The Other McCain

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

MULTIPLEX MASSACRE: 13 Dead After Shooting at Colorado ‘Batman’ Opening; UPDATE: Suspect Identified by Police as 24-Year-Old James Holmes; UPDATE: ABC News Interviews Suspect’s Mother? UPDATE: Despicable — Stephanopoulos Implicates Tea Party in Tragedy

At least 14 people are dead in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, after a gunman opened fire inside a movie theater. UPDATE: Ten people were shot dead inside the theater, which was crowded with patrons watching the opening of the new “Batman” movie; while four more victims died at local hospitals or en route […]

Ancient Commenter Solomon On The Topic Of Paint Huffers, Or Harry Reid, Insofar As A Difference Is Discernable

by Smitty Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Proverbs 29:18 Hot Air brings the depressing detail, emphasis mine: The Weekly Standard: Leader Reid, when it comes to the Bush tax cuts…why didn’t Senate Democrats push through this bill back when you controlled the Senate, […]

How to Become Irrelevant

The key to becoming irrelevant is to develop an irrational obsession — an idée fixe — and ride that hobby horse without regard for changes in circumstances or public interest. Become tedious by ranting against obscure scapegoats and obsolete controversies that have no signficance except to you and whatever tiny clique of like-minded kooks share your fanatical fixation. […]

Mark Oxner Ad: Pure Awesome. Or Is That Orwellian Fright?

by Smitty This is both a political ad against Alan Grayson, and a sobering vignette that holds true for the whole country: Mark Oxner for Congress Alan Grayson’s reasonable future job is Barack Obama’s caddy

California Liberals to Latino Small Business Owners: ‘No Way, José!’

Liberals love Latinos, right? Except in California. Except when the Latinos in question are small business owners who sell tacos from food trucks. Steven Greenhut explains at Reason magazine: Desperate for cash, state officials now make unrealistic estimates of their sales and employ heavy-handed tactics, they explain. To make matters worse, the truck owners say that […]

Florida Source: Sex Accusation Against Lieutenant Governor ‘Total Bullsh*t’

Just talked to a Florida source who assures me that there is no truth to the accusations made against Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. The claim, made by a disgruntled ex-employee, that Carroll had a lesbian affair with her assistant Beatriz Ramos is “total bullsh*t,” my source says. Known to friends as “Bibi,” Ramos is […]

Florida: The Crazy State

The competition for Craziest State in the Union has always been fierce. It has been said that South Carolina is too small to be a republic, but too large to be a lunatic asylum. Yet in recent decades, California has been recognized as foremost in sheer madness, rivaled only by Louisiana. Now, however, California must yield the […]

‘They’re Demoralized as Hell!’

Jammie Wearing Fools recently pointed out that the June fundraising numbers inspired a sense of panic at Obama HQ, with one anonymous Democrat saying, “If people are freaked out, I think they should be freaked out.” And you can expect the Democrat freakout to intensify next Friday when we get the official FEC reports for […]

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