The Other McCain

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

Surprise: Supporters of Most ‘Transparent’ Administration Launch Smear Campaign Against GOP Congessman Investigating Most ‘Transparent’ Administration

Because they’re all about the transparency! Democrats are understandably obsessed with Darrell Issa — he’s built himself up as a one-man investigative machine aimed straight at the Obama presidency. But a handful of liberal political operatives . . . are taking their anti-Issa passion to a whole new level, launching a nonprofit group, a website […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.15.11

TOP NEWS GOP Mocks Obama Budget, House Weighs Spending Cuts Predictably, Pelosi whines that under GOP proposals, minorities and women hardest hit Iranian Deputies Call For Death Of Opposition Leaders Six Iranian cities rocked by demonstrations held in defiance of government orders Wave Of Tunisian Emigrants Alarms Italy Over 1000 arrive on Lampedusa after fleeing […]

‘We’ll Always Have CPAC’

Ginny at Obi’s Sister paid tribute to my schmoozing abilities by dubbing me the “cruise director” of CPAC, but I had just been watching Casablanca on TCM, so I told Ginny: “Cruise director”? I’d rather you thought of me as Rick Blaine in Casablanca: “We’ll always have CPAC.” Yeah, that’s me. Bogie, hardened and cynical: “I […]

$35,000 a Month, Plus Expenses

That’s what Mexico paid Republican Haley Barbour to lobby on behalf of amnesty for illegals: According to a State Department filing by Barbour’s former lobbying firm, The Embassy of Mexico decided to retain Barbour’s services on August 15, 2001, to work on, among other things, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for foreigners living […]

‘Obama the Moderate’ Myth

CNN spins it: President Barack Obama’s proposed $3.7 trillion budget was slammed by the left and the right Monday. Outraged liberals called it a callous assault on the poor; dismissive conservatives labeled it a debt-riddled assault on future generations. Which begs the question: Is Obama’s budget blueprint exactly what the president needs to capture the […]

I Didn’t Rape Tommy Christopher

You wouldn’t know that, given the way he has obsessively hounded me over a single blog post I wrote in December when Julian Assange was arrested. Recognizing that my attempts to clarify were a violation of the First Law of Holes, I posted my mea culpa, dropped the subject and moved on, but Tommy remains […]

The Bottom Line is the Punchline in Obama’s Laughable Joke of a Budget

Journalism is a profession woefully infested by math-impaired liberals, which may explain why the media have badly misconstrued the Obama administration’s federal budget plan. Here’s the Washington Post‘s spin: President Obama will respond to a Republican push for a drastic reduction in government spending by proposing sharp cuts of his own in a fiscal 2012 budget blueprint […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.14.11

Or, as we call it in the Wombat’s tribe, Bitter Singles Day. Because we’re surly like that. TOP NEWS Egyptian Military Dissolves Parliament Once-banned political parties revive, gather strength to rule Egypt Middle East Nations Struggle To Contain Unrest From Algeria to Iran, protesters take to the streets GOP, Independents Blast Proposed Budget Boehner: “He’s […]

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