The Other McCain

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

President of a Black Fear

When I glanced at Memeorandum and saw the headline, it was impossible to suppress my groaning weariness with the worn-out theme: Fear of a Black President — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2012 Show of hands: Nearly four years into the Age of Obama, is there anybody — anybody — interested in reading a 9,582-word “What It […]

Blackmail: Paradoxical As It Is Raaaaacist

by Smitty Blogs written by lawyers tend to be high-quality and thoughtful. And the legal blogs, naturally pose thoughtful legal questions. But now and again you see one that really doesn’t seem so hard. I am generally perfectly free to publish embarrassing information about you — in fact, I generally have the constitutional right to […]

Like the New York Times, But Better

Dan Riehl called me the other day to tell me he was re-launching his site with a design similar to the New York Times. The New RIEHL WORLD VIEW Is Here The new design is impressive, and Dan provides an interesting selection of headlines, including this one: Lesbian Charlie Rogers faked hate crime to advance […]

Lowry to Climate-Change Zealot: Put Your Hockey Stick Where the Sun Don’t Shine

For my money, the funniest thing in National Review editor Rich Lowry’s reply to global-warming guru Michael Mann is this: Is it too much to ask that world-renowned climate scientists spend less time on Facebook? Mann posted a number of enraged Facebook rants because his notorious “hockey stick” graph, projecting a sharp increase in global temperatures caused […]

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 08.23.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Obama’s Divide & Conquer Strategy Versus Romney’s Focus On The Economy How’s that working? Not very well, apparently. Romney’s Energy Plan: Independence By 2020 More oil & gas drilling, devolve some permitting to states Tropical Storm Isaac A Threat To GOP Convention? So far, no problem seen, but state […]

R-Money, Alpha Male

Kevin Williamson of National Review got all Darwinian about how Mitt Romney is such a dominant beast — a living expression of primal urges — and the funniest thing about it is the reaction (via Memeorandum) from a certain blogger we call Jazzy McPonytail: You’ll never see a clearer depiction of right wing values, and it’s […]

Is Elizabeth Warren Willing To Go Deeper Than ‘Diving Klaxon’ Kennedy’s ’67 Olds To Win Back ‘His’ Seat? Why, Yes.

by Smitty Via Instapundit, we have a Boston Herald editorial wherein Pseudajawea the Motorcyle Godess tries to say that, because Todd Akin (R) said Something Dumb, and all Republicans think alike, and Scott Brown is (OMG!) a Republican, that Scott Brown is liable for Todd Akin’s comments: “Scott Brown and other Republicans want to pretend […]

‘Free Speech’ Causes Syphilis

One of the brilliant — and by “brilliant,” of course, I mean evil — innovations of 1960s-era liberalism was the Supreme Court’s invention of a Constitutional protection of pornography. We scarcely can imagine what George Mason and other Founders might have said if they had been told, in 1789, that the First Amendment would be used […]

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