The Other McCain

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

Tim Daniel Makes The Daily Caller Without JournoList Membership

by Smitty Tim Daniel, a.k.a. the Left Coast Rebel, has a solid piece in The Daily Caller, rounding up some of the wretched excess that is plaguing a local government near you. With no evidence of any kind, I sort of wonder how many of these outsized salary payments are, at least partially, going places […]

Christine O’Donnell Campaign Catches Fire, National Media Taking Notice

LAS VEGAS — In the three days ago since I reported on Christine O’Donnell’s grassroots conservative Senate challenge to Delaware RINO Mike Castle, more national media have been paying attention. Today, Kyle Peterson of the Daily Caller reports: Christine O’Donnell is going on the offensive in her bid for the Delaware Senate seat vacated by Vice […]

Right Online: ‘Pimp Your Website’

LAS VEGAS — The Right Online schedule this morning shows an 8:30 a.m. seminar called “Pimp Your Website: Taking It to the Next Level.” However, the person teaching that seminar is not the author of “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog.” Today’s seminar on “Blogging 101” is taught by Matt Lewis and the “Twitter […]

Morgan Freeman: Genius

by Smitty (h/t Maggie’s Farm) Emitting more wisdom in one minute than some jokers have in 18 months, or are likely to obtain in a full four years: The bogus narrative dies in the sunshine of silence.

Let Me Get This Straight: The Cart Is Not The Horse

by Smitty (via The Corner) In this paper, published in Economic Policy Journal, economists Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andre Zylberberg looked at the impact of public employment on overall labor-market performance. The authors use data for a sample of OECD countries from 1960 to 2000, and they find that, on average, the creation of […]

Athens Runaway Lands In Myrtle Beach, SC. Nikki Haley Blogging Ensues

by Smitty Our old blog buddy Jesse is chilling on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, an aerial photograph of which graces the masthead at his new digs, Right Turns Only. Starting off with a bang, Jesse catches us up on Democratic party tactics in the Gubernatorial race, where Nikki Haley toasted her GOP opponents to […]

So, When Ginsburg Retires. . .

by Smitty (h/t The Corner) Thanks to Lindsey Graham’s latest abdication of courage, the decay of the SCOTUS into a bowl of Progressive mush continues apace. NRO points to an NYT article on the Christian Legal Society suit against Hastings Law School, and Justice Ginsburg’s argument, that is truly disquieting: Part of the irony of […]

A Contrary Take On That Hypothetical McCain ’08 Victory

by Smitty (via Insty) The Daily Caller highlights a Quinnipiac poll finding a plurality believe the country would have been better off if John McCain had beaten Mr. Obama in 2008 It’s all counter-factual. While unemployment might be lower, budget deficits would certainly be lower, and several trees would likely have been spared being turned […]

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