Give You Three Reasons, Ann

by Smitty I’ve never understood why people who don’t trust convictions agonize over the death penalty but blandly accept life imprisonment. The bleeding hearts are compensating for their guilt over supporting the butchery of the unborn by piously bleating against the death penalty. The Iron Law is served by bloated legal bureaucracies surrounding the death […]

The Death of a Cop-Killer

I haven’t blogged about last night’s execution of convicted Georgia cop-killer Troy Davis, in part because Ann Coulter and Ace of Spades already said pretty much what needed to be said. There isn’t really any need for me to dogpile the story except to observe that, even if you have doubts about the death penalty in general, executing cop-killers […]

AFL-CIO’s Trumka Uses 9/11 Anniversary to Bash Talk Radio, ‘Extremists,’ Wealthy

Big Labor’s No. 1 honcho posts a message, “Sept. 11, 2011: A Day to Commit to Activism“: There is no time in my memory of a more proud example of what we can accomplish when we work together. Solidarity, the cornerstone of the union movement, flowed through all of us and carried us through. But […]

SCOAMF Scandal: Investigation of Obama’s Solyndra Cronies Continues

Big trouble with Obama’s “green energy” scam buddies: Federal agents have expanded their examination of the now-bankrupt California solar power company Solyndra, searching the homes of the company’s CEO and two of its executives, examining computer files and documents, iWatch News and ABC News have learned. Agents visited the homes of CEO Brian Harrison and […]

Pro-Pedophile Group Piggybacks on ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’

“[T]herapeutic morality encourages a permanent suspension of the moral sense. There is a close connection, in turn, between the erosion of moral responsibility and the waning capacity for self-help . . . between the elimination of culpability and the elimination of competence.” — Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of […]

Former Playmate Sentenced to Prison for Shooting Her Husband and Starring in ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’

Mainly it was shooting her husband: Former Playboy Playmate Victoria Rathgeb has been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading no contest to the involuntary manslaughter of her husband, RadarOnline.com has learned. The 66-year-old ex-glamour model admitted that she shot her husband of 25 years, Bruce Rathgeb, in the back at their West Hollywood […]

‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Money Man Accused in Insurance Fraud Scheme

Hisham Elzanaty A story you will never see covered on the nightly network news: Allstate has become the latest insurance company to accuse Hisham Elzanaty, one of the money men behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque development, of orchestrating a “highly developed and sophisticated kickback scheme” that allegedly reaped more than $5 million for Elzanaty […]

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