The Other McCain

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

Should Mitt Romney Go To Detroit, Or Venezuela?

by Smitty Some wags want to draft Mitt Romney to re-habilitate Detroit from the joys of decades of Democrat party policy. However, a far more sizable executive job opening now awaits to the south: Venezuela. Eugene Robinson exemplifies the slack-jawed Lefty urge to suck up to something authoritarian. “All the socialized health services, and all […]

Go, Kira Davis!

by Smitty Somebody needs to rid us of these turbulent Bushes: Mr. Priebus, in 2012 the GOP missed a HUGE opportunity to push out some more “diverse” faces to bring the message of liberty and smaller government to their communities. There is a sizable community of Black Republican/conservative bloggers who highlight that message every day. […]

Atlantic Editor to Freelancer: ‘We Unfortunately Can’t Pay You for It …’

Olga Khazan, global editor of The Atlantic, was a junior in high school on April 3, 2003. You may not recognize the significance of that date, even if you’re a longtime Atlantic reader. Evidently Ms. Khazan didn’t either, nor did she recognize the name Nate Thayer when she saw his byline on a story at […]

Also Sprach Daniel Hannan

by Smitty Americans! The US Constitution may be flawed, but it’s a great deal better than what you have now! — Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) March 2, 2013 Two months into our celebration of a century of Woodrow Wilson, one question is whether the people have been flogged enough to understand that the Progressive Project is […]

Power Line Got That Backward

by Smitty Power Line points out that the Meteorologist-in-Chief is full of hooey, per this 13-word SOTU passage: Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. But it’s not that this particular crap-shot to the dome is unusual. Even the famous electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket was delivered in […]

The Rev. @ThorHalvorssen’s Universal Holiness Temple Choir of ‘Human Rights’

Thor Halvorssen is, so far as I can tell, not one of the bad guys, although I don’t remember ever hearing of him until Monday night, when I was on the phone with a MalaysiaGate source who said, “It’s this Thor Halvorssen guy who’s really pushing it.” OK, you got my attention there, Mr. Source. What […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.05.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Venezuela’s Chavez Fighting For His Life VP Maduro says Chavez suffering from respiratory infection, prognosis not favorable Obama Reaching Out To GOP In Effort To Avoid Sequester Democrats don’t have a plan, but don’t like ours President Names EPA, Energy Picks Will they be tasked with enacting climate change […]

‘MalaysiaGate’ Day Four: Conspicuous Silence and Convenient Memory Lapses

June 2008: Jerome Armstrong posted to Photostream this photo of him and Josh Treviño meeting with Zaid Ibrahim in Malaysia (click image to enlarge) Questions about the “MalaysiaGate” controversy — in which American bloggers were paid as part of a foreign government’s public-relations campaign — continued to be asked Monday, the fourth day since Rosie Gray of […]

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