The Other McCain

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

The Price of Press-Corps Fellatio

Ed Driscoll calls our attention to this interesting media dynamic: Every reporter in the White House press corps is writing a book promising “inside access” to the Obama administration, which bends the supply-demand curve for such access. Reporters are being required to provide fawning “blow job” coverage and then wait their turn for access. So don’t be surprised by the lack […]

If You Can’t Bedazzle With Brains, Baffle With Bacon Sandwich

by Smitty (via C0MM1TT3D on Twitter) Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package. “We are overtaxed as it is,” Doris said […]

DailyKos Poll Puts McCain Over Hayworth

by Smitty (via Lucianne) The Daily Caller reports that a DailyKos poll puts McCain over Hayworth in the Arizona Republican Senate Primary race. The lack of detail makes the entire exercise sketchy, and the final DC quotation even moreso: The liberal site put it this way: “The bottom line? The Democrats become competitive, if Hayworth […]

Normblog Profiles Fausta

by Smitty How can you do anything but admire the lady? What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to disseminate? > The moral benefits of capitalism. What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to combat? > Communism in all its incarnations. Can you name a work of non-fiction which has had […]

Harpoon Him!

Damned whale-hugger:  An anti-whaling activist has been indicted in Tokyo for illegally boarding the Shonan Maru II, a Japanese harpoon boat, as part of a protest against a whale hunting expedition in Antarctic seas. Peter Bethune, a 44 year old activist from New Zealand, “was indicted on Friday for trespassing, causing injuries, obstructing commercial activities, […]

How About A Union of Liberty-Conscious Americans?

by Smitty The ULCA, i.e. ACLU spelled backwards, could be founded by lawyers who grasp the Constitution, and help defend American civil liberties in a manner that actual Americans find intelligible. Just a thought, echoed by one President to whom BHO is never compared: “The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national […]

Who Is Brent Budowsky, and Why Should Anybody Care What He Thinks?

To answer the first question, Budowsky is a former Democratic Capitol Hill aide, but I don’t know that there is any valid answer to the second question, as Budowsky slags Matt Drudge in The Hill: Let me suggest here that Drudge’s power may turn out to be more of a curse than a blessing for […]

Obama’s New Low

He’s heading toward the dreaded Carter Zone: President Obama’s overall job approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 44 percent, down five points from late March, just before the health bill’s passage in the House of Representatives. It’s down 24 points since his all-time high last April. Forty-one percent of those polled said […]

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