The Other McCain

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

‘How Can the Right Defend Greed?”

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts said the title quote while discussing President Obama’s speech yesterday: Sister Toldjah is livid: This, of course, is how the debate on taxes, the deficit, the economy, etc will be framed from here on out – all the way up until the November 2012 elections, all in a repeat effort by […]

NYT Editor: ‘We Wanted to Believe’

Another rube self-identifies: Just a few winters ago my wife and I took our daughters to witness the inauguration of a man who had campaigned on hope and embodied possibility. We are pretty immune to political euphoria, but, circulating among the footsore pilgrims, we could imagine our country had embraced the idea that we were […]

‘Pay Their Fair Share’

How many times did President Obama say that phrase during yesterday during his Rose Garden speech? . . . for us to solve this problem, everybody, including the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations, have to pay their fair share. If we’re going to make spending cuts — many of which we wouldn’t make if we […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.20.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS AP: “Buffett Rule” Not Actually Based On Facts On average, rich pay a lot more taxes than the middle class, and at a higher rate Remains Identified As Missing Nursing Student Cell phone signals detected in area where body found Netanyahu, Abbas To Meet On Sidelines? Possibility of informal […]

Afghanistan Reflection

by Smitty BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN This is something I worked on for a while, and presented to my colleagues at Mazar-E-Sharif, as I was enjoying the farewell barbecue: Afghanistan Reflection Vanity of vanities, and what they say about those best laid plans of mice and men. As improvement we’d impose, in such far places as these, […]

Kate Upton in Her Underwear Says You Really Ought to Hit Ace’s Tip Jar Again

Don’t ask me how I know what Kate Upton wants you to do. Just take my word for it. Go over to Ace of Spades HQ and hit his tip jar for $5 or $10 and then come back and we’ll talk about it.

GM Offers $5,000 ‘Signing Bonus’ as Part of Deal With Union That Owns GM

The details of the $50 billion government bailout are sort of foggy in my memory, but if I recall correctly, GM’s bondholders — the people who had loaned money to the bankrupt automaker — got shafted so that Obama could hand a fat chunk of the company over to the United Auto Workers. OK, so […]

President Milquetoast

by Smitty As the hours in the ‘Stan wind down, Twitter is alight with Talk Like a Pirate Day and the Rose Garden gumflap. I’m at the Green Bean by the main PX in Bagram, and they’re jack hammering to remodel the corner. You need something loud to block that, so I reach for Helmet. […]

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