The Other McCain

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

Interesting Point From Across The Pond

by Smitty Daniel Hannan, British MEP, pondering US independence: Thomas Jefferson, whose bust stares at me as I write this blog, had wanted to include a touching phrase in the Declaration, but his fellow authors excised it: “We might have been a great and free people together”. Indeed. Everything I have done in politics has […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Independence Day brings forth the patriotic in Rule 5. Patriotic bikinis abound! The Camp of the Saints Mind Numbed Robot Nation of Cowards Right, Wing-Nut! Three Beers Later Power and Control GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD BlogProf celebrates independence with a field, a lady, and pump action rifle. American Power went on a bit of […]

Jimmie Bise Jr. Explains Why Economic Freedom Makes America Great

“Now, those of us who get the origin of wealth understand that prosperity only happens when people own the fruits of their labor. The principle that what you produce belongs to you and you have the absolute right to dispose of it as you wish is the cornerstone of all the wealth and wonders created […]

Gulf Cleanup Pussy Just Pluckered Out

by Smitty (via HotAir) We heard Anderson Cooper’s tale of woe regarding the mostly opaque level of transparency set by the Hopium and Changeeba Administration. Reacting quickly, and noting that the 65′ First Amendment FTW zone applies to humans, we dispached Sissypuss the Blog Kitty. Sissypuss, we discovered, had been hanging around Philadelphia, thinking to […]

Immigration, Assimilation and Sovereignty

Michelle Malkin writes about “the unhyphenated, the law-abiding, the gratitude-filled sons and daughters and grandchildren of legal immigrants” and supplies a  brief history of the Founding Fathers’ views on immigration and assimilation. As I’ve often said, the way liberals (including some Republicans who think they’re conservative) talk about immigration, you might get the idea that Emma Lazarus […]

Alabama Tea Party Activist Suspects Corruption in $50 Million Contract

Martha Roby is the GOP establishment’s pick for the nomination in Alabama’s 2nd District congressional race against “Blue Dog” Democrat Rep. Bobby Bright. She fell short of a majority in the June 1 primary and got pushed into July 13 runoff by Tea Party-backed candidate Rick Barber. And it looks like Roby’s friends in Montgomery […]

Fitting Military Jeremiad Refreshingly Accurate

by Smitty Captain Hegseth, via Daley Gator, cuts through the fog of Postmodernism besetting Americans supporting reform: The good Captain concisely and more clearly states what I tried to communicate in various posts: start with the Constitution and move to the nominee. Do not merely assert, through some Congressional deference, that anyone this particular POTUS […]

A. +/- Umpteen Eleventy

Q. What was the statistical margin of error on DailyKos polls for the past two years? Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos has sued his polling company, Research 2000 (R2K, for short), alleging that the firm supplied “fraudulent” data. Daily Kos has produced a report that seems to indicate R2K was just making up numbers. I say “seems […]

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