The Other McCain

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

If Obama Has Lost Garance …

Garance Franke-Ruta is a serious lefty writer, and also a friend of mine, and she gets all critical theory in analyzing President Obama’s declaration that Kamala Harris is the “best-looking attorney general,” saying that the president’s error was “in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of […]

Obama Hasn’t ‘Evolved’ That Far … Yet

Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services requested public comment on a proposal to provide taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery, but scrubbed the proposal off their Web site as soon as it was reported by news agencies. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air understands the Obama-logic: Congress has been arguing over how to limit the current Medicare/Medicaid […]

Mr. Nobel Peace Prize Works His Magic: Israel Now at War With Syria?

All it took was an Obama trip to the Mideast, and suddenly everything seems to be flying completely sideways: Reuters is reporting that Israel has fired upon and destroyed a machine gun position in the Golan Heights. It is unclear at this moment whether this is merely spillover from the Syrian civil war or whether […]

Heh: ‘Organizing For Access’

by Smitty We really need to elect a Republican President, so that bad things can again be bad.

#OccupyResoluteDesk: ‘I Take A Balanced Approach To Imbalanced Budgets’

by Smitty “Paul Ryan, today, put forward his budget,” says ABC, “and he says, he’s challenging you to come forward with a budget that also reaches balance. Are you going to do that?” “No,” Obama says. “My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance,” Obama said. “My goal […]

Lying by Euphemism: ‘New Revenues’

Journalism is supposed to be about truth. Jackie Calmes and Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times are engaged in deception: With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues, President Obama has begun reaching around them to Republican lawmakers with a history of willingness to cut bipartisan deals. “New revenues” = INCREASING TAXE RATES. President […]

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 […]

‘He Would Fain Have Had It’

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it. It was mere foolery. I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown (yet ’twas not a crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets) and, as I told you, […]

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