The Other McCain

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

Homo Bureaucratus Is The Problem

by Smitty Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.–Lord Acton Over time, even petty amounts of power bring out the Nixon in all of us. Via Instapundit, Mark Fiztgibbons writes: In America’s first 100 years, federal officials could be sued in state courts for acting beyond their authority. In his book Creating the […]

Think Of The U.S. As Walmart, And Nancy Pelosi As A Demented Greeter

by Smitty Botox Barbie puts a cosmetically crafted smile on matters: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country. The California Democrat will also meet with a group of children […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.27.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Partition Not Seen As Cure For Iraq Shiite Imam al-Sadr Issues Warning To ISIS Jihadis Shiite leaders push for PM al-Maliki’s resignation Kerry Challenges Putin To Prove He’s For Peace In Ukraine :facepalm: Supremes Strike Down Massachusetts Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones Infringes on pro-life protesters’ 1st Amendment rights POLITICS […]

Media Bias and Women With Penises

“I am willing to wager that Molly Ball has never once applied the terms ‘extreme’ or ‘fringe’ to any contingent of the Democrat Party coalition. . . . No matter how far off into Crazyland a leftist may wander, so long as he or she continues to support the Democrat Party, no liberal journalist will ever […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.26.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Iraq’s Al-Maliki Tells US To Get Stuffed Rejects Kerry’s calls for unity government Russia Renounces Right To Send Troops Into Ukraine West demands end to fighting Supremes Uphold Cell Phone Privacy Court requires police to get a warrant before rumbling mobiles POLITICS E-Mails Show Lerner Wanted IRS To Audit […]

Yalie Aspires to ‘Change … What Heterosexual Sex Looks Like’

Alexandra Brodsky (@azbrodsky) writes a lot about rape: When someone attempted to rape me my freshman year, I asked my college, Yale University, for help, but instead I was basically advised to keep quiet. I shouldn’t formally report the assault, I was told. Despite my clear and repeated “no”, school administrators cast the whole event […]

Your Feminist Future

#YesAllWomen can become crazy cat ladies! A Wisconsin woman who was charged with stealing back 15 cats from the Humane Society was arrested for violating the conditions of her bond. Lee Ann Shore, 46, was arrested last month after she allegedly broke into the Coulee Region Humane Society in Onalaska, Wis. to get cats that […]

GOP Establishment Turns Out Democrat Voters to Defeat Conservative Candidate

Remember that headline, bookmark this page and circle June 24 on your calendar, because the result of Tuesday’s primary runoff in Mississippi was an ill omen that portends Republican defeat in November. Check back here on Wednesday, Nov. 5, to see if my helpless sense of dark foreboding doom is correct, but today it seems obvious: […]

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