The Other McCain

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

Olby, Matthews, Fineman Notice That Obama’s Rhetoric Is Kind of Nebulous

I did not watch President Obama’s Big Spill speech Tuesday night because (a) I was busy on something else and (b) I can’t stand to watch Democrats talk policy. It’s annoying enough to listen to Republicans talk policy, but Democrats are so reliably 100% wrong that there is no point watching unless I just want to feel angry. And with my […]

Where Is Your Gallows Humor? Alvin Greene For President In 2012!

by Smitty (h/t No Quarter) Stacy thought it may have been raaaaacism. Jon Stewart didn’t think so, as he sent up the Alvin Greene story: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

A Baseball Theory

by Smitty Baseball Crank has a post entitled “BASEBALL: Year of the Slightly Better Pitcher” While out in Idaho, we grilled some steaks. A rancher friend was over, and I alluded to the stolen third perfect game of the year. Out of nowhere, the fellow outs himself as a tremendous baseball fan, praising it as […]

Curb Your Vice President

Global warming is a crisis, but evidently not such a huge crisis that a guy can’t take a few minutes to screw around: Al Gore’s split from wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage was a shock to everyone who thought theirs was the ideal marriage. . . . (Who is this “everyone” who thought […]

Census Worker Murdered

When a Census worker was found dead in Kentucky last year, Rick Ungar proclaimed “Send the Body to Glenn Beck” and Andrew Sullivan suspected “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts.” Bill Sparkman’s death turned out to be suicide. So, who’s to blame for killing Census workers now? A […]

How Freedom Died

Incredible:  The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant” new burdens onto employees — a considerable penalty that would […]

Pamela Geller Triumphs!

You recall the weekend uproar over PayPal’s attempt to cancel Pamela Geller’s account. Well, Monday morning CAIR issued a press release celebrating their apparent victory. And then . . . A PayPal excecutive called Pamela Geller to explain that it had all been a big misunderstanding — and Pamela then issued her own press release. […]

Nikki Haley Leads Big

Rasmussen says she’s looking good: State Representative Nikki Haley is running stronger than her Republican Primary runoff opponent in the general election for South Carolina’s first open gubernatorial race since 1994 . . . Haley fell just short of 50% support in last Tuesday’s primary race. She and [U.S. Rep. Gresham] Barrett will face off in a […]

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