The Other McCain

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

The ‘How Dare You’ Defense on Benghazi

Pocan (D-WI) says “there’s no smoking gun… from this.” line seeks to minimize the testimony near end of the hearing.pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05… — Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) May 8, 2013 Associated Press: Let’s Quote Democrats Dismissing the Testimony Before We Quote the Witness bostonglobe.com/news/nation/20… | @vjmfilms — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 9, 2013 “This has been a […]

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up

Flaming skull alert at Ace of Spades for the release of e-mails confirming that (a) officials knew from the outset that the attack on the consulate in Libya was the work of terrorists, but (b) this information was suppressed for political purposes: State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, worried that members of Congress would use the […]

Economics, Translated to Plain English

The eminent James Pethokoukis gives you the technocratic jargon: US job growth in April beat economist expectations as nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000, and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.5%. But the report contained worrisome signs that President Obama’s health care reform law is hurting full-time, high-wage employment. While the American economy added 293,000 […]

Obama’s Syrian Dilemma

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) President Gutsy Call promised serious consequences if Syria’s Assad regime crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons against anti-government rebels. Now that there is clear evidence that Assad used chemical weapons? Well, it’s nuanced, Chuck Todd explains: “I can tell you there is regret […]

Have You Heard the One About the President Who Was a Miserable Failure?

We could laugh at the jokes, but of course, the joke is really on us: This incompetent bumbler is in fact President of the United States! Ba-dah-BOOM!    

The Hope Industry

What? You thought this was about philanthropic humanitarianism? A boldfaced Obama name can rake in upward of $25,000 per month from a client just by dialing into a conference call and drafting a memo from time to time. Four clients means more than a million dollars a year with virtually no overhead. “You can run […]

President Finally Unites Americans: Everybody Hates Obama’s Budget

Let’s start with the most obvious signal of unity: If President Obama has lost a liberal like Taylor Marsh . . . President Obama is daring the right to blow this chance [to reach a deficit[-reduction deal]. Unfortunately, the game of chicken the President is playing with people’s only avenue to stay out of poverty […]

A Great First Sentence

One basic thing you learn as a journalist is that, once you’ve got the lead right, the rest of the story almost writes itself: If the news media hadn’t told you how brilliant Barack Obama was every day for  the last six years, you might have your doubts. Read the whole thing.

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