The Other McCain

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

MSM Meme: Oh, Noes! Rich People Are Giving Money to Republicans!

Just look at the Memeorandum headline aggregation: Protesters raise cloud of sand as Romney raises $3 million in N.Y. — Los Angeles Times Romney Mines the Hamptons for Campaign Cash — New York Times Protesters demonstrate outside of Koch fund-raiser for Romney — CNN Protesters! The Koch Brothers! The Hamptons! Three million dollars! The innocent […]

Obama Seeks Tax Increase on ‘Rich’

So we’re back to this, huh? Another class-warfare fight over the “Bush tax cuts”? And more dishonest spin in the headlines: Obama Seeks 2013 Tax Cuts Within Limits — New York Times Obama to call for Bush tax cut extensions for those making less than $250,000 — CNN Fight Renewed Over Bush Tax Cuts — […]

$1 Million Free Association Post

by Smitty This great graphic from the Vodka Pundit: Recalls the ’80s clip:This recalls the lyric “Dressed up like a million dollar trooper”. Has #OccupyResoluteDesk requested his SuperPAC return the cool million to that uncool bucket of misogyny, Bill Maher?

Fourth Of July Message From A Leader

by Smitty Would that some others one could name were possessed of such clarity: via Brietbart For contrast, via The Lonely Conservative we have:

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dick Morris Thinks ObamaCare, Tim Kaine, And ObamaNomics Are Swell

by Smitty Oh, wait: make that ‘Swill‘. First day, new ears. Yesterday morning I took in the Americans for Prosperity event over in Sterling, up the road from Dulles Airport. Dick Morris was the marquee speaker. If you have only time for one clip, Watch The Last One. In the background of these, raising a […]

Spec Ops SuperPAC? Really?

by Smitty I don’t really go for concern trolls, as I was relating to Mataconis on Twitter earlier. But, as noted byhat tip to Nice Deb, there is a Rubicon being crossed when veterans as such become politicized. Granted, the one driving that politicizing is none other than #OccupyResoluteDesk himself. Incapable of leadership in any […]

The Afghanistan War Was A Total Success

by Smitty Insty points to HotAir on the Afghanistan Surge being mishandled. This argument operates under a misapprehension that any of Obama’s Afghanistan policy was ever serious in the first place. Obama campaigned in 2008 on the notion that the unpopular Iraq war was a distraction: Democrat Obama declared that the failed policy in Iraq […]

Obama Has Learned Nothing

“The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something […]

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