The Other McCain

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

Alex Spillius: How Many Tea Parties Have You Attended?

by Smitty Have you been to any Tea Party events in the last year, Alex? (Emphasis/formatting mine) The Tea Party. What is it? How long will it last? The longer I report on this the more I think that the answer is a) disgruntled Republicans b) as long as it takes Republicans to win back […]

Sarah Palin on Financial ‘Reform’

From her Facebook page:  The current debate over financial reform demonstrates what happens when political leaders react to a crisis with a raft of new regulations. First off, the people involved in writing government regulations are often lobbyists from the very industry that the new laws are supposed to regulate, and that’s been the case […]

Scott Adams Reveals
The Essence Of Progressivism

by Smitty Who owns the definitions, indeed, owns much: The flip side of this coin is that when the audience isn’t buying your Bacon Sandwich, the lack of factual backup can make things challenging.

(212) 767-8600

That’s the phone number for Comedy Central, and is among the contact information compiled by Chris Renner for the benefit of Americans outraged by the imposition of dhimmitude on “South Park.”

The Surprise Return of Blago-Gate!

Incomplete redaction of a Chicago subpoena for the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial reveals some unseemly — and perhaps criminal — actions by Team Obama: Obama may have lied about conversations with convicted fraudster Tony Rezko . . . Obama may have overtly recommended Valerie Jarret for his Senate seat . . . A supporter of […]

Your Tax Dollars at Work Wank

SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, […]

Go and Do Thou Likewise

“Robert Stacy McCain is on my RSS reader so I never miss any of the craziness . . .” That’s liberal “Dougj” at Balloon Juice, reacting to my American Spectator blog post about Mark Levin’s evisceration of Jim Manzi. Getting linked by liberals, of course, brings the troll commenters, including “D Aristophanes” of the Sadly No blog, who […]

Dick Cheney Tidbits

by Smitty The Cheney endorsement of Marco Rubio is heartening. Maybe the former VP can take a few more of the progressive GOP old guard hunting, or something. Via Alan Colmes, we also have word of an appearance on Dennis Miller’s radio show, where Cheney recalled a famous encounter with Senator Leahy: A chance meeting […]

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