The Other McCain

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

After A Brief ‘Reagan Tribute’ On
The Couch, Thoughts Return To
‘Restoring Honor’

by Smitty First, one should offer some shouts to fellow bloggers: Sorry to the TD of the Washington Rebel that my phone battery ran out, and we couldn’t get back together. The informal gathering at the Army and Navy Club with Wombat Rampant, which transitioned to the ever-tasty Shelly’s Backroom, and a conversation that we […]

Forgotten Victims of Sharptonism: Remembering Yankel Rosenbaum

“Al Sharpton is a professional bigot. During his long career the Reverend has incited two anti-Semitic pogroms; the Crown Heights riot and the firebombing of the Jewish-owned Freddy’a Fashion Mart in Harlem. Each of the Sharpton-incited pogroms resulted in deaths, but now for some unknown reason Reverend Al believes he is the caretaker of religious […]

Sarah Palin at Restoring Honor Rally

The world’s biggest Facebook page provides full text of her speech at Glenn Beck’s event in Washington, D.C.: In cities and towns across our country, you’ll find monuments to brave Americans wearing the uniforms of wars from long ago, and look down at their inscriptions, you’ll see that they were so often dedicated by mothers. […]

Watch Out, Smitty: Rev. Al Sharpton and Code Pink Are Heading Your Way!

While Smitty is blogging from the Reflecting Pool, Al Sharpton is leading a march from Dunbar High School that is being live-blogged by The Washington Post‘s Krissah Thompson, a few excerpts of which are illustrative: Joyce White arrived at a what she called a counter-march to Fox News host Glenn Beck’s rally. She came to remember the […]

Restoring Honor: Thank You, Warriors

by Smitty REFLECTING POOL, WASHINGTON, DC–It’s an hour into the Restoring Honor event. What a great undertaking. This is a great exercise in American Exceptionalism. Beck’s religiosity is right out front, but mostly ecumenical. While no mention is made of anyone in office, one wonders if the monitors carry the word ‘Faith’ to nearby residences, […]

Great Moments In Navigation: ‘Restoring Honor’ Edition

Smitty:   Are you sure this is where the Restoring Honor event was supposed to be? Skippy:   Well, it’s what I read in a comment on a post somewhere on the DailyKos. . . Guess it’s time to get moving if we’re to make the Mall.

Fantastic: Murkowski Judas-ery Roils Alaska

by Smitty This week’s FMJRA is in awe of Lisa Murkowsk’s commitment to career over service. FMJRA has obtained a slightly technical document from WikiIncontinence describing what looks to be her overall plan for victory in the primary and Alaska Senate race: Murkowski’s Inequality. We don’t fully understand it, either, and will rely upon our […]

Thank You, Desert Renegade

Sitting here near midnight, I was feeling bummed out — lower than a snake’s belly — over this: Friday afternoon Mrs. Other McCain said, “Oh, Jim just called — you need to go pick up the part for the car.” This required a trip across town to a machine shop, where my 17-year-old son had […]

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