The Other McCain

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

23 Million Reasons to Ignore Big Bird

With the polls beginning to indicate a sudden meltdown in the president’s support, the Obama campaign has nothing to offer now except ridiculous distractions about Muppets. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney keeps focused on the important issues of this election: “About 23 million Americans, still looking for a good job. You’ve got college graduates this year, came out last […]

@Gabby_Hoffman Wonders Whether Her Brain Also Counts as a ‘Lady Part’

Has any recent phenomenon been more strange than the Left’s embrace of the Vagina Monologues as an expression of female “empowerment”? This theme — gynecology as ideology — reveals the underlying narcissistic appeal of identity politics, wherein the craving for self-esteem is satisfied by celebrations of group solidarity This groupthink trend is what causes leftists to attack actress Stacey Dash […]

The Tears of Unfathomable Sadness

Andrew Sullivan emotionally implodes over the latest poll: The Pew poll is devastating, just devastating. Before the debate, Obama had a 51 – 43 lead; now, Romney has a 49 – 45 lead. That’s a simply unprecedented reversal for a candidate in October. . . . Seriously: has that kind of swing ever happened this […]

A Poor Substitute For Live At Five

— by Wombat-socho I had every intention of getting up at the usual ungodly hour this morning and doing Tuesday’s Live At Five, but I underestimated how fatigued I’d be after eight hours of doorknocking for American Majority Action yesterday down in Prince William County. I slept right through the alarm and didn’t get up […]

Ash!

by Smitty It’s slightly mundane, the triumph of a Presidential candidate with enough motivation for the job to take on a little rain: Mitt Romney looks great in the rain twitter.com/NicoHines/stat… — Nico Hines (@NicoHines) October 8, 2012 Indeed, it’s a far cry from the ol’ boom-stick days: UPDATE: [well, so much for letting me […]

Among The Minor Side-Ironies Of The End Of Progressivism

by Smitty Daily Pundit links Insty, noting the 2/3 military support enjoyed by Romney. Of the third who do support #OccupyResoluteDesk, one wonders what chunk would drop were the racial background of the #Occupant to alter. . . More interestingly than that, the military, including retirees, should form a vast special-interest group. Cleverly, the active duty DoD […]

@chucktodd Is There Is An Honest Bone In The Media Or The Administration, Insofar As There’s A Difference?

by Smitty Via Brietbart, below the fold for autoplay reasons, we have the sad case of somebody in an industry that has been working since, oh, Bush v. Gore to support an ideological takeover of the U.S. government. Oh, is that a baseless attack? Fine. Retracted. I freely admit to an allegation which I’m not […]

Movie Rated ‘R’ for Scene in Which Breitbart Rapes the Media Narrative

Tonight is the DC premiere of Andrew Marcus’s excellent new documentary, Hating Breitbart, which gets some unexpected free publicity: Producers of the biographical documentary “Hating Breitbart” got news last week that their film received an “R” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. And with that move official Hollywood, long the preserve of liberal […]

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