The Other McCain

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

‘Floating Out There in the Journalistic Ether’

Jack Shafer of Slate attempts to make sense of New York Times columnist Frank Rich’s departure for New York magazine: Let me see if I’ve got this straight: Frank Rich is leaving a weekly column at the nation’s most important daily newspaper for a monthly column at the second best weekly in the country. If […]

Mob Rules: Wisconsin Protesters Swarm GOP Legislator, Scream ‘Shame! Shame!’

Via Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit; more at Michelle Malkin and Hot Air: If this is what “civility” is supposed to look like . . .

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.02.11

TOP NEWS House Passes Spending Bill, Avoiding Shutdown Stopgap spending bill passes 355-91, includes $4 billion in spending cuts Gaddafi Defiant As West Flexes Military Muscle USS Kearsarge and Ponce redeploy to the Med; US, NATO discussing no-fly zone Khadafy Musters Show Of Strength In Tripoli UN Suspends Libya From Human Rights Council Crisis in […]

Clearing the Browser Tabs Tuesday

Borrowing Jimmie Bise’s term for “Stuff I Really Meant to Blog About Today, But Didn’t Get Around to Actually Blogging”: Charlie Sheen — I’d given Charlie a good going-over Monday, and didn’t feel like going over him again. Maggie’s Notebook has more. Sheen-blogging can be addictive, and there’s just so much there to work with. Charlie […]

Report: Obama Smashed the Tea Party Through a Plate-Glass Window

“What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live […]

A Beatles Lyric Comes to Mind

“Well, she was just 17, you know what I mean …” It takes on a completely different connotation if you think of it in terms of front-page headlines: Prince Andrew risks losing ambassador job as girl in underage sex case reveals meeting him — Daily Mail The lads on Fleet Street know how to play a […]

Jane Russell, R.I.P.

The passing of Hollywood screen legend Jane Russell reminds us that nowadays everything is political. When someone famous dies, we can’t be permitted merely to remember the person’s life and work. No, the celebrity must be placed in political context, for how else shall we know whether to remember them fondly or not? Turning dead people into […]

Bye-Bye, Bardella

For reasons previously explained, the press secretary for Rep. Darrell Issa was in an untenable position and has now been fired for it: House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) fired Kurt Bardella, one of Capitol Hill’s top press secretaries, after he provided e-mailed correspondence with other journalists to New York Times reporter […]

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