The Other McCain

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

Disagreeing Agreeably

by Smitty American Power links Levin noting the Ron Paul people being intolerable. It’s a variation on the douchebag theme. Anybody can identify the faults in the logic of others. In Alinsky mode, you need to find that flaw and just pack it with every round of rhetorical artillery available. Or, as Genghis said: The […]

Chuck You, Schumer

Jay Homnick of The American Spectator contemplates the shamelessly sleazy senior senator from New York: By a weird quirk of fate, I was present as a sixteen-year-old boy at a local meeting of well-meaning Jews who were gulled into making him State Senator for the neighborhood where I grew up, in Brooklyn, New York. The […]

Libya: Serious or Not?

One of the reasons I’m having trouble taking the war in Libya seriously is that President Obama keeps treating it like another opportunity for political posturing. He gives his big nationally televised primetime speech on Monday and is off to wine and dine $30,000-a-plate donors on Tuesday while Vice President Joe Biden vacations in Aspen. Wait, […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.30.11

TOP NEWS Jerry Brown Declares California Budget Talks Dead GOP refuses to cut a deal to raise taxes Walmart Sex Bias Case Divides Supremes Justices dubious about statistical claims, “corporate culture” allegations by plaintiffs Japan’s Nuclear Crisis French, US reactor experts flown in to help resolve Fukushima situation POLITICS County Judge Tells Wisconsin Collective Bargaining […]

NY-25 Flashback: Dan Maffei Still Trying to Comprehend His Own Defeat

Perhaps you can imagine the big grin with which I’m writing this, as I think back on that day last October when Da Tech Guy and I arrived in New York’s 25th District and the front-page headline was: “Dan Maffei leads Anne Marie Buerkle by 12 points in new poll.” That would be former Democratic […]

Caught on Tape: Fox News Executive Privately Doubts Obama Is a Socialist?

It’s another one of those “gotcha” moments with Media Matters as Wile E. Coyote and Fox as the Road Runner. Fox executive Bill Sammon (with whom I used to work at The Washington Times) was on a 2009 cruise sponsored by Hillsdale College and gave a speech where he said this: “Last year, candidate Barack Obama […]

Quandry: The Best Musical Re-Write Of The President’s Libya Speech?

by Smitty Catching up on the blogs, it looks like the POTUS sounded like Bush minus the passion. My estimate of the conservative mood ring concerning the speech is somewhere around U2’s “Zooropa” The lyrics seem appropriate, for all the continent is a misfit: We’re mild and green And squeaky clean Zooropa… better by design […]

Proof Positive Props

by Smitty On a third blogiversary.

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