The Other McCain

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

Everybody at CPAC Likes to Have Their Photos Taken With Celebrities …

. . . which is why some obscure dudes from a cable-TV show insisted on having their photos taken with Susannah Fleetwood and Sarah Rumpf: Video of the obscure cable-TV dudes at CPAC: Remember that most people tuned into cable TV at 3 a.m. are watching ads for the George Foreman grill or “natural male […]

Has Alex Knapp Proven Anything?

“Contrary to my colleague Doug’s description of the Federal government as existing primarily to redistribute wealth, there is actually very little wealth re-distribution in the United States.” — Alex Knapp, Outside the Beltway It is not my habit to defend Doug Mataconis, as he and I very often disagree about politics. But Doug’s post, “The […]

Sissypuss The Blog Kitty Will Now Do A Performance Art Summary Of The Leftist Triumph In Wisconsin

by Smitty This is a little something mooched from Miss Cellania that summarizes the situation in cheeseland rather effectively. It’s below the fold so that Stacy doesn’t reach through the internet and slap me for slowing the page load.

The Real Deal in Madison

Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress recounts the story behind the protests in Wisconsin: How Democrats, after losing the November election, called a special lame-duck session in an abortive effort to lock in sweetheart deals for government employee unions. When that didn’t work, Democrats have since tried to prevent Republicans from acting to […]

VIDEO: Chicago Commies in Wisconsin

Thanks to Maggie’s Notebook for this video from the MacIver Institute showing Chicago-based members of the Revolutionary Communist Party arriving in Madison to distribute their propaganda at the protests: Bob Avakian’s RCP is the leading Maoist group in the U.S. RCP spinoffs include Refuse & Resist and Not in Our Name, which were important presences in the Bush-era […]

I Guess The Real Question Is: ‘Can An Amphibian Like Troglopundit Be Elected’?

by Smitty Hopes of a domestically boring time period while I’m over by the Hindu Kush have proven futile. One would not have picked Wisconsin as the epicenter of the meltdown, but there it is. The teachers jumped the shark, and the Democrats jumped the border. Chicago Boyz point out that, in addition to quirky […]

FMJRA 2.0: Dirty Love (Frank Zappa, R.I.P.)

CPAC Ends, Media Lies Continue Maggie’s Notebook Maggie’s Notebook Maggie’s Notebook Maggie’s Notebook Marfdrat The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative A Moral Outrage Radio Vice Online Temple Of Mut Sarah Palin Information Red State Eclectic The Bottom Line is the Punchline in Obama’s Laughable Joke of a Budget The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative The […]

She Went Down to the Demonstration …

. . . to get her fair share of abuse, but even Ann Althouse can’t always get what she wants. She found a woman holding a sign that said, “Please don’t teabag our children.” (Question: Did that woman have any children of her own? Or was the phrase “our children” employed in the progressive, collectivist […]

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