The Other McCain

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

My Congresstool Shames Me

by Smitty From RetireJimMoran.com: In October 2008, during a debate with 2008 GOP candidate Mark Ellmore at an Indian-American forum, Jim Moran “freaked out” at the notion that both parties are to blame for the Wall Street mess that contributed to the recession and caused the bailouts. A lady at the forum asked Moran, “Wouldn’t […]

Stephen Green: Immigrant Percussionist?

by Smitty (h/t Miss Cellania) Is that really the Vodka Pundit on the left on percussion with an empty?

Wasting Too Many Words

Daniel Larison titles a post “McCain’s Integrity” — meaning Cousin John — and then expends more than 900 words analyzing something that doesn’t exist. John McCain has no integrity. Period. Update: (Smitty) Your attention is drawn to American Freedom’s “John McCain’s Whimsical World of Conservatism 2005-2007” for a fumble-by-fumble description of why we need fewer […]

Somebody Really Ought to Make a ‘Downfall’ Parody Video About This

Except of course, you can’t do that anymore: ‘Hitler Reacts to…’ — that patron saint of YouTube memes — seems to be on its way out. The clips, which dub a scene from the 2004 German-language film ‘Downfall,’ are being rapidly pulled by Constantin Films, which is claiming copyright infringement. The film features Hitler (portrayed […]

Filibuster Financial Reform? What Kind of Senator Would Dare to Do Such a Thing?

Five years ago, it was a certain freshman Senator from Illinois and his fellow Democrats: [I]n July 2005 . . . the Senate Banking Committee, then controlled by the Republicans, adopted tough regulatory legislation for the GSEs [government-sponsored entities, i.e., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] on a party-line vote — all Republicans in favor, all […]

Obamanomics Update: Still Not Working

Ed Morrissey and Ace of Spades both highlight a Big Government item about the Obama administration fudging employment statistics: The number of jobs in the U.S. is currently 129.7 million. So to justify the Administration’s current claim of 2.8 million jobs “created or saved” by stimulus, they need to also claim that without that stimulus […]

‘Dear Penthouse Forum . . .’

“A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks. Will Manly, who said the New York-based Wilson Library Bulletin withheld the results of his survey in 1992, published results recently on his Web site indicating 51 percent of […]

What Lefty Site Does Whinyus Maximus Hope Will Hire Him?

by Smitty Fabius Maximus could not possibly sound more emasculated in “The Tea Party Movement disproves my recommendation. . .” if his wife’s name was on the masthead of a pre-eminent Lefty site. Many folks said I was wrong, and so it proved to be. We have the mass citizen involvement I long recommended, and […]

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