The Other McCain

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

Incentivizing the Anti-Palin Slime

Chris Bodenner at The Atlantic Monthly: The link is to Jesse Griffin of the Immoral Minority blog, who perpetrated the Palin divorce hoax of August 2009, and who was forced to resign as a kindergarten aide at an Anchorage elementary school after his porn-blogging habits were exposed. Griffin, Dennis Zaki, Jeanne Devon — when it […]

A Relevant Parable

Once on a snowy evening, a woman went for a walk and happened upon a snake. The snake had strayed from his nest before the winter storm hit and, unable to make it back underground in time, was now nearly frozen to death. Seeing its beautiful colors and having pity, the woman decided to rescue […]

Roman Polanski Freed By Switzerland

Because Europeans are “sophisticated” like that: Switzerland said on Monday it would not send Roman Polanski back to the United States to face sentencing for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, freeing the Oscar-winning director from 10 months arrest. Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said she had decided against extradition because of potential […]

What If Glenn Beck Said This?

“I think of Obama’s politics as entirely cultural. It is about creating the new America, epitomized by Barack Obama’s racially mixed radicalism. It is about banishing the Bush-Cheney years by celebrating the man hired to destroy the Constitution. It is about dreaming of a new America — the America transformed by the New Deal, by mass immigration of non-whites, by the civil […]

Levi Lied, Sully Cried

Andrew Sullivan detects a conspiracy to silence the trailer trash hustlers courageous souls who speak the Trig Truth: In Palinland, no one knows what’s really going on. But I wonder if this is a somewhat panicked response to the recent blip upwards in web interest in the Trig question. With all these family members able to speak […]

Nice Work, No Sheeples!

by Smitty Thomas Sowell knows a great deal, but Real Clear Politics should retain No Sheeples Here for that crucial graphic. The Republicans do resemble a Charlie Boehner figure, tricked again and again by Lucy van Pelosi. Sowell asks: Why Republicans join such transparent attempts to rescue the Democrats from the political consequences of their […]

Lisa Murkowski’s Palin Problem

Joe Miller is the Republican primary challenger to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was rated No. 5 on the Human Events list of “Top 10 Senate RINOs” (and that was when Arlen Specter was still a Republican). The Aug. 24 Alaska primary is the subject of my latest American Spectator column:  Any disinterested political observer would be tempted […]

Immigration, Assimilation and Sovereignty

Michelle Malkin writes about “the unhyphenated, the law-abiding, the gratitude-filled sons and daughters and grandchildren of legal immigrants” and supplies a  brief history of the Founding Fathers’ views on immigration and assimilation. As I’ve often said, the way liberals (including some Republicans who think they’re conservative) talk about immigration, you might get the idea that Emma Lazarus […]

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