The Other McCain

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

Reinhold Neibuhr Was a Subversive Pinko (and Other Conservative Insights)

One of the more amusing tendencies of certain “conservative intellectuals” — the scare-quotes are necessaary, if you know the type of people I have in mind — is their habit of name-checking famous (dead) conservatives in pursuit of arguments about the unworthiness of famous (living) conservatives. Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter will say something that […]

Evan Bayh Announces Retirement

He was seen as a leading vice-presidential contender for the Democrats in 2008, but Joe Biden got that job, and now Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh has announced he won’t seek re-election. Philip Klein at the American Spectator writes: This is further indication that moderate Democrats running in red states are eager to jump ship in what they expect […]

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU II. Economic Wars

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION) The route to Schloss Braunschlag had been designed in such a way that, cut into the mountain above the road, the prevailing wind kept it clean, blowing snow into the now impassible road. The shock of his ruthlessness quickly faded. The audience members cast their minds back to recent history. How quickly […]

Quin Hillyer Argues the Alabama Governor’s Race IN ALL CAPS!

On Friday I began my American Spectator column this way: Tim James was Tea Party before Tea Party was cool. Before the federal bailouts, before most Americans had heard of Barack Obama, before Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck became household names, James helped lead the 2003 effort to stop a tax increase proposed by Alabama’s […]

Is Goldman Sachs Too Big to Fail?
Is Kevin Smith Too Fat to Fly?

Is the Clerks filmmaker too fat to fly? Southwest Airlines says so. I’m interested only because some people say Ace of Spades vaguely resembles “Silent Bob.” Not that Ace is fat or anything, but certainly Drew M. could stand to lose a few pounds, and maybe this news is kind of a warning. Watch those carbs, Ace. On the other […]

Tactically Bad vs. Strategically Bad

by Smitty Instapundit points to the Las Vegas Sun with an article about the Tea Party movement going full-on third party. Insty: I think it’s smarter for Tea Party activists to target primary races, rather than starting their own party as seems to be happening in Nevada. Two words: “Ross Perot.” Two more: “Ralph Nader.” […]

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU I. Might Makes Right

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION) A set of steps were the only available means to cover the last quarter mile of the climb to Schloss Braunschlag from Davos. The androgynous speaker began in sinuous tones. I’ll call him ‘he’ for convenience, though the small frame in the plain kimono, so light for a room this cold, lacked […]

SFW Video: Hookers In The Graveyard

by Smitty (h/t Digg) The video will not entomb in our page, but you can see it here. As technology improves, I foresee more of this sort of thing. While the sheer voyeurism of catching others trading hormones excites me not (boring monogamist that I am) I had thought of getting on the Beltway with […]

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