The Other McCain

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

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink

by Smitty Say. No. More!

Cracking Under Pressure?

DAYTON, Ohio No, not me. I haven’t lost it yet. I’m talking about Team Obama telling reports to “f–k off,” among other things. The situation is not as rosy for the Democrats as the media would have you think, but I’m under pressure — gotta drive to an event in Cincinnati this morning — so […]

The ‘Yute’ Vote Confronts The Empty Chair

by Smitty What can I say? I voted for Perot in ’92.

Fast and Furious — in Libya?

Dan Collins is just askin’ questions: So, eyewitnesses are saying that not only wasn’t the movie the cause of the attack, but that there wasn’t any protest of the movie prior to the attack. Suspicion now falls on an al-Qaeda operative who was sent from Gitmo to Gaddafi in 2007, after Gaddafi agreed to keep […]

E-Mail From Bert, the Samoan Lawyer

Commenting on some recent events, and quite interesting: How many of the purported Republicans and/or conservatives that have been pronouncing Romney a sure loser in the last three weeks are among those that, during the primaries, said the GOP had to nominate him because he was the only one who could win? Of those, how […]

Shhh, Breitbart: Let The Studio Squeeze Out ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

by Smitty Breitbart is making a valid point that, after latest Middle Estern riots, Zero Dark Thirty could be seen as a provocation. Maybe releasing that movie is a bad idea. But consider this: The people staging military attacks with YouTube clips as a pretext could find an insult to the profit in a yoga […]

Alex Brant-Zawadzki (@Beezling) Gets Blunt Words About Wild Goose Chases

Did I ever mention that I’m a professional journalist who’s been at this business since 1986? I think I did. And probably I’ve also mentioned a time or two that I started out at $4.50 an hour for a 6,000-circulation weekly in Austell, Georgia, working my way up from there by ceaseless toil. It ain’t […]

VIDEO @PaulRyanVP: ‘Four Years Into a Presidency and It’s Incomplete?’

Interviewed Sunday on KKTV in Colorado, President Obama was asked to grade his presidency and gave himself an “incomplete.” Maybe he’s grading himself on the curve, but Paul Ryan isn’t impressed with Professor Obama’s academic rigor: CBS News: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan said in regard to the comment, “Four years into a […]

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