The Other McCain

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

D Is for ‘Dumb’ and ‘Detroit’

“Otis Mathis was a D-student in high school, went to Wayne State University in a program for the academically unqualified, sued for his degree because he couldn’t pass a basic English test, became a community organizer, and eventually was unanimously elected President of the School Board . . .”

Perversity of the Euro-Left:
‘Sexual Liberation’ for Children

From the German magazine Spiegel: It has since faded into obscurity, but the members of the 1968 movement and their successors were caught up in a strange obsession about childhood sexuality. It is a chapter of the movement’s history which is never mentioned in the more glowing accounts of the era. On this issue, the […]

Does Not Caring About The Country Correlate With Thuggery?

by Smitty If patriotism means caring about your country, then what does this CNSNews story tell us? Conservatives are more than twice as likely as liberals to express very strong patriotism, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll in which 48 percent of conservatives said they were “extremely patriotic,” but only 19 percent of liberals […]

My Chance Meeting With Charles Bolden

by Smitty This is one of those moments when you wish you kept a journal. It seemed that the tragic death of three Midshipmen in 1994 was the occasion for being in the Chapel of the Navy for a memorial service, and finding myself standing next to then-Colonel Bolden, the Dep. ‘Dant. What I mostly […]

Democrat Stimulus Drum Corps

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down more than 700 points since June 21, having lost more than 1,500 points (13.6%) from its late April peak at 11,205. The Dow closed Friday below 9,700 — a level not seen since early October 2009 — and talk of a “double-dip recession” is now far more common than […]

Is The Left Fretting The Kagan Confirmation?

by Smitty Update: See below, for Stanley Kutler playing a favorite old card. Let’s review Mark Greenbaum at Salon, and see what our purported post-term-of-the-week overlords might be saying on closed JournoLists. Summary: the fret level doesn’t seem too elevated, but the article has some nice digs, in any case. Members of Congress are rarely […]

VIDEO: 20lb Sledge ‘Right Wing Woman’

by Smitty Zo delights with a Rule 5, social conservative, delightfully funky groove: Go, Zo!

Charles Johnson Uses Twitter to Push ‘Racist’ Smear of Red State’s Josh Trevino

Joshua Trevino is a Texan, former Bush administration official and Republican political consultant. In 2004, he co-founded Red State along with Ben Domenech and Mike Krempasky. A couple of days ago, Trevino was named among the “Top 25 Conservatives on Twitter.” And it was just about then that Trevino and his colleagues began kicking around a Twitter meme, “I’ve […]

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