The Other McCain

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

Call Me A Literalist

by Smitty However, this blog will echo CNSNews in calling foul about the tweaking of the Constitution that’s gone on at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Your tax dollars have been spent so that some Progressive could elide crucial bits of text: The full text of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 says: “The Congress […]

Say Hello to Liberty.com!

A right-wing MoveOn.org? On Wednesday, September 1, 2010, a key organizer in the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party and “Don’t Go” movement pioneer Eric Odom will join a national coalition of conservative movement activists in launching Liberty.com, a right-of-center news and national activism website with the intention of eclipsing the left’s Moveon.org. “For years, Moveon.org […]

Ann Coulter to WND: ‘I Speak at Harvard and I Certainly Don’t Endorse Their Views’

The news that Ann Coulter would headline next month’s “Homocon,” a conference of gay Republicans in New York, has caused her to be dropped as a speaker at WorldNetDaily’s “Take Back America” conference: “Ultimately, as a matter of principle, it would not make sense for us to have Ann speak to a conference about ‘taking America back’ […]

News Flash: Politics Is About Elections

It shouldn’t be necessary to say this in a crucial mid-term election year, but I have been troubled to find that it’s difficult to get conservatives to concentrate on supporting individual candidates in actual elections. When I spent three weeks covering Tim Burns in the PA-12 special election, traffic to the blog actually went down. That was discouraging. Everybody’s always […]

Florida Democrats Think This Allen West Video Will Help Ron Klein

The Florida Democratic Party has created an attack Web site called “The Real Allen West” — which showed up here via an Adsense rotation — featuring this video: Isn’t that great? Ron Klein has gone from ignoring Allen West to trying to convince people that the Republican is some kind of dangerous radical. In other […]

Nancy Pelosi: Don’t Investigate Ground Zero Mosque, Investigate Opponents

Via Larry O’Connor at Breitbart.TV: “There is no question there is a concerted effort to make [the Ground Zero Mosque] a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded.” — Nancy Pelosi Kerry Picket of The Washington Times: Calls to […]

Pacific Ocean Wants To Sue Gulf Of Mexico For Limelight Thuggery

by Smitty Seth Borenstein, in Salon reports that we still have plenty of oil to fear in the Gulf: The evidence of microscopic amounts of oil mixing into the soil of the canyon was gathered by scientists at the University of South Florida, who also found poisoned plant plankton — the vital base of the […]

Is The Government My Shepherd?

by Smitty Via Insty, John Samples at Cato says “They Should Earn Our Trust“. He concludes that these signs of distrust “point toward a widely shared conviction that the country’s public and private leadership is protecting its own interest at the expense of average (and even comfortable) Americans.” Via HotAir Gene Healy at the Examiner […]

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