The Other McCain

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

Matthew Yglesias Asserts That Dale Peterson Is A Dessert Thief!

by Smitty OK, that is the literal value of Matthew Yglesias’s summary of Ben Smith on Peterson’s AgCom ad. Of course, Yglesias meant ‘takes the cake’ in a figurative sense. Yglesias, an Ivy League graduate, and thus my intellectual superior goes on to opine (emphasis mine): special interests (i.e., “thugs and criminals”) benefit from the […]

‘Responsible, Ethical Journalism’

Thanks to Maggie’s Farm for reminding us of this brilliant May 4 prediction about the Times Square car bomb from law professor Timothy Stoltzfus Jost: I think the politics of this incident will turn heavily on who is found to be responsible. If, as seems unlikely, the bomb is linked to South Asian or Middle […]

Fear & Loathing at 3600 New York Ave.

Having gotten out in January 2008 while the getting was good, I’m once again less than shocked by the latest news of chaotic madness at the Washington Times: Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million […]

PA12: Palin Picks a Winner

What do you do when you’re a Republican in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and you’ve just stomped Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked Democrat into smithereens in a public debate for the congressional seat formerly held by the late Jack Murtha? Tim Burns headed straight to Coney Island Lunch for the world-famous “Sundowner” burger: The Johnston Tribune-Democrat story about the debate is so […]

Doug From Reno, Sarah From Wasilla

From my column today in The American Spectator: Doug from Reno was standing about 50 yards from the stage at Saturday’s “Showdown in Searchlight,” two hours before the official noon start of the rally featuring Sarah Palin. He was part of a huge crowd already gathering for the big first-day event of the Tea Party […]

Just Booked My Flight: Vegas, Baby!

“Free Enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. . . . Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. … […]

Dave Weigel Sells Out

Guess he’s probably alreadly untagged all those Facebook photos of us hanging out together, eh? Don’t worry, Dave. Your secret is safe with me. Of course, if the Washington Post was going to hire someone to cover conservatives, you knew they had to hire somebody who despises conservatives. And Dave’s never made a secret of that. So […]

‘Dude, I’m So Wasted’

It was nearly midnight in D.C., and I was sitting on the patio of the Dubliner with my friends Victor Morton and Pete Parisi of The Washington Times, when I saw Sean Pean walking past on F Street. “Dude, that’s Sean Pean,” I said. Pete and Victor turned to look, but Penn had his back […]

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