The Other McCain

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

Mistress, Actress, Heroine

by Smitty (via Insty) Amidst an excellent review of Nikki Haley’s campaign to govern South Carolina, Walter Shapiro says, emphasis mine: Haley, in her first statewide campaign, has proven a master of boomerang politics – making every attack seem like a vindication of her conservative populist outrage. Shouldn’t that be “a mistress”? I don’t mean […]

Marvin Isley, R.I.P.

He shall bring da funk no more. Bass player for the fabulous Isley Brothers, dead of diabetes, age 56.

News, Weak

The bidding for Newsweek hasn’t been exactly eager: [S]ome Newsweek staffers . . . describe the mood as ranging from stunned to funereal to angry — the latter emotion fueled by a sense that Editor Jon Meacham erred badly by transforming the newsweekly into an upscale, left-leaning opinion magazine. Meacham has said that in the […]

When A Man Claims To Be ‘Sooooo Over Woman X‘, He Is Really A Beta Male Going On Gamma

by Smitty Dan Riehl is looking even more hapless than the TrogloPundit. Look at the forced bravado on display: I draw the line of hotness around sammiches. I mean, she does say she’d bring them if asked. But truly hot wimmens intuit such things. ‘Lines of hotness’? ‘Sammiches’? Also, he says he’s so hot as […]

Obamanomics: Still Not Working

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost another 115 points Monday, after losing 324 points on Friday, for a two-day loss of 439 points (4.3%) — and a cumulative loss of 1,389 points (12.4%) since April 26. In short, if your 401(k) is mainly in stocks, you’ve lost about 1/8th of that money in about six weeks. The […]

Stimulus We Can Support: Paying The Piper

by Smitty Although Stacy and I are still Waiting for O-Dough, an alternate revenue stream may become available, as reported by CNSNews: Forget the astronomical joke bill, and focus on the bottom line. I’ve been a piper for nearly twenty years: Right now I’m working to get my pudgy body back into shape and also […]

Helen Thomas Retires

Dateline, Treblinka: Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately, in the wake of a controversy over her comments on Israel, according to a report from her employer, Hearst News Service. Thomas told a rabbi at a White House event last week that Jews should “get the hell out […]

Officer, Arrest That Dopehead

When a guy thinks he can dictate to the Tea Party movement . . . Well, obviously, Jeffrey Miron is on drugs: [D]rug prohibition is hopelessly inconsistent with allegiance to free markets, regardless of the level of government. Free markets should mean both that businesses can operate as they please and that individuals can purchase […]

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