The Other McCain

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

A Little Schadenfreude From Ed Driscoll

by Smitty Because Mrs. The Other Smitty loves it when I abuse her tongue. Ed Driscoll rolls out the hot shadow laughter for BHO-One Quixote*: Incidentally, it’s got to be quite a comedown from having a rare combination of enough chutzpah and imaginary messianic power to say with a straight face, “This was the moment […]

Give Jimmie Bise Some Money

No sense beating around the bush here: Jimmie Bise Jr. is having an online fund-raiser to support his excellent podcast The Delivery. Go hit his tip jar — I did.

Actually, Sprinklerman Has A Straighforward Play

by Smitty Morrissey makes it sound as though the Speaker of the House was ‘a young apprentice / caught between the Scylla and Charybdis’ when it comes to the debt ceiling: Of course, most voters don’t want the debt-ceiling limit raised, either. That gives Boehner a lot more political leverage than he normally would have, […]

And Yet, Instapundit . . .

by Smitty Insty links Pilon at Cato on the Barbour exit, and finishes with a rumination: . . .when you have a system of government so demanding at top levels that few normal people care to participate in it, you will get few normal people at the top levels. Two points: When normal people, e.g. […]

Amy Alkon Says She Does Not Have a Penis and Does Not Hate Black People

I’m willing to take her word for it on both counts, but why was she accused by “progressives” of being a racist transsexual? She explains in this interview with Dr. Helen Smith and Dr. Barbara Oakley (click the image to watch): Both Alkon and Oakley have new books out: (Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

I Must Be Missing Something

by Smitty The President can override Congress on having various staff Czars with a signing statement, but he can’t close Guantanamo Bay, in accordance with his campaign promises. What if BHO had had a Guantanamo Bay Czar? What would that guy do?

Ace of Spades and Bill Kristol

You’ve got to admit that’s a pretty cool mental image: Ace of Spades talking 2012 presidential politics with Bill Effing Kristol at the Breitbart book party. It’s probably just a mattter of time now before we see Kristol on TV telling Fred Barnes, “Well, I admit you’ve got a point there, Fred, but as Ace […]

Women Are Mean to Me

Little Miss Attila accuses me of advocating “sex-segregated Puritan libertinism.” What I was actually doing, of course, was having fun at the expense of spoilsport Caitlin Flanagan. But let’s face it: I have too much fun. Amanda Marcotte also decided to take a poke at me, for which I’m grateful, since she thereby called my attention […]

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