The Other McCain

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

‘[Mario Draghi] Will Fight To The Last German Taxpayer To Keep The Mediterranean Countries That Should Never Have Joined The Euro In There’

by Smitty Hold on to the end, as another MEP asks a fascinating question, which I’ll paraphrase: <spicolli>Mr. Hand, you’re like this epic buzzkill. You have been sounding like the Pet Shop Boys played backward since around the sixth season of South Park. Can’t you just quit harshing our mellow and say something different?</spicolli> The […]

SHOCKING: Libyan Mob Attack Kills Four, Including U.S. Ambassador
UPDATE: ‘Full-Blown … Crisis’
UPDATE: Hey, MSM, No Fair Shouting Questions at President Gutsy Call

Just woke up to this news. When I went to bed last night, I knew that one American had been killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But when I woke up — wow. This is stunning. UPDATE: Washington Post: U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans […]

We Are Prepared to Come Kill You UPDATE: One American Killed, Another Wounded in Libyan Attack

The other day I asked my wife where our 19-year-old son Bob was. The answer: Hiking up a mountain with an 85-pound pack. He recently enlisted in the Army, having scored a near-maximum on the ASVAB test, and will report to boot camp in a few months — some kind of delayed-entry deal — as […]

DNC Platform Lets Hamas Off the Hook

Jeff Dunetz reports: Comparing the language of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the 2012 Democratic Party Platform a key section was removed. That section called for isolating Hamas “until it renounces terrorism,” so now, evidently, Democrats are OK with Hamas terrorism. Press statement from Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition: “This […]

Sure Am Glad It Was The Saudis Who Objected To .gay Internet Domain

by Smitty The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ranging from .porn and .sexy to .wine and .bar and .bible, according to records of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Can you imagine the barrage of shrill, tedious lectures on the need for […]

Swedish Socialist Hypocrisy

Leftist dies, hilarious hijinks ensue: “Greedy” means “you won’t give me what I want, just because it’s yours, not mine.”

Exposing The Ideological Roots Of The EU

by Smitty Mario “Three Card” Monti, the Prime Minister of Italy, figures the EU is AFU: In an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti warned of the “psychological break-up” of Europe if the euro crisis is not soon resolved. . . . The fact that Monti chose to […]

U.S. Allies Like Poland Deserve Better Than #OccupyResoluteDesk

by Smitty Hinderaker has the right of it: This deserves to be a major news story. Perhaps it would be, if America’s reporters and editors weren’t so busy working on the Obama campaign. The topic? Reflecting Warsaw’s long-standing anger over the 2009 cancellation of a controversial Bush-era anti-ballistic missile system President Bronislaw Komorowski said Poland […]

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