The Other McCain

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

Not Only Speech Therapy, But A Leadership Lesson

by Smitty This scene works not only from the standpoint of pedagogy, but also leadership. Would that the cool, thick-skinned control of the situation could be transferred to a few petulant politicians cluttering public office today.

After Squandering $12 Million in Campaign Cash, Charlie Crist Is Now Reduced to Role of Debate ‘Heckler’

Yeah, everybody and his dog has already posted that video, but I just couldn’t resist the opportunity to point out how completely Charlie Crist has screwed himself and the GOP Establishment. Less than 18 months ago, when Genius John Cornyn and the NRSC endorsed Crist — “Those treacherous bastards!” — polls showed Crist leading Rubio by […]

Yid With Lid, Unexpectedly, Discovers Debate Bias

by Smitty Wednesday night at the beginning of a debate between Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean, GOP challenger Joe Walsh and Green Party candidate Bill Scheurer. The debate for Illinois 8th congressional district took place at Grayslake Central High School. While League of Women Voters moderator Kathy Tate-Bradish began explaining the rules of the debate an […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.25.10

TOP NEWS Poll: Brown Has Double-Digit Lead Over Whitman LA Times/USC poll shows lead widening among women, Latinos Diarrhea Death Toll In Haiti Now Over 250 Did we say diarrhea? Oops. Definitely cholera. Definitely. Secret War At The Heart Of Wikileaks As Instapundit says, it’s clear that Julian Assange is a tool. But whose tool? […]

To Repeat: Beware of Polls!

Sunday morning, I noted Donald Douglas’s dissection of an L.A. Times poll that appears skewed toward Democrats.  Now, Tina Hemond gets inside the numbers in last week’s poll that showed Barney Frank leading by 12 points over Sean Bielat and argues that, in fact, the race in MA-4 is a statistical dead heat. Of course, we […]

The First Rule of Cliffs

It seems like eons ago, but actually it was only December 2008, when I examined the proposed neo-Keynesian economic agenda of the ascendant Democrats and said, “It Won’t Work.” Obamanomics is still not working and a new blog points out that, in the case of our president, persistence is more vice that virtue: Obama gave a […]

Yeah, We’re Cribbing That

by Smitty The quest of for a memorable tag that, ahem, sticks to the propaganda media may have climaxed:

To Go With The ‘Barbi Cam’

by Smitty The news of McCain’s taste for front-end venison is of course well known. Slightly less notorious is the ‘Barbie Cam’, a scarred-yet-miraculously-functional bubble gum pink affair similar to this: The Barbie Cam is rumored to have criss-crossed Europe before falling out of Skippy’s luggage: That lonely Barbie Cam may soon be joined by […]

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