The Other McCain

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

You Don’t Say, Kirsten Powers!

The media — with certain notable exceptions, she neglects to add — “seem to have taken their marching orders from the Obama administration” in their coverage of the terrorist attack that killed our ambassador to Libya: The fact is, most of the major media didn’t even wait for marching orders, but rather began their coverage […]

Classic: State Department Attacks CNN for Reporting Inconvenient Facts on Libya

We now know that, despite warnings from multiple sources — including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens — about the rising threat from Islamic extremists in Libya, the Obama administration failed to take necessary precautions. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, the Obama […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Worldwide Headquarters of Crazy, Inc.

My plans to get to Ohio and cover the three-day Romney-Ryan Buckeye State bus tour that begins tomorrow have thus far been thwarted. It’s one of those long complicated stories you don’t want to hear, but if there is any conservative in the Mid-Atlantic region willing to make the run, please contact me on Twitter. I’ve offered […]

Dean: Romney’s Tax Rate “Doesn’t Seem Fair To Ordinary Working People”

by Smitty Howard Dean is almost admirable, in his twisted way, both for trying to push the Administration’s class warfare rhetoric, and then trying to label himself a moderate: Dean eats his party’s crap sandwich argument straight up. Hope that’s tasting good to you, Howard. via Hot Air

Topless @MsAlisonPill? Meh.

In case you didn’t know it, there is an HBO show called The Newsroom, one of the stars of which is a blonde young actress named Alison Pill who, as we might say, “pulled a Weiner.” That is to say, she had a Twitter accident in which, she explained, she was attempting to delete a topless photo of […]

I Blame Pat Condell For The Appropriation Of Obama’s Spine

by Smitty Poor Barack. I think we know where your vertebrae, and those of a few other world leaders, went: via Paco Update: Linked by Catholic Bandita and The Camp of the Saints, and American Power.

If The Sitting President Says Michelle Obama Is Qualified For POTUS, Then @SarahPalinUSA Surely Rates

by Smitty The Blaze: President Barack Obama offered a boost for his wife on Friday, saying first lady Michelle Obama could “definitely” win the presidency but that she has “too much sense” to run for office. “She definitely could be the president but she will never run for the presidency ’cause she’s got too much […]

Conor, You Lost Me At ‘Fix’

by Smitty Friedersdorf is normally Dan Riehl’s favorite target of derision, but one of our readers emailed a URL to article #74,325 in the “Until Republicans Fix [The Signal-To-Noise-Ratio], They Can’t Fix Any Problems” series. The inability to judge arguments on their merits and separate fact from fantasy is what ails the conservative movement. Later, […]

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