The Other McCain

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

Which Is Better for the Economy: Getting a Job or Collecting Unemployment?

When Nancy Pelosi declared that unemployment compensation “creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name,” most people laughed at this obvious affront to common sense. Yet considering that common sense doesn’t seem to be all that common — Nancy Pelosi is, after all, Speaker of the House — it’s nice to have someone explain […]

What If Glenn Beck Said This?

“I think of Obama’s politics as entirely cultural. It is about creating the new America, epitomized by Barack Obama’s racially mixed radicalism. It is about banishing the Bush-Cheney years by celebrating the man hired to destroy the Constitution. It is about dreaming of a new America — the America transformed by the New Deal, by mass immigration of non-whites, by the civil […]

‘The Unfortunately Named Contessa’

That’s how Andrew Breitbart always refers to MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, who complained in an interview with Media Bistro about how hard it is to interviewing guests who “come on and they are prepared to be challenging and to be difficult.” In another segment from the same interview, Brewer says it makes her “crazy” when blogs point […]

Markos Wants Some Cheese

To go with that whine: In case you were wondering why you haven’t seen me on MSNBC recently, it seems that Joe Scarborough, he of the lowest rated morning show in cableland, has blackballed me. And Phil Griffin, the alleged president of MSNBC, is going along with it. (Via Memeorandum.) Did Moulitsas ever mock MSNBC’s […]

Machiavellian, in a Good Way

“[I]f you yield to a threat, you do so in order to avoid war, and more often than not, you do not avoid war. For those before whom you have thus openly demeaned yourself by yielding, will not stop there, but will seek to extort further concessions, and the less they esteem you the more […]

You Go, Nancy!

by Smitty It takes a special kind of chutzpah to encourage people to do things that are not in their best interests. The Lonely Conservative points to the LiarSpeaker of the House, encouraging her doomed troops to go backing into their campaigns at high speed in a Ford Pinto with a full tank, singing the […]

Thanks, Buffett

by Smitty After I go to all that trouble defending you, you reveal yourself a total sycophant. What’s next, a Charlie Crist endorsement? The weather is here. Wish you were credible. Aside: I think I was supposed to eat some crow over Chuck DeVore’s non-triumph in the California primary. You may all point at me […]

Sudetenland: Are the Czechs Our Friends?

This is the question history professor Thaddeus Russell would have had Britons ask each other in 1938, when Neville Chamberlain sold out the Czechs to Hitler at Munich. Does Israel Make Us Safer? . . . Though many Americans think of Islamic terrorism against the U.S. as part of an inevitable “clash of cultures,” not […]

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