The Other McCain

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

‘Liberal Ethics’ and Matthew Yglesias

By Any Means Necessary: Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias likes to call his political opponents “dishonest,” but in a revealing exchange on the website Twitter Friday he advocated lying for political purposes. “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias. The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, […]

Slight FMJRA Delay

by Smitty I’m off to support my local candidate, Patrick Murray, in the Retire Jim Moran effort. Will get the FMJRA finalized and posted early this afternoon. You’re encouraged to submit links if it looks like my flawed system for crediting our awesome readers is flawed to the point of having flaws. Remember: it’s important […]

California Reporter Nick Green Says He Is ‘Victim of an Andrew Breitbart Wannabe’

“So imagine my surprise today to find I’m the victim of an Andrew Beitbart wannabe, a blogger with a clear agenda of his own who has decided in his hypocrisy I have one of my own.” — Nick Green, Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze He’s the victim, you see. Nick Green was just minding his own […]

How Much Contempt Will Americans Suffer?

by Smitty BHO, ‘unexpectedly’, does about the worst possible thing he could do on a given topic, in this case endorsing the Ground Zero Mosque. If there is any interest in expressing remorse for the 9/11 fallen, I’d suggest building two inter-faith community centers, with styling similar to the destroyed structures. One in Mecca, the […]

Socialist Opiates Are Addictive Indeed

by Smitty The Tenth Amendment Center reprints a fine overview of the Social Security disaster: If the words “general welfare” and “United States” are put in their proper context, then the general welfare provision grants Congress the power “[t]o lay and collect Taxes… to provide for the… group well being of all the United States.” […]

Da Tech Guy Interviews Mattie Fein

The local newspaper can’t be bothered, but she scores big with New Media: “There are serious issues in the district and the voters deserve the issues on the table.” Read the whole thing. Remember it was Da Tech Guy who loaned me the Famous Fedora of Objectivity, which made another celebrity appearance today: Yeah, Mattie Fein has […]

California Reporter to Republican Candidate: ‘We’re Not Interested’

A reporter for the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze sent an e-mail to a political consultant saying the newspaper is “not interested” in covering Republican candidate Mattie Fein, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Jane Harman in California’s 36th District. In the e-mail sent Wednesday (see text below), Daily Breeze reporter Nick Green told consultant John S. […]

California: Land of Witch Doctors

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — “Natural” medicine is big on the Left Coast, and what’s more natural than sexual assault? Gardena police arrested a self-described witch doctor on Wednesday on suspicion of groping at least two women or girls. Rigoberto Padilla Carranza, 53, was arrested at his Gardena business — Productos Naturales Rigo at 2210 Marine […]

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