The Other McCain

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

Sources Tell Washington Post FBI Can’t Find Menendez’s Dominican Hookers

There’s a good news/bad news factor here. The good news is, the Washington Post can’t keep ignoring or downplaying the allegations: A team of FBI agents has been conducting interviews in recent weeks in the Dominican Republic and the United States, looking into allegations that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) patronized prostitutes in the Caribbean nation, […]

It’s Time to Play ‘Name That Party!’

San Diego’s former mayor, Maureen O’Connor, is a liberal Democrat. But now that she’s been charged in a massive scandal — she stole more than $2 million from a charity established by her late husband, in order to fund a decade-long gambling binge — the New York Times somehow can’t bring itself to mention her partisan affiliation. […]

Liberals Outraged Like It Was a Bad Thing for Hillary to Have Sex With Animals

Why so judgmental, Mother Jones? [A] promotional video produced last year under the supervision of Adam Brandon, executive vice president of [FreedomWorks] and a [Matt] Kibbe loyalist. The video included a scene in which a female intern wearing a panda suit simulates performing oral sex on Hillary Clinton. . . . A former FreedomWorks official […]

Obama’s Amazing Bullshit Factory

Barack Obama is to bullshit what Willy Wonka was to chocolate, and America has bought the golden ticket. Bad policy cannot be advocated by honest rhetoric. Dishonesty is therefore a hallmark of bad government. In terms of honesty, the Obama administration’s rhetoric is somewhere in the range between Baghdad Bob and North Korea.  Kirsten Powers says Tuesday’s State […]

ObamaPhone Boondoggle Update

In October 2008, I was one of the first conservative writers to call attention to the government program to provide free cell phones to the poor.  This existed before Obama became president, but has since become known as the “O-Phone” program, because recipients mistakenly believe that this is a benefit provided to them by Obama. And […]

Corrupt Thought Studies, Holder Edition

by Smitty The idea that Constitutional rights are ‘entitlements’ moves them from being constants that the government can’t touch to variables, which can be expanded or contracted by fiat. Clip below the fold for autoplay reasons.

Washington Post Reports Menendez Corruption, Downplays Jailbait Hookers

Even when they can’t find a way to avoid covering a Democrat Party scandal, they strive valiantly to retain their precious moral superiority. Front-page headine in the Washington Post: Sen. Menendez contacted top officials in friend’s Medicare dispute However, as Jeffrey Meyer points out at Newsbusters, the 43-paragraph front-page story ignores the sexual allegations against […]

Is ‘Corrupt Democrat’ Redundant?

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection reports on a congressional ethics investigation that has found “there is substantial reason to believe that Representative Owens accepted payment of travel expenses for an officially connected trip to Taiwan from an impermissible source, resulting in an impermissible gift, in violation of federal law and House Rules.” And by “substantial […]

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