The Other McCain

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

Federal Bureaucracy: Doomsday Machine

by Smitty Echoing VodkaPundit’s rejection of Star Wars (I have never esteemed it above mildly entertaining space opera, myself) we’re going reaching back to Denny Crane’s old show for a metaphor to mock Politico’s risible title: “Southern governors secede from Medicaid” Wow, what an absurd headline. Really shameful. politi.co/OYZXzs — Lachlan Markay (@LachlanMarkay) July 11, […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.11.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Romney’s Wide Lead Among Independents “Red Flag” For Obama WaPo/ABC poll shows candidates tied at 47% among registered voters, Romney leading 53-39 among independents PRC Wants South China Sea Spat Off Clinton’s Agenda Rebuffs SecState’s call for discussion of tensions at ASEAN meeting Egyptian Constitutional Court Suspends Presidential Decree […]

Separated At Birth: Beckel Boy / Tommy Boy Edition

by Smitty Oh, the vagaries of fate! How the one can grow up with at least a modicum of Falstaffian humor, whereas the other couldn’t crack a joke if it was written on an eggshell and he sat on it. Take a look, courtesy of AmericanInfidel on Twitter, at Beckel Boy trying to say something, […]

The Coming Implosion of Salon.com

Iowahawk today pointed out the omens that Alex Pareene’s current employer is unlikely to survive another year: In a sign that Salon is very close to being shuttered, the company “lost” its CEO and CFO recently. . . . At the end of the final quarter of 2011, Salon had $149,000 in the bank against […]

Permit Me to Remind You: Obama Still Has More Campaign Cash Than Mitt

A fact I pointed out yesterday: [T]he Obama campaign entered June with a cash-on-hand advantage of more than $90 million ($109 million to Romney’s $17 million). And during May, Team Obama out-spent Team Mitt by nearly $30 million ($44.6 million to Romney’s $15.6 million). Keep that in mind when you read this: Senior White House adviser […]

Essay Contest Winner: ‘Why I’m Not a Democrat, in Three Words’

And those three words are, “Debbie Wasserman Schultz“: Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential […]

East Coast Opium Kingpin Alex Pareene Writes About ‘Standard-Issue Right-Wing Character Assassination’ of Kimberlin

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION Far be it from me to give credence to unsubstantiated (perhaps entirely satirical) allegations that Alex Pareene is the “East Coast kingpin of the Cambodian opium traffic,” but when I consider that Pareene credulously repeats assertions made by convicted perjurer Brett Kimberlin and the “Breitbart Unmasked” site while treating my own […]

The Columbia Journalism Review Is (Still) Depraved and Decadent

“In the context of journalism, here, we are dealing with a new kind of ‘lead’ — the Symbiotic Trapezoid Quote. The Columbia Journalism Review will never sanction it; at least not until the current editor dies of brain syphilis, and probably not even then. “What? “Do we have a libel suit on our hands? “Probably not, […]

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