The Other McCain

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

Summa Cum Laude

My daughter Kennedy is graduating today from Frostburg (Md.) State University with highest honors. Regular readers will remember that Kennedy got married last summer, and that she was featured in a news story about her career as an aspiring teacher. The commencement ceremony today — and my son Jim’s high-school graduation yesterday — explains why I’m not in Atlanta […]

What Sort Of Tumor Is Progressivism?

by Smitty Why, pro-state cancer. Ba-dump bump *tsh*. Seriously, I am enjoying the worst bandwidth challenge yet to my blogger-fu. I have paid for three different Internet providers here, all providing roughly equivalent dis-service. The better news is that I’ve passed the halfway point on the deployment. Everybody, please continue to support Stacy’s mad quest […]

David Gregory, Putz

“Just take my word for it, I’m David Gregory, and I’m paid to make up lies for the White House on television.”

The Cain Doctrine: ‘You Mess With Israel, You Are Messing With the United States’

“It’s that simple,” he tells Neil Cavuto: Meanwhile, The Right Scoop also has this video of Charles Krauthammer dissing Herman Cain as mere “entertainment”: Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when I agreed more with Tucker Carlson than with Krauthammer. Herman Cain: A Real Leader MONEYBOMB UPDATE: Allahpundit takes notice of Krauthammer dissing […]

A Kinsleyan Gaffe?

Michael Kinsley once defined a gaffe as when a politician accidentally tells the truth. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: “Unfortunately there are some parents who just come from — they never had a formal education, and they don’t understand the value of education.” Which is certainly true of “some parents,” although it is unclear whether this […]

Successful Propaganda

Gallup reports that, for the first time ever, a majority of poll respondents favor same-sex marriage. Note the large and rapid change in opinion: A mere 15 years ago, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by more than a 2-to-1 margin, 68% to 27%, whereas now the number is 53%-45% in support of same-sex marriage. “The fantastical […]

2012 Candidates Not Named ‘Herman’

It’s kinda been all-Herman, all-the-time here lately, so let me update you on what’s going on with the non-Hermans: Democrats are running attack ads against Mitt Romney in South Carolina. Exactly why Democrats would be monkeying around in a GOP primary is an interesting question. (Hat-tip: Ann Althouse.) America braces for the onset of T-Paw Fever: Tim […]

Did Bibi Diss Obama?

That’s what Jeffrey Goldberg says, but Professor William Jacobson springs to the defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet it is also reported that Netanyahu feels disrespected by President Obama, so that the question is, “Who dissed whom?” All in all, this atmosphere of mutual disrespect bodes ill for prospects of Mideast peace, arousing suspicions that […]

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