The Other McCain

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

He’s Got His. Have You Got Yours?

A sad bit of bitter irony: While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it’s at 16.2 percent African Americans, and a bit higher still for African American males. . . . [N]ow it’s at Depression-era levels. The most recent figures show African American joblessness at 16.2 percent. For black males, it’s at […]

Consider the Source

Wes Pruden would have ripped my hide off — this, I freely admit. You don’t hang a story on a single source, especially if that source is anonymous. My old boss at The Washington Times would never in a million years have authorized a story like the two-sentence item I published Friday on The American […]

Fake Twitter Girls?

Friday, Jennifer Preston at the New York Times had an intriguing story about the “Betty and Veronica” sideshow of WeinerGate. I was up to my neck in Right Online at the time, and so didn’t get around to blogging about it Friday, but to those of us who followed WeinerGate in-depth from Day One, this is […]

‘The Problem … Is That Thomas Doesn’t Care What the New York Times Thinks’

Those are some of Professor Glenn Reynolds’ thoughts on exactly why the editors of the New York Times would assign a reporter to do a 2,700-word hit piece on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Twenty-seven-hundred words. That’s four times the length of a typical news story, and the piece essentially re-hashes a Democratic Party talking […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.20.11

TOP NEWS House To Vote This Week On Libya Funding House strikes back against President’s violation of War Powers Act, aims to cut funds; unlikely alliances form for, against measure McCain chides GOP for isolationism Winds Challenge Crews Struggling To Contain Arizona/New Mexico Fires Over half a million acres burned in Arizona alone Alyssa Campanella […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Do It Again

New this week to Rule 5 Sunday is the Argentinian blogger Opinador Compulsivo, who dedicates this NSFW Rule 5 Gallery to Soylent Green and Stacy McCain. All hail the spread of Rule 5 to America del Sur! Randy’s Roundtable has two links for us this week, one for Thursday and one for Wednesday. Eye of […]

On The CC Line

by Smitty Check out the new collaboration of two of my favorite bloggers, Little Miss Attila and POWIP. They call it Conservative Commune. I admit the second word has more appeal as an imperative verb than as a noun, but I admire the two so much as writers that I’ll just blogroll them and subscribe […]

Fear and Loathing at Right Online

MINNEAPOLIS Three obese women are sitting on the other side of the cocktail table in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel where I’m writing this. They are not only obese, they also have iPhones, and are checking their messages while chatting about nonsense of no relevance to the serious political events that have transpired during […]

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