The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 07.11.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS President, Lawmakers To Meet again As Press Pressure Builds For A Deal Boehner, House GOP still adamant on not increasing taxes One Hundred Dead In Volga River Cruise Ship Disaster Overloaded Bulgaria goes down fifty miles from Khazan Train Crashes Kill 65 In India, Injure More than 200 Separate […]

How to Be the Best Dad Ever

It’s not nearly as hard as you might think. This afternoon a friend asked me to blog about some urgent political news, to which request I replied: “Remind me to talk to you some time when I’m not in a black pit of depression.”

Rule 5 Sunday: Secret

Fishersville Mike kicks off this week’s Rule 5 linkagery with a look back to the 1999 women’s soccer team, while  Eye of Polyphemus fixes his attention on Olivia Wilde. The POH Diaries offer the Duchess of Cambridge and a side order of links; Randy’s Roundtable this week goes with Kate Upton and Caitlin Manley, while […]

Note To The “Born This Way” Community

by Smitty Pardon me for two links to Colmes in one day, but T-Paw is under fire for questioning the Progressive Orthodoxy that sexual preference is hardwired. My question is: how do you handle the freewill/destiny question? It seems that the “Born this way” approach becomes a slippery slope argument, dropping you into a mechanistic […]

EU President Van Rompuy Continues Playing Whack-A-Mole, When Whack-A-Budget Is Needed

by Smitty (h/t Memorandum via Google Reader) Reuters reports: European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region’s third largest economy. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will attend […]

FMJRA 2.0: Crisis King

CA-36: GAME-CHANGER! L.A. Station’s Report Destroys Democrat Janice Hahn Da Tech Guy Don Surber The Camp Of The Saints The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative Instapundit American Glob Countenance Blog The NeoSexist Conservative Commune Protein Wisdom Bits’ Blog From The Desk Of Lady Liberty Adelie Manchot Rebecca Watson: ‘Stop Sexualizing Me!’ Five Feet of Fury […]

From the Undeceived to the Rube: My Second Notice of Your Previous Insult

It’s come to this: Not content to insult our intelligence by claiming that her vote for Obama in 2008 was a “rational choice,” now Ann Althouse has sown discord between Smitty and me, distracting me from important issues — there has been another royal upskirt incident that regular readers would normally expect me to cover in comprehensive detail […]

Allen West Continues To Answer The Question ‘What If BHO Was A Leader?’

by Smitty (h/t Lucianne) As reported in the Daily Caller Appearing on Nashville radio host Steve Gill’s show last week, West said Obama would be “complicit” with what he sees as Justice Department attempts to slow down and avoid a congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious and Project Gunrunner if he didn’t push his […]

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