The Other McCain

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

Hint: “Don’t Turn Left” X 3 Is Known As “The Hard Way” To Make A Right Turn

by Smitty Via the never boring Sully, The occasionally great @skippystalin says something important, not cloaked in his dreary libertarianism skippy-posts.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-new-… READ IT — Ms. Navillus (@SalaciousSully) December 2, 2012   I read the post, based upon this photo: Emphasis mine: I’m not going to discount entirely the possibility that I’m just a hyper-conservative whackjob […]

‘Roid Rage’ in NFL Shooting?

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher has reportedly murdered his girlfriend and then committed suicide. More details at Buzzfeed Sports. While the motive for this murder-suicide is yet unknown, whenever I see something like this in the news — professional athletes engaged in extreme violence — I automatically suspect it may be a side-effect of […]

At The VA GOP Advance

by Smitty I just took in Morton Blackwell’s post-mortem on the election. He quoted extensively from Goldwater: I had a very exciting time at the Republican National Convention. My conservative allies and I all worked very hard in the presidential election. When I woke up the day after the election, everything I had worked for appeared […]

The Media’s Weird Silence on Soros

The Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti observes how little attention was paid to the recent meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a left-wing fundraising network backed by billionaire George Soros: More likely the media simply ignore data that complicate their preferred narrative. When it comes to the fraught relationship between money and politics, that narrative is as follows: Money […]

The Fiscal Cliff Rub

by Smitty Fiscal Cliff Rub: this has nothing to do with $. This is the last gasp of separation of powers and the House of Reps. @thekingdude — Preservative (@smitty_one_each) November 30, 2012 The Fiscal Cliff Rub: if Boehner can’t show the Constitution meaningful, he should open a massage parlor called ‘Fiscal Cliff’ and give […]

Speaker Of The House Shocked That President Who Likely Left Two Heros High And Dry In Benghazi Proves Incapable Of Keeping Phone Call Secret

by Smitty For crying out loud in the dark, Boehner: Republicans believe the administration leaked details of the 30-minute Wednesday night phone call to Politico, which is causing them to question whether they can trust the White House to keep details private, a sentiment that has caused progress in the negotiations over the “fiscal cliff” […]

Libya’s Lingering Questions

“Who changed the Benghazi talking points?” asks Sharyl Atkisson of CBS News, and I’m grateful that she’s still asking it. Much of the national press corps is trying to make us forget the Sept. 11 incident that resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and four other Americans, and we should praise the […]

When Compromise Means ‘Damn Your Eyes’

by Smitty When compromise Means ‘Damn your eyes’, And honor is passé, And the ship’s port list, Has the crewmen pissed, For capsizing’s no’ so gay, Since Reason and Math, Have succumbed to the wrath, Of the hormone of the day: A rational one asks, While the media basks, In a General’s tawdry straying, Did […]

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