The Other McCain

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

Wedding Day

My 21-year-old daughter, Kennedy Catherine McCain, is getting married at 10 a.m. today to Martin, which means that my attempts to bribe the couple into eloping have failed. When I saw this headline, I misunderstood for a second and thought the judge had ruled weddings unconstitutional but . . . Several months ago, I remember being told that this […]

Former US Ambassador To Bulungi: ‘That South Korean Ship Explosion Was Prolly Cuz Of Crazed Glenn Beck Fans’

by Smitty Chad Halpern, Former Ambassador to Bulungi, recently returned from, you know, hanging out on Tioman for a few years. The lure? One of those recess appointments, this one to the UN. “We gotta help out the Obama Administration, dude. These Republicans are a bunch of dicks, blocking all these important jobs and all,” […]

The Roberts Court Will No Doubt Give The 6th Month Drilling Moratorium A Good Listen

by Smitty Mighty Michelle Malkin echo’s Yahoo’s report that the 5th Circuit told the White House to talk to the hand on the ban. She also notes: . . .it’s reportedly too late for some companies that are already moving rigs and workers overseas for projects. Really, if the Administration can’t just decapitate the Gulf […]

Does This Work As A Metaphor For This Congress And Administration?

by Smitty (via HuffPo) It looks to be a proper board, but the pack of goof on it, headed downhill with no safety gear or reasonable means of managing the thing, bring Nancy, Harry and Barry to mind: I’m not too sure if ABBA works as a proper soundtrack for the 111th Congress and the […]

Which Is Better for the Economy: Getting a Job or Collecting Unemployment?

When Nancy Pelosi declared that unemployment compensation “creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name,” most people laughed at this obvious affront to common sense. Yet considering that common sense doesn’t seem to be all that common — Nancy Pelosi is, after all, Speaker of the House — it’s nice to have someone explain […]

What If Glenn Beck Said This?

“I think of Obama’s politics as entirely cultural. It is about creating the new America, epitomized by Barack Obama’s racially mixed radicalism. It is about banishing the Bush-Cheney years by celebrating the man hired to destroy the Constitution. It is about dreaming of a new America — the America transformed by the New Deal, by mass immigration of non-whites, by the civil […]

‘The Unfortunately Named Contessa’

That’s how Andrew Breitbart always refers to MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, who complained in an interview with Media Bistro about how hard it is to interviewing guests who “come on and they are prepared to be challenging and to be difficult.” In another segment from the same interview, Brewer says it makes her “crazy” when blogs point […]

Markos Wants Some Cheese

To go with that whine: In case you were wondering why you haven’t seen me on MSNBC recently, it seems that Joe Scarborough, he of the lowest rated morning show in cableland, has blackballed me. And Phil Griffin, the alleged president of MSNBC, is going along with it. (Via Memeorandum.) Did Moulitsas ever mock MSNBC’s […]

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