The Other McCain

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Gold Tops $1,500 Per Ounce: Now Don’t You Wish You’d Listened to Glenn Beck?

A little less than a year ago — on May 20, 2010, to be exact — I first took notice of Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner’s attack on Glenn Beck for encouraging people to buy gold. The headline of my post: Everybody Should Buy Gold, Even If Glenn Beck Gets Paid to Tell You So Weiner […]

Canadian Left-Wing Guy With Fetish for Asian Porn Kills Chinese Student, 23

Brian Scott Dickson, 29, had been a top university student who once worked for a foreign-policy think tank, the Atlantic Council of Canada, and was also “involved with Developments in Literacy, a Pakistani aid organisation that raises money for children.” And now Dickson is charged with murder in the death of a Chinese student: Described […]

If De Niro Were A Bigger Hen,
His Name Would Be Penn,
Or He’d Work For CNN

by Smitty De Niro: let us enjoy your movies. Let not your brand be watered down by inane piffle, emphasis mine: “I think of the possibility of the government being shut down, and I say, ‘How did we get to this point?’” he said, according to Movieline. “I remember it happened years ago. And I […]

STUNNING VIDEO: German Woman Confronts Radical Muslims: ‘Never Again! I Am Ashamed! … Rise Up, Germany!’

Eric Dondero obtained and translated this video from Frankfurt, Germany, in which a woman encountered a group of Muslim men who were evidently engaged in hateful anti-Jewish rhetoric. She decided she had to speak out: “Never again! Never again! I am ashamed that he is allowed to speak here. I feel ashamed! I am German, […]

Question To Domestic Patriots: What Are You Doing About The Administration’s DISCLOSE Proposal?

by Smitty PowerLine notes von Spakovsky at PJM reporting: the Obama administration is circulating the draft of an executive order for comments from several government agencies. Titled “Disclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors,” it represents the Obama administration’s attempt to implement by executive fiat portions of the DISCLOSE Act as to federal contractors.  On […]

What Interest Rate Would You Charge Yourself for a Loan of Monopoly Money?

This is the question posed by the Fed policy of “quantitative easing”: The Federal Reserve’s experimental effort to spur a recovery by purchasing vast quantities of federal debt has pumped up the stock market, reduced the cost of American exports and allowed companies to borrow money at lower interest rates. . . . The Fed […]

Easter Joe: God Is Crying

by Smitty On Easter, one envisions God crying tears of joy at the completed redemption of creation. Suffering bites. When it produces something as joyous as the victory over sin and death we celebrate at Easter, well, that is the centerpiece of human history, no? Even the Common Era folks confess this, however grudgingly. A […]

The Futility of Class Warfare Rhetoric

Graphic: RushLimbaugh.com via Hot Air Pundit Demonizing the rich may work as politics for Democrats, but the problem is that it fails as policy. One could argue that Americans are undertaxed in general, and that some kind of across-the-board rate increase (or closing of loopholes) is therefore necessary for the purpose of enhancing federal revenue […]

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