The Other McCain

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

AIG’s $100 Billion I.O.U.

Good luck collecting on this one: A watchdog panel reviewing the bailout of American International Group Inc. said U.S. taxpayers “remain at risk for severe losses” and that the government didn’t act aggressively enough to protect U.S. taxpayers during the 2008 rescue. In a lengthy report, the bipartisan Congressional Oversight Panel concluded that the U.S. […]

Kagan’s Clone Wars

They’re not dead babies, they’re just clumps of cells: White House memos from 1997, when Elena Kagan was a top domestic policy advisor to President Clinton, show that Kagan — nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama — recommended that the Clinton administration permit cloning of human embryos for research purposes. Writing just months after Scottish […]

NRA Endorses John McCain, Prompts Outrage Among Membership

 Barbara Espinosa is furious at the NRA sell-out: Yesterday we posted the endorsements U.S. Senate candidate J. D. Hayworth received from former NRA President Bob Corbin and from the Gun Owners of America. Yet the NRA, which has previously referred to John McCain as “one of the premier flag carriers for the enemies of the […]

They’re Real and They’re . . .

. . . Sarah Palin’s? A misogynistic liberal Web site began speculating about the possibility of artificial enhancement, which prompted an indignant response from a leading conservative authority on impressive authenticity, Tabitha Hale: If this were only on Wonkette’s site, I would never have seen it. I don’t exactly frequent there. However, the story picked up some […]

Dan Riehl: Yes And Yes

by Smitty UPDATE: minor grammatical edit. Dan Riehl says that ‘Smitty Is Short-Sighted And Confused‘. It is true that I am myopic, and, yes, his muddled point did throw me. If I meant the GOP, I would have written it. The Right is a very different thing. OK, fine. I suppose, given the following fragments […]

‘Patriot Majority PAC’ Is Neither Patriotic Nor Are They a Majority: Discuss

A “union-backed slush fund,” as Kyle Drennen called them in March. I’d never heard of them before, but when their ad bashing Republican Nevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle showed up in rotation on my blog, I decided to find out. Among other things, Patriot Majority PAC claims to “support our troops” and “patriotic policies,” but who do […]

I Fail To See How Twitter Can ‘Hurt’
The GOP

by Smitty Dan Riehl seems concerned about the viability of Twitter as a communications channel this Fall, and especially in the 2012 contest. There is a saying among SpecOps guys: ‘Two is one and one is none.’ Going into the 2010 and 2012 contests without a multi-channel comms plan for GOTV efforts will be roughly […]

‘Here Come Da Judge’

by Smitty The lads at iOwnTheWorld, in a desperate effort to help the unemployment numbers, have offered me a job as a contest judge: Headlines For Major World Events… If It Was Strictly A Liberal World Example: Construction Halted on Hadrian’s Wall Pending Environmental Impact Study or Oppressed Mexicans Defeat Imperialists at Alamo Head over […]

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