The Other McCain

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

Is It Ironic That Elizabeth Warren, Slated To Head The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Has A Potential Credit Card Fraud Problem?

by Smitty Breitbart notes the Boston Globe’s report of a $36 million dollar for Pseudajawea–good on her–and then this worrisome bit: Yet more than 40% of these funds–an estimated $16 million–have come online via two websites that do not have industry-standard protections and are vulnerable to fraud and illegal foreign national donations. Today’s report, which […]

@SCrowder Channels His Inner Bowie

by Smitty Delightfully funny: Join me in pressuring Steven Crowder, as Ozzy-bama and Chris Loesch as Randy Rhodes, into doing a campaign-meltdown version of “Crazy Train” in time for the election. Poodle-heads forever!

@Nigel_Farage “This Battle Of Bureaucracy Verses Democracy”

by Smitty “I never stab anybody in the back. I always stab in the front.” Keep your pimp hand strong, Nigel! via American Power

Resting Place For Mainstream Media

by Smitty Slashdot links the MOMA announcing an exhibit: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop‘ …the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age. Featuring some 200 visually captivating photographs created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, the exhibition offers […]

The Obama-Clinton “Prisoner’s Dilemma”

by Smitty While they have a senior-subordinate relationship, at that altitude, Obama and Clinton are more like peers, especially in the broader scope of the Democrat Party, where Barack is hoping Bill will loan enough luster to Obama to somehow win re-election. Thus, Benghazi-quiddick (we should limit the -gate suffix on scandals lacking a death […]

Michael Brutsch, Troll Behind Reddit’s ‘Jailbait’ and ‘Creepshots’ Sections

A couple of quick points up front: I’ve never used Reddit, and had no idea that it rivaled Twitter and Facebook in terms of viral online distribution. Adrian Chen and Gawker are vile scum. Nevertheless, there is a car-wreck-on-the-highway factor in Chen’s article about Michael “Violentacrez” Brutsch that makes you stare with ghastly fascination at this seamy underside of the […]

That Winning Combination

by Smitty Update: welcome, Instapundit readers!

Administration ‘Completely Wrong’ About Libya, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Admits, But ‘That Doesn’t Mean It Was False’

Ladies and gentlemen, The Queen of Unintentional Comedy: PIERS MORGAN: “It is pretty un-American to be putting out completely false statements before you know the facts. Isn’t it?” DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “Piers, it is not okay for you to be saying that the administration was putting out completely false statements. They put out information that […]

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