The Other McCain

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

Romney: Maybe If I Make My Positions Sound Current, I Can Win

by Smitty Byron York, via Instapundit: “You don’t think we would have gone in [to Iraq]?” asked MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “Well, of course not,” Romney answered. “The president went in based upon intelligence that they had weapons of mass destruction. Had he known that that was not the case, the U.N. would not have put […]

Cli-Fi And Radical Feminism Go Together Like Czars And #OccupyResoluteDesk

by Smitty Thanks to Paco for ‘Cli-Fi’, which would expand to ‘climate fiction’, clearly. Equally brilliant: ‘an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues‘. Melanne Verveer’s post was created by President Obama on April 6, 2009, yet does not appear to be on the usual czar list. Fortunately, if we all chip in $40/week, we can cover […]

Senior Game Player, Gamely, Denies Game In Progress

by Smitty Hey, Steny, get stuffed, OK? There hasn’t been a budget from the Democrat-controlled Senate in the better part of a thousand days. People are reading Throw Them All Out, for all a quick search on the Kindle reveals no ‘Hoyer’ hits. Good work! Still, no one with more than two active brain cells […]

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT – 12.22.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Rush Hour Bomb Blasts In Baghdad Kill 27, Wound 133 Bombings occur against backdrop of renewed Sunni/Shia political friction Democrats Seek Victory In Payroll Tax Cut Struggle Democratic ops claim Speaker Boehner will cave PRC Travel Agents Halt Pyongyang Tours No cheap holidays in other peoples’ misery while mourning […]

God-Hating Feminist Blogger Denounces Iowa Republicans and Rick Santorum

Let the undecided Iowans be undecided no more. Rick Santorum has been denounced by the notorious Amanda Marcotte: Right on schedule, Rick Santorum is getting a push in Iowa amongst people who probably don’t know how to use the googles anyway. . . . It’s important to remember that while Iowa wingnuts are wingnutty in […]

Behold, I Bring You Peace, Goodwill, and Also This Gratuitous Vintage Pinup Girl

There are exactly two kinds of ideas in the blogosphere: Bad ideas; and Ideas worth stealing. Therefore I’ll begin with a hat-tip to William Teach at Pirate’s Cove, from whom I swiped the idea of using vintage cheesecake to grab attention for an odds-and-ends aggregation — as Jimmie Bise of Sundries Shack calls it, “clearing the […]

War With Iran? Cue The Fear!

by Smitty Instapundit relays the Mead: In a recent interview with CBS news anchor Scott Pelley, Panetta said “the United States does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That’s a red line for us”. He continued: “We will take whatever steps are necessary to stop them”. A nuclear Iran is “unacceptable”. When US […]

Dear Mr. Cain

Who cares, at this point, that Robert Costa got “the exit interview” instead of me? I’m over it, and too busy planning for my Iowa trip to worry much about it now. But this kind of bothered me: The media: When Cain launched his campaign, “I didn’t realize how vicious it was and I didn’t […]

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