The Other McCain

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

Michele Bachmann Boogies!

Will this cost her the Baptist vote? Shane Vander Hart has more of Bachmann’s Des Moines Tea Party rally. I hadn’t realized, or perhaps didn’t remember, that Shane lives in Iowa. (Note to self: Apply for sofa-crashing privileges.)

FMJRA 2.0: Light & Magic

The Beast of Babylon Wears Bangs: Amanda Marcotte’s ‘Pure Feminist Evil’ Dustbury The NeoSexist Haemet Pirates Cove Little Miss Attila Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology That Mr. G Guy Ed Driscoll Anti-Misandry Right Wing News Dude. The Macho Response Instapundit Soylent Green Inoperable Terran Don Surber The Camp Of The Saints Proof Positive Rule 5 Sunday: Just Another […]

The 7 Millionth Hit Approaches

The SiteMeter total this morning was nearing 6,990,000 visits, meaning that we are now within 10,000 hits of the 7-million mark. As we are currently averaging more than 8,000 hits a day, we should cross this traffic threshold tomorrow, the 4th of July, which seems entirely appropriate. Incidentally, we set a new record for monthly traffic in […]

Ghouls for Ginsberg?

Jason at RightKlik recoils at the liberal ghoulishness: Apparently apropos of nothing in particular, the New York Times has now started the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Death Watch™ . . .

John Cornyn Endorses Obama on Taxes

No sooner had I urged Republicans to call out President Obama for his “tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires” rhetoric than Texas Sen. John Cornyn goes squish: Texas Sen. John Cornyn this morning laid out a political blueprint for comprehensive tax reform, declaring that he favors raising taxes on some American businesses by closing corporate […]

Letter To An Anonymous Blogger

by Smitty The shiny new blog Political Clown Parade is a welcome addition to the dextrosphere. Check this excellent bit of Thaddeus McCotter juxtaposed with The Gipper: Blogging is a rush, but you can’t have peaks without valleys. We are all members of the chorus of self-government. We succeed or fail insofar as we show […]

How Fannie and Freddie Screwed Over Taxpayers and Wrecked the Economy

Amazing to see this on PBS: UPDATE: Linked by The Lonely Conservative and Dan Collins at The Conservatory — thanks! Meanwhile, reviewing Reckless Endangerment at Barron’s, Gene Epstein writes: It starts at the beginning — in 1991, when Jim Johnson, a political operative and former top aide to Sen. Walter Mondale, took over as Fannie […]

Why Doesn’t Obama Come Right Out and Say, ‘Democrats Want to Raise Taxes’?

There is a cynical saying among political strategists on Capitol Hill: “Do we want the bill or do we want the issue”? That is to say, is it to our advantage to pass legislation to address a specific issue, or is it to our advantage to keep the issue alive as a controversy going into […]

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