The Other McCain

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

M Is For Machiavelli

by Smitty My addition to this fun project in bold: So let’s create a children’s song titled “The DEMOCRAT Anthem.” I started with D and Rudolph Carrera answered with E. D is for double standards: our flags wave proudly in the westerly breeze. . . E is for enemy: they willingly side with idiots and […]

Surprise: ‘The Treasury Department Claims That Fannie Mae . . . Screwed Up’

How effective is the Obama administration’s program to help people with mortgage problems? The answer is, we have no freaking clue: The Obama administration has revised its latest monthly report on its signature foreclosure-prevention plan, deleting a heavily-criticized performance metric used to measure whether assisted homeowners are re-defaulting on their taxpayer-financed mortgages. The Treasury Department claims that […]

What Does The Instapundit Have Against Joe Satriani?

by Smitty “AS LONG AS IT’S NOT ICE IX” says the Instapundit. This blog comes out strongly in defense of the track: Now, granted, it’s not the jazz odyssey seen on Cool #9, but still. . . OK, he was probably alluding to this.

Rick Pitino Discovers the Unsurprising Hazards of Screwing Crazy Women

When you’re a famous basketball coach hired for a new job, perhaps the orientation process should require that you watch a video called, “Crazy Women and Your Penis: A Bad Combination.” It is fair to stipulate that any woman who offers sexual favors to a man she just met is crazy. And when she starts doing you under the table […]

David Horowitz Runs Pro-Israel Ad on Olbermann Show; Kos Kids Freak Out

“David Horowitz’ ‘Thirty-seconds’ on MSNBC this evening is the most despicable paid ad I believe I’ve ever seen. And I saw it on Countdown, Keith Olbermann’s show.” — “eztempo,” Daily Kos, July 26 If a devoted Olbermann viewer thinks it’s “despicable,” you know it’s gotta be 31 flavors of pure awesomeness. Via David Swindle at […]

Predictably, Judge Blocks Common-Sense Law Favored by 70% of Arizona Voters

Did anyone expect otherwise? A federal judge has blocked one of the most controversial sections of a tough Arizona immigration law, granting a preliminary injunction Wednesday that prevents police from questioning people about their immigration status. That provision required police to “make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained […]

Apparently Santorum Hasn’t Read Codevilla

by Smitty Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, mulling a presidential run, says Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, a potential 2012 primary foe, is indulging in “class-warfare” rhetoric. . . . “I’m not a class-warfare guy,” Santorum tells National Review Online in reaction to Pawlenty’s remarks. “That’s the Democrats’ gig. They like to divide and play […]

Get Bent, Ezra Klein

by Smitty Ezra speaks in the comPost, emphsis mine: The constitutional option gets its name from Article I, Section V of the Constitution, which states that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.” In order to fulfill this constitutional order, the Senate must be able to, well, determine its rules. A filibuster, technically, […]

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