The Other McCain

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

Rick Santorum Hears Hillary Clinton’s Caution About GOP Campaign Rhetoric, Delivers Cupcake And Pony Speech

by Smitty Speaking to Tunisians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, in summary “Pay no mind to those zany Republicans; they’re just talking election-year smack.” Via Alan Colmes, via Tampa Bay Online: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to “not pay attention” to the comments made by […]

Flip This Question Around

by Smitty Should seniors have the freedom to opt out of Medicare? How about: why does the government get away with coercing anyone into any entitlement? We cannot overemphasize the point: Progressives are false.

Did The Romney Campaign Blow It By Kicking Stacy McCain Out?

by Smitty Daily Pundit linked Stacy’s “Fear and Loathing in Romneyland“, noting: And there you have one of the disadvantages of being a journo openly in the tank for one particular candidate. OTOH, they regard Stacy as a serious enough threat to pitch his ass out of there. Eight years ago, campaigns didn’t even know […]

The SNL Lin-sanity Sketch

by Smitty Ace was on about the Asian-American Journalists Association taking themselves way too seriously. Commenter #9, rockmom, pointed out that SNL had doen this. The idea that you just treat people respectfully, apologize when confusion arises, and graciously forgive those who step on your toes a bit just seems lost. I guess that was […]

Stacy McCain Infiltrates Koch-Brothers Cabal Of Extreme Extremism

by Smitty Are we supposed to believe that this so-called: ‘Michigan Prosperity Forum’ is anything other than an organizing even for foul extremists, bent on overthrowing Holy Progress? As Dr. Melissa Clouthier has reported, Americans for Prosperity is merely a front group for those bad, bad Koch brothers, whose hidebound commitment to pre-Progressive ideas like capitalism […]

Nuns for Santorum

Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist pose for a photo with Rick Santorum in Lincoln Park, Michigan, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 TROY, Michigan It’s gonna be kind of hard for Mitt Romney to compete with Rick Santorum in terms of his straight-out appeal to Catholic voters in Michigan. At last night’s Lenten fish […]

Old And Busted: Representative Democracy. New Hotness: European Disenfranchisement

by Smitty Call me a lunatic, but I think that the lengthy primary season has been a qualified success. The negative aspects of character assassination are due to (a) the media seeking to tell people what to think, and (b) voters rewarding crappy behavior on the part of candidates by way of SuperPACs. Other than […]

Fanaticism Is Such A Bore

by Smitty Allahpundit: Having one of the world’s most prominent atheists admit he’s not totally sure is catnip for believers, but all he’s doing is being a conscientious skeptic. Total certainty, in my humble, is fanaticism. The kind you encounter in sporting explosive fashion. For all I’m deeply certain that the Jewish carpenter is actually […]

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