The Other McCain

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

How SPLC Hypes the Hate

Dangerous extremist militias taking over America? The Southern Poverty Law Center reports “an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) – a 244% jump” from 2008. OK, so let’s ask a question: How does the SPLC get these numbers? […]

How Doomed Is Charlie Crist?

Even Salon.com has noticed that Charlie is toast: In February 2009, Crist embraced, both figuratively and literally, President Barack Obama when Obama came to Florida to tout the economic stimulus package that had not yet become law. At the time, both Obama’s and Crist’s favorability ratings were high in Florida. . . . Crist’s opponents […]

Coffee Party: Yeah, We Can Backronym The Beaners

by Smitty Fishersville Mike, fellow Virginian and backronym fetishist, starts the festivities, and has quite a serviceable outing. My offering is slightly less charitable: Can Only Find Festivity in Effete Emuluation I can’t add much to Legal Insurrection and American Power’s floggings of the Coffee Party. It rather makes sense that the slack-jawed left would […]

Fake Hate Update: ‘Minority’ Student Confesses to UCSD Noose Hoax

An increasingly familiar type of liberal campus activism: The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation. The noose’s discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged […]

MSM Promoting Parasite Annabel Park

A former New York Times “strategy analyst” attempts to create a left-wing clone of the Tea Party movement and — surprise! — gets gushy write-ups from both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Professor William Jacobson exposes Annabel Park for the deceptive phony she is. Remind me of this the next time Nancy Pelosi starts […]

Unemployed? Either Get Used to It — or Get Smart and Get Going!

Megan McArdle points out something about our “jobless recovery” that should be obvious, but isn’t: Programmer jobs that once demanded anyone with a pulse and a C++ manual now require that you also have at least three years of experience designing websites for a fast food multinational, speak fluent Tajik, and be proficient in hacky […]

Is ‘Whore’ Too Strong a Word for Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington?

Not according to Sissy Willis, who dubs Arianna “George Soros’s whore” based on an American Thinker column by Kyle-Ann Shiver: In the lead-up to the Shadow Conventions, Time magazine did a piece on Ms. Huffington’s newfound love for liberal politics which hinted at Soros’s shadow influence, naming him as the convention’s largest individual donor and noting […]

Dennis Prager, Charles Johnson and Understanding the Left’s Smear Tactics

While I responded jocularly when Dennis Prager’s column was first published, a reader e-mailed today to suggest that maybe Prager would actually like to discuss this at greater length, so I sent this e-mail to Prager’s producer, Allen Estrin: Dear Mr. Estrin: In his Jan. 26 syndicated column, Dennis Prager responded to Charles Johnson (Little […]

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