The Other McCain

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

Fear and Loathing, Et Cetera

Yes, I’m here in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada, home base for my coverage of the kickoff of the Tea Party Express III tour, among other things. Fortuitously, I arrived on the birthday of Minority Report blogger Steve Foley, and his birthday was celebrated in appropriate fashion. IYKWIMAITYD. Even more fortuitously, when JSF of Valley of the Shadow […]

Allow Valley Of The Shadow To Retort

by Smitty We’ve heard enough Lefty sob stories, with occasional factual basis, to last a lifetime. VotS has a multi-part, personal series. Peering into the future, my guess is that we will discover that socialized medicine is the ecological fallacy writ large. What do I mean? That humans ultimately remain individuals, and the one-size-fits-all approach, […]

Heady Complements Indeed

by Smitty Valley of the Shadow puts this blog in company with Instapudit, Gateway Pundit, and Atlas Shrugs in “The Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse: 2010 Version”. It would be tedious to say anything other than “thank you”. However, it would be silly not to note that you need a micrometer to measure the distance […]

Why Did ‘Hope and Change’ Fail?

JSF of Valley of the Shadow explains how Barack Obama’s political experience left him unprepared to cope with conservative opposition: When you study President Obama’s background, he never had to deal with Conservatives or Republicans. . . In Illinois, he never had any hard fought campaigns in his general election. And come 2008, it was going […]

Some Stranger in San Francisco Now Has Tucker Carlson’s Cell-Phone Number

Also, the personal numbers of Tom Wolfe, Bob Barr and Hunter S. Thompson’s widow, Anita, which were in the phone I accidentally left in the SF international airport Saturday during a long layover en route home from California. So if any of my good friends receive harassing phone calls in the next few days, please […]

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