The Other McCain

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

Barack Obama Elementary School

Via Inside Charm City: The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George’s County. Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly “green” […]

Joe Miller Didn’t Give Me Bloggola

Six weeks ago, I reported about Joe Miller’s Senate campaign in Alaska, and yesterday Ace of Spades endorsed Miller. Thanks to the Daily Caller, Ace now finds it necessary to point out that he didn’t do it for money: I got annoyed when the Tea Party Express kept asking me to promote Joe Miller. I know they […]

Tucker Carlson Says, ‘Hit the Tip Jar’?

It was kind of weird to see myself quoted in a Daily Caller story with the headline, “True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash“: Conservative blogger Robert Stacy McCain complains that politicians aren’t purchasing more advertising on blogs. “Advertising buys good will,” he says. That complaint was in response to something reporter […]

Moe Lane Interviews Mattie Fein

At Red State:

‘We May Be Incompetent, But We Are
All You Have Got’ Is An Increasingly Feckless Argument

by Smitty (h/t Insty) Conglomerate Blog has a doom-tastic post about how New Jersey is being sued by the SEC for creating a situation where bond investors were not provided adequate information to evaluate the state’s ability to fund the pensions or assess their impact on the state’s financial condition. How can this be a […]

Pamela Geller and the Scandalous
Bikini of Right-Wing Extremism

Evidently taking their cue from the Washington Post, now the British Guardian has decided that the most newsworthy thing about conservative blogger Pamela Geller is that she has been seen in public in a swimsuit: Pamela Geller is on a mission to save the free world and she’s doing it, on this occasion, in a […]

Unsure About Barney Frank’s Conversion

by Smitty Conservative Girl puts a religious spin on Frank’s awakening, but let’s not overplay this quotation: “I hope by next year we’ll have abolished Fannie and Freddie,….it was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn’t afford and couldn’t really handle once they had it….I had been too sanguine about Fannie […]

That Long Roman Catholic Memory

by Smitty Your attention is drawn to Lisa Graas, over in News Reel Blog, who has a lengthy post concerning Roman Catholic records of that soft, fuzzy, warm Cordoba period in Spanish history currently peddled by GZM proponents: Is the imam telling the truth? Catholic history indicates a different picture. According to our records, things […]

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