The Other McCain

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

The Army of Davids: ‘All Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen’

From my latest column at The American Spectator: The prime congressional target for Alabama’s Republicans is Rep. Bobby Bright, whose 2nd District encompasses the Wiregrass region where Odom’s group has become a force to be reckoned with, as has the Wetumpka Tea Party, led by Eric and Becky Gerritson. The anti-establishment mood represented by the […]

Stimulus Pussy Thankful For Job Creation

by Smitty (h/t Knowledge is Power) By the power of Keynes and the make-work fallacy, this cat, Sissypuss, is employed. New advances / relaxations in requirements for the geo-location (this job is in a non-existent district in the 54th state), and species (the cat’s staff swears she has the personality of Barbara Boxer combined with […]

Representative Murtha: May The Almighty Have Mercy

by Smitty The WSJ notes the political fight for the house seat in his wake. The article makes no mention of a preferred Tea Party candidate to support, in our usual Progressivism-sucks fashion.

For Those Who Missed The Alabama Reporting

by Smitty In case you’ve missed Stacy’s ongoing quest for Southern comfort, Caught Him With A Corndog, in shameless, recreational obedience to Rule #1, graciously gathered the goods for your convenience. If you take a pause from your snow shoveling exertions to consider the tip jar, then that will help the Wandering Journalist find his […]

Agitprop for A**holes

“It’s quite a stretch to call The Nation’s Max Blumenthal a journalist. Blumenthal . . . is an ethically challenged agitprop creator and self-indulgent performance artist.” — Matthew Vadum, “Max Blumenthal, Equal-Opportunity Hater”

Rule 5k ft.

by Smitty (h/t Drudge) A passenger boards in Philly for Frisco.  He goes nutty, and the plane has to divert to Pittsburgh: Why? The guy’s making a total ass of himself. Time for Rule 5 at 5,000 feet. The guy ends up being humiliated by a stewardess. Now, if it’s legal, fine. If the dope […]

VIDEO: GOP Candidate Rick Barber Talks Tea Parties, Pool Halls and Blue Dogs

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Pubs and alehouses like Tondee’s Tavern served as meeting places where colonists planned the American Revolution, and that tradition is being carried on by Tea Party activists in Alabama. Every Tuesday is “Patriot Night” at Montgomery’s Deja Vu Billiards, owned by Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber: By the way, describing Barber as a […]

Quote of the Day

by Smitty (h/t Kathryn Lopez) So as a lifelong Massachusetts Republican I appreciate the irony in these pictures. We sent Scott Brown to DC on Thursday and by the weekend hell really had frozen over.

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