The Other McCain

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

S.C. GOP 2012 Presidential Debate UPDATE: HERMAN CAIN WINS!

UPDATE: “Hands down winner” says Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, who provides this video of the soon-to-be-famous Frank Luntz focus group on Fox News: “We can stop right there!” UPDATE — MIDNIGHT: Just got off the phone with Mr. Cain. “At least a few people know who I am now,” he said, laughing. I asked […]

Bubble Bursts? Wall Street Tumbles, as Silver Prices Slump on Margin Hike

DJIA . . . . . . 12,584.17 –139.41 (-1.10%) S&P . . . . . . 1,335.10   –12.22 (-0.91%) NASDAQ . . . 2,814.72  –13.51 (-0.48%) The headline this morning was another one of those “unexpected” bits of bad economic news: Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Jump Due to Anomalies What’s up with that? […]

Obama at Ground Zero

Big, big story here. Have you hit the tip jar for the “Get Well Fund” yet? UPDATE: A nice nap. Thanks to Betty in New Jersey, Mary Rose in Ohio, James in South Plainfield, Mitzi in Dallas, and Rebecca in Indiana for hitting the tip jar. Woke up to some very interesting news: Economic Anxiety […]

Let Me Generalize Mr. Rumsfeld

by Smitty Ace has a Ace has a Donald Rumsfeld post: “You Know, When You Discover An ‘Intelligence Jackpot,’ It’s Probably Best Not To Tell People You’ve Discovered an Intelligence Jackpot.” This is a crucial point that has come home to me while doing various things here in the graveyard of empires: Civil law is […]

Death Porn Is Not The Answer

by Smitty Pardon the similar post to what Stacy just published, but all this panties-abunch noise in the dextrosphere is false. Bin Laden, while diabolical, is now dead. All of this fretting over the internals of the decision making of the operation is bollocks. Time spent fretting this is time unspent on the EPA, DOJ, […]

Arianna Huffington Offers Exciting New Opportunities for You to Blog for Free!

She should call it TheUnmitigatedGall.com: Today we launch a great new chapter for Patch.com, AOL’s national network of hyperlocal sites currently covering community life in over 800 towns across America. . . . Patch will provide an unprecedented infrastructure for citizen engagement in time for the 2012 presidential election, with a focus on community and […]

Gerrymandering: Boring, Yet Important

by Smitty Over at Pajamas Media, Robert Zubrin touches on an important topic: The degree of contrivance behind the design of a set of districts is directly related to the oddness of the shapes employed to reach the election-rigging objective. There is a precise mathematical way to measure such malformation. That is, if you take […]

Bin Laden Dead; Liberal Media Sick

The contradictory impulses stirred by the death of Osama bin Laden have sent the Left and their media friends stumbling into absurdity. Do you remember how we were told that the election of President Obama would restore U.S. international prestige and make the world love us? Tell that to the Pakistanis: A senior Pakistani intelligence […]

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