The Other McCain

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

2012: Still A Muddle

by Smitty Rich Galen at CNSNews contrasts BHO with predecessors’ approval ratings at this point in their first administration. Carter was doing about 10 points worse. The interesting point is that BHO’s approval equals that of the Gipper: The best example is Ronald Reagan whose 43 percent matches Obama’s current rating. Reagan, let us remember, […]

Obama: Miracle Cure for Liberalism

Some people who were lulled into a trance are now wide awake: Daniel Loeb, founder of Third Point LLC, was one of the biggest Obama fund-raisers in 2008, rounding up $200,000 for him, according to campaign-finance records. In the decade prior, Mr. Loeb and his wife donated $250,000 to Democrats and less than $10,000 to […]

Important New Theory On The Etymology Of ‘Boob’

by Smitty (h/t Theo Spark) Reactions to the news were mixed, particularly with the man previously known as the Epitome of Boob:

Respecting Lawrence O’Donnell

by Smitty (via Hot Air) O’Donnell does a more courageous job of expressing the Progressive Faith than almost anyone else on the Left. The fact that the Progressive Faith arrives in a sodomized expression of Christianity comes close to triggering a puke reflex. It happens. May Heaven have mercy upon you, Lawrence O’Donnell, and the […]

Progressive Economics Fail At The Huffington Post

by Smitty Over at SOL/PuffHo, they just don’t get the new Progressive Economics. Jobs are what matter. Product? Not so much. Thus, if the State of Illinois pays for signs with spelling errors, that isn’t a bug, that’s a feature! Workers and materials suppliers will be kept busy moving the location of the typo all […]

VIDEO: Obama Sermonizes About This Silly Distraction From His Incompetence

Professor Glenn Reynolds: The White House may think it’s sprung a trap, but I think they waited too long. By now — as the polls from earlier this week showing how many independents thought Obama wasn’t born here, and which probably prompted the release decision, indicate — the damage is done. UPDATE: We now have […]

Donald Trump, Neo-Confederate?

That’s what Alyssa Rosenberg of Think Progress appears to be suggesting with her report that Donald Trump donated “$25,000 for the post-Katrina restoration of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis’s retirement estate on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.” “Pin the Confederate Tail on the Republican” seems to be a popular progressive game this week, with Jamelle Bouie of The American Prospect […]

Massacre in Mexico

President Obama has plenty of time to worry about Libya, while murderous anarchy is just across the southern border: Security forces have unearthed six more bodies in a northeastern Mexican border state where a drug gang is believed to be kidnapping passengers from buses and hiding their victims in secret graves, authorities said Tuesday. A […]

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