The Other McCain

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

Chuck DeVore Responds To Sarah’s Endorsement Of Carly

by Smitty Dan Riehl was grim on the topic: . . .on the heels of her misguided Rand Paul endorsement, now Palin backs Fiorina in California. Chuck DeVore is the conservative in the race. That’s two endorsements she shouldn’t have made, as they hurt her brand, as much as they may help the candidate. I […]

Progressive Feminist Amanda Marcotte Is OK With Female Genital Mutilation

You can’t make this stuff up: Wow, I rarely find myself disagreeing with PZ, Melissa, and Samhita, but I have to say that I don’t really see the problem with the American Academy of Pediatrics advising doctors to offer a “ritual nick” in lieu of the more serious forms of female circumcision that are often […]

Barack Obama: Neo-Confederate?

The one element of the Confederate Constitution that is generally praised by historians was its provision of the line-item veto, a power that our progressive POTUS now craves: President Obama, in his latest effort to signal fiscal responsibility against the rising debt, plans this month to ask Congress to give him and future presidents greater power to try to […]

Wisconsin 7: It Looks Like Duffy Is Packin’ The Gear

by Smitty Kathryn Jean Lopez notes: Rachel Campos-Duffy was a cast member on MTV’s The Real World. She actually brought Paul Ryan and Empower America to The Real World, believe it or not. But her starring role right now is as a young mom of six and wife of Sean Duffy Follow to the NRO […]

Alaina Podmorow Is To Laura Sjoberg As Joe The Plumber Is To Obama

by Smitty American Power takes National Offend A Feminist Week quite seriously, relating an incident wherein he quoted Alaina Podmorow, a 13 year old Afghan girl actually supporting the cause of oppressed young women. Laura Sjoberg, like any ivory tower authoritarian or Barack Obama, is having none of this. This is not to take anything […]

OMG! Calling Michelle Malkin! Kindergarten Girls Gone Wild?

RicketyClick responded to National Offend a Feminist Week by asking where’s the feminist outrage over this video of little girls in skimpy outfits dancing to Beyonce’s “Single Lady.” Any attempt to describe this creepazoid video fails due to the inadequacy of language. A few of the more printable YouTube comments: “The parents should be hanged by their thumbs.” “Holy s—. What the […]

10th Amendment Task Force

Connie Hair at Human Events reports: On Thursday a group of House conservatives from the Republican Study Committee (RSC) announced the launch of the 10th Amendment Task Force — a project of the RSC — designed as a means for legislators to change tactics on downsizing the leviathan federal government. With an eye toward November […]

Austerity Measures Cause Unrest

No, I’m not talking about the riots in Greece. I’m talking about what economic analysts call an unexpected near-term budgetary shortfall at the Other McCain household. The “unrest” is Mrs. Other McCain’s concern about unpaid bills.  The IMF isn’t going to bail me out and, unlike the Greek parliament, I don’t have a riot squad to protect […]

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