The Other McCain

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

My Bagpipe Teacher Would Not Approve

by Smitty (h/t Kottke) As someone who occasionally gets some time on the instrument, I can appreciate the playing here, to a degree: The fingering is articulate at ludicrous speed, and the peel-offs are way beyond my own meager skill. However, one is officially required to assume a reactionary stance about any non-traditional pieces on […]

Me: These Federal Entitlements Are As Realistic As A Unicycle With A Kickstand

by Smitty Lefty: Easily done.   Me: Well, scratch that analogy. Wait. It’s got no pedals. Lefty: Bush. Me: I thought you had a reality-based argument there, momentarily. Update: And what’s in my reader? A link that gets us to “Scary Wage Data II — Social Security Changes Its Numbers“: Removing the phony W-2s reduced […]

Miracle Comeback: Ann Marie Buerkle Now Has Slim Lead in NY-25

Oh, my goodness. This was a Republican candidate I covered during my road trip with Da Tech Guy, but I’d written off this district as lost last night. Incumbent Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei had already declared victory. But today Left Coast Rebel proclaimed the good news: Ann Marie Buerkle has come back to a 659-vote lead, thanks to late returns […]

Dear Ace: ‘A Choice, Not an Echo’

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — OK, after the last post, I promised I was going to go back to sleep, but somebody in the comments said that Ace of Spades was “bitching and moaning . . . that the tea party cost us DE et al.” Because I didn’t see the aforesaid bitching and moaning, I can’t address […]

On Supporting Long-Shot Candidates

by Smitty I’ve not the slightest misgiving about supporting my local candidate, Col. Patrick Murray (USA-Ret), against Jim Moran, who enjoyed one of the more comfortable margins yesterday evening. Murray is an exemplary American. One might say otherwise of Jim Moran. If you’re not in the game, your loss is self-fulfilling. It was genuinely fun. […]

My Apologies to the Optimists

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — When I left Boca Raton at 3 a.m., I’d hoped to make it to the vicinity of Orlando before finding a cheap motel to crash in. But I was so tired and brain-fogged, I only made it a few dozen miles up I-95 before I began to get that nodding-off feeling, so […]

What Liberals Never Learn

After winning in Kentucky last night, Rand Paul was talking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who dutifully repeated a Democrat talking point: “What if they just raised taxes on the richest, those making more than 250,000 dollars a year?” In answering the question, Paul invoked a basic argument against class warfare as an economic policy: We […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.03.10

TOP NEWS House Passes To GOP Control; Seats Added In Senate At least 60 seats projected to turn Republican in the House; Rubio, Paul, Coats, Hoeven, Boozman projected to win Senate seats Why Do Euro Lefties Hate The Tea Party? I smell FEAR! Over 100 Killed In Multiple Bomb Attacks On Baghdad Shiite Neighborhoods Al-Qaeda […]

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