The Other McCain

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

FMJRA Dénouement: Forsythia, Marigolds, Jasmine, Roses to All

by Smitty Thank you for the outpouring of well-wishing concerning the deployment. My mother called, and broke down at the sight of the volume and character of the well-wishings from the dextrosphere. If my departure was not the most-linked post in the blog’s history, it was easily Top 5: Cogadh No Sìth Common Sense Political […]

Sarah Palin and ‘Feminism’

“Certainly, no feminist can be expected to defend a conservative woman. To quote Palin-hating feminist Jessica Valenti, feminism is ‘a social justice movement,’ a radical ideology akin to Marxism.” — Robert Stacy McCain, June 3, 2010 As the originator of “National Offend a Feminist Week” — our motto: Equality Is For Ugly Losers — I […]

Team Obama: No Moderates Allowed

Democrat pollsters Doug Schoen and Patrick Caddell raised eyebrows by arguing that President Obama could end gridlock by announcing he would not seek re-election in 2012. This argument was premised on taking at face value Obama’s 2008 campaign message that he wanted to unite the country and transcend partisanship. My friend Seton Motley is not so naive: Obama ran […]

Keith Olbermann and Sam Francis

When it was revealed that Keith Olbermann had donated to Democratic candidates he had interviewed, I was not outraged: Being strictly a neutral, objective journalist myself — “Ethics, shmethics!” — I don’t think Olbermann should be fired from NBC, which is as about as neutral and objective as Pravda or the Daily Worker. No one […]

New Kinds of Crazy

When good old-fashioned lunacy seems a trifle boring — if traditional psychosis is just a tad on too ordinary for your taste — why not try a genuinely innovative form of insanity? On the morning of April 13, a foul odor brought police to Apartment B. It appeared that Gauthier had been the first to die, […]

Schadenfreude

Their misery makes me happy: After nearly two weeks of introspection, President Obama’s top advisers have concluded that the “shellacking” Democrats took on Election Day was caused in large part by their own failure to live up to expectations set during the 2008 campaign, not merely the typical political cycles and poor messaging they pointed […]

What Causes Islamophobia

Stuff like this: Make no mistake: The reason that 3-year-old Mandy Simon had to be searched by TSA is Islam — and the politically-correct insistence that, in Ed Morrissey’s phrase, “everyone must suffer equally” in airport security. UPDATE: Jeffrey Goldberg informs us that Nov. 24 is “National Opt-Out Day,” and urges people to (a) refuse […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.15.10

TOP NEWS Seven Killed, 20 Injured In Mexico Hotel Explosion Five Canadians among the dead; natural gas pocket blamed Netanyahu Backs U.S. Freeze Proposal Multi-billion dollar incentive package helps Rangel Ethics Hearing Begins Monday First public ethics hearing since Traficant in 2002 GOP Spoiling For A Fight On Healthcare But will control of the House […]

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