The Other McCain

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

Eagerly Awaited Steven Crowder Video

by Smitty Here it is, as noted yesterday.

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, iv
The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds

by Smitty Le Bon, on the emphasis for lots of staged imagery from fascists. Whatever be the ideas suggested to crowds they can only exercise effective influence on the condition that they assume a very absolute, uncompromising, and simple shape. They present themselves then in the guise of images, and are only accessible to the […]

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, iii
The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds

by Smitty Writing in the late 1800’s, and looking back to the French Revolution, Le Bon sees a spontaneous crowd as a truly dumb beast: The creation of the legends which so easily obtain circulation in crowds is not solely the consequence of their extreme credulity. It is also the result of the prodigious perversions […]

CPAC Is Already Happening

by Smitty I made it up to the Marriott Wardman Park to get the conference package for CPAC12. The blogger lounge was the same room as two years ago, but they have cut down on the actual seating. This will make it harder to sit down and blog, but might make the bandwidth more reasonable […]

President Who Attacked The SCOTUS For Citizens United OK’s SuperPAC

by Smitty Noted 2010 thought criminal Justice Samuel Alito must feel some satisfaction at the news that #OccupyWhiteHouse has blessed the efforts of Priorities USA. Let’s have the entire dextrosphere relax here. BHO is no hypocrite. Only conservatives, especially of the white male persuasion, can be hypocrites. More at Da Tech Guy. via The Moderate […]

Due To Unpopular Demand, The World’s Youngest Blogger May Not Attend CPAC

by Smitty Bill Quick links to Red State discussion of the plans for #OccupyCPAC. Let’s face facts: CPAC is a high-risk evolution. I’m talking about traveling to and from a major hotel in the capital city of the country, in daylight hours, using a mix of public and private transportation. That is really living on […]

A Federalist Progressive Disaster: Scant Improvement Over A Progressive Disaster

by Smitty Gateway Pundit has a short clip of the Florida AG on Greta:The claim is made that Pam Bondi stated Romney is desirous of RomneyCare isn’t in the clip. A direct quotation would be helpful, with context. I can envision Mitt saying that, if states choose to implement a RomneyCare-style plan, that’s their prerogative. […]

Vice President Rex KramerBiden Wasn’t Sure On The Bin Laden Raid

by Smitty Mediaite on our wunderkind second in command: Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a conference of House Democrats in Maryland today, and in discussing the SEAL Team raid that successfully took out Osama bin Laden, he admitted that he advised President Obama not to carry out the mission because “we have to do […]

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