The Other McCain

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

VIDEO: Tea Party Speaker Declares, ‘I Don’t Care If They Call Me an Extremist’

Notice that Lt. Col. Allen West wore a Gadsden Flag — “Don’t Tread on Me!” — T-shirt at this weekend’s Ft. Lauderdale Tea Party rally: It’s all great, but the money quote is at 2:27: “Let me tell you: I don’t care if Ron Klein’s office calls me a radical. I don’t care if they […]

Worst Side Effect of Recession? Endless Plague of Perpetual Grad Students

OK, this is a pet peeve of mine from way back. When I was in college in the late ’70s and early ’80s, there was a distinct group of hippie leftovers who hung around the campus pub a lot while, supposedly, working on their master’s degrees. They didn’t seem particularly smart or studious. Rather, they struck me as having fallen in love with the […]

The Lockerbie Punchline

by Smitty The blogosphere has been reacting to the news that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, could survive another couple of decades. BlogProf has a great clip that casts dhimmi Justice Kenny MacAskill’s craven words back into Braveheart for a William Wallace reaction. Ace has hate in his heart, but no flaming […]

The New Ten Buck Friday Poll Is Up

by Smitty The Lonely Conservative has the details. My local hopeful, Patrick Murray, is on this one, though going against Gentleman Jim Moran is going to be a tough slog. Also Birchtree Sustainable Studios has a fine piece of patriotic art on offer, suitable for just about any American occasion. Check it out. Update: the […]

D Is for ‘Dumb’ and ‘Detroit’

“Otis Mathis was a D-student in high school, went to Wayne State University in a program for the academically unqualified, sued for his degree because he couldn’t pass a basic English test, became a community organizer, and eventually was unanimously elected President of the School Board . . .”

Perversity of the Euro-Left:
‘Sexual Liberation’ for Children

From the German magazine Spiegel: It has since faded into obscurity, but the members of the 1968 movement and their successors were caught up in a strange obsession about childhood sexuality. It is a chapter of the movement’s history which is never mentioned in the more glowing accounts of the era. On this issue, the […]

Does Not Caring About The Country Correlate With Thuggery?

by Smitty If patriotism means caring about your country, then what does this CNSNews story tell us? Conservatives are more than twice as likely as liberals to express very strong patriotism, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll in which 48 percent of conservatives said they were “extremely patriotic,” but only 19 percent of liberals […]

My Chance Meeting With Charles Bolden

by Smitty This is one of those moments when you wish you kept a journal. It seemed that the tragic death of three Midshipmen in 1994 was the occasion for being in the Chapel of the Navy for a memorial service, and finding myself standing next to then-Colonel Bolden, the Dep. ‘Dant. What I mostly […]

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