The Other McCain

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

GOP Debate at Simi Valley, California

9:49 p.m. ET: And it’s over! Let the spin begin. If you’re watching this on MSNBC, you’ll get to see Rachel Maddow hosting the post-debate show with Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton and Lawrence O’Donnell. I think I’ll skip it myself. 9:47 p.m. ET: Brian Williams references LBJ in asking a question of Ron […]

Al Gore: A Bigger Idiot Than Obama

Read this sentence: On Friday afternoon, as brave and committed activists continued their non-violent civil disobedience outside the White House in protest of the tar sands pipeline that would lead to a massive increase in global warming pollution, President Obama ordered the EPA to abandon its pursuit of new curbs on emissions that worsens disease-causing […]

Stimulus; Ground Zero; ObamaCare

by Smitty Stimulus; Ground Zero; ObamaCare: resist we much. I love the sound of plaintive Progressive attempts at dialogue shaping in the morning. It sounds either like . . . victory, or that crunchy note struck by a fat bug impacting a windshield on a vehicle at speed. Via Insty, this Forbes article on our societal […]

Not Enough

by Smitty Another day, another tantrum from somebody who may be lacking in the nerve department. Sarah Palin must do X, or I’m going to post Y.  I’m supporting candidate Z, and I’m really tired of questioning Sarah Palin’s actions, because her supporters are really mean, and they roughed me up in the comments and […]

New From Ladd Ehlinger: Hitchhiker’s Guide To Freedom

by Smitty Narrator: Once Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the Roman Republic was finished. What little Liberty mankind had secured vanished. Children: Aww! Narrator: Not until the United States of America, nearly two millennia later, did humanity recover with a golden age of freedom. Children: Yay! Narrator: Sadly, as far as we can determine from surviving […]

Yet Another Failure by Rick Perry (And Notes on the Carter-ization of Obama)

“The simplest way to define conservatism is this: The belief that liberalism is wrong.” — Robert Stacy McCain, June 15, 2009 The Texas governor has failed to eradicate the few remaining “pockets” of Democrat Party “enthusiasm” in the Lone Star State, according to liberal Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress: I’m prepared to say that I […]

The ‘Stache Is Dashed

by Smitty Costa at the NRO relays the news that John Bolton has declined to run for POTUS in 2012. To my way of thinking, this positions him for Secretary of State.

What’s the Matter With Kansas?

Nothing at all, as evidenced by these billboards Dan Blatt saw on I-70 near Fort Riley: SCOAMF. IYKWIMAKITYD.

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