The Other McCain

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

The Tea Party is Over: @Allahpundit and Mitch McConnell Declare Victory

It’s “Spring Time for Mitch” over there at RINOville: Politico has a pre-election postmortem on how McConnell beat back the tea party, although most of it will be familiar to you if you’ve been following the race even casually. . . . Between McConnell’s easy ride to victory and Lindsey Graham’s trouble-free reelection campaign in South Carolina thus far, […]

Not Saying It Was Aliens…

— compiled by Wombat-socho …which I guess could be construed as sort of a spoiler for John Barnes’ disappointing The Last President, which is the last of the Daybreak novels. I hated this novel for at least a dozen reasons, not the least of which is that Barnes pulls a diavolo ex machina out of […]

The Libyan Disaster

Obama’s “Arab Spring” continues unraveling: The revolt by Gen. Khalifa Hifter threatens to detonate the long volatile divisions among the multiple militias that dominate Libya amid the weakness of the central government and military. Hifter says he aims to crush Islamists he accuses of seizing control of the country and he appears to have the […]

Dinesh D’Souza Pleads Guilty

The conservative intellectual committed a particularly clumsy crime — an ill-disguised straw-donor scheme that violated federal campaign finance law — in an inexplicable attempt to aid a Republican candidate who never had a real chance to win. Whether or not Dinesh D’Souza was a target of selective prosecution, he was nonetheless guilty, and has now […]

Fremdschämen For Towson U.

by Smitty Fremdschämen is when you watch someone else beclown themselves in a shameful way, yet express no awareness of their own debasement. See also LEO. College Wins US Debate Championship By Repeating the [bigger digger trigger] Over and Over, Speaking Incomprehensibly To paraphrase The Sage, a house with its head in a lightless location […]

Sweet Revenge: @SarahPalinUSA on the Media’s Hillary Double Standard

The ironic payback for Trig Trutherism: Now that liberals want to protect Hillary Clinton from scrutiny and criticism — especially questions about the 66-year-old former Secretary of State’s health — Sarah Palin is there to remind the media of how they treated her: Hey! Hillary’s brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are […]

The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda

So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferences” — upscale corporate-sponsored events for career women — and Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ Amanda Marcotte has “mixed feelings,” because “corporate sponsors have a way of quietly refocusing these kinds of conferences away from the nitty-gritty issues that face ordinary American women and toward […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.20.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Army Declares Martial Law In Thailand Army chief says it’s not a coup Narendra Modi Elected Parliamentary Head Of BJP The BJP Landslide: Party takes 282 seats in Lok Sabha for an outright majority PRC Warns US Cyber Charges Could Damage Ties Pro forma protests of symbolic indictments? POLITICS […]

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