The Other McCain

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

California Liberals to Latino Small Business Owners: ‘No Way, José!’

Liberals love Latinos, right? Except in California. Except when the Latinos in question are small business owners who sell tacos from food trucks. Steven Greenhut explains at Reason magazine: Desperate for cash, state officials now make unrealistic estimates of their sales and employ heavy-handed tactics, they explain. To make matters worse, the truck owners say that […]

The Mark Hamill Who Thinks Romney Isn’t Human. . .

by Smitty . . .is that this Mark Hamill? Because if it is, then, Mark: you need to lay by your dish, dude. *cough*metrosexual*cough*

‘Occupy vs. Tea Party’ — How You Can Help Make This Project Happen!

Reported at the Blaze: “Occupy VS. Tea Party” is the brainchild of producer/author/musician Gordon G.G. Gebert. Gordon hopes to fund the pilot for his show and get it on air (or the Internet) before the November election. He has chosen the web to raise funds to cover the initial production costs. Using Kickstarter, Gebert hopes […]

Rewarding Failure, Punishing Success

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is in many ways too radical — with dangerous overtones of Nietzsche — but clearly enunciates certain basic insights. In one of her characters’ monologues, Rand expresses the fundamental problem with the Marxist maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” What’s wrong with that? It […]

Because Liars Hate Truth

Neal Rauhauser was a speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference “Facts don’t matter, that’s the perception of the situation, and the world is going to act on that basis.” — Neal Rauhauser, “Gaped Crusader,” Nov. 26, 2011 “Neal’s antics were sufficiently disturbing enough to result in a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. What the psychiatrist found […]

Zany Breitbart.com, Thinking That The Days Of Legal Consistency Remain

by Smitty Joel Pollack over at Breitbart.com writes as though there is one set of rules that everyone has to play by. As though subpoena-free attacks against Mitt Romney should receive the same scrutiny as, say, that little horse-trade that occurred over Snarlin’ Arlen switching parties to support ObamaCareTax: Specter evidently expected to be repaid […]

Thursday Is Mary Jo Kopechne Day; Would Government Health Care Have Been A Good Investment For Her?

by Smitty Roughly three weeks shy of 343 years to the day after ersatz naval architect Ted Kennedy proved conclusively that a ’67 Olds does not a submarine make, but with the right name you can still be the Lyin’ of the Senate, the PPACA decision arrived, in a flurry of prestidigitation that defies reasonable […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.17.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Business Groups Hit Obama On Remarks About Government’s Role Chamber of Commerce, NFIB not happy with President’s Fauxcahontas tone Court-Martial Begins For Lackland AFB Sex Scandal Instructor charged with 28 counts of rape, sexual assault Syrian Rebels Push War Into Damascus UN still going in circles POLITICS Romney Shows […]

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