The Other McCain

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

This Is The Part Where I Point And Laugh At Alan Schroeder

by Smitty At the risible SOL/PuffHo, Alan Schroeder has published “Why Republicans Should Not Sponsor Republican Debates“. Two ‘graphs in, I realized this would have to be a long-form fisk. Emphasis mine throughout. Schroeder Smitty According to an internal e-mail intercepted by Politico, the Republican National Committee is hoping to sponsor its own series of […]

Christine O’Donnell To Publish A Book Called ‘Trouble Maker’

by Smitty Alan Colmes must know someone at St. Martin’s Press, because he’s reporting a Christine O’Donnell book with the title “Trouble Maker” that isn’t even available for pre-order on Amazon. The questions I have are: Why she gave up politics for biography? Why did she pick Stacy McCain for her first subject? Yeah, I’m […]

URGENT: BOMB IN DETROIT

The opening show of Charlie Sheen’s “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour in Detroit was a bomb of historic proportions. People who paid as much as $65 a ticket were booing and walking out. One self-described Sheen fan who came all the way from Toronto for the show said: “He’s making a fool of himself. Is […]

Is The Wisconsion Union Self-Aware Enough To Grasp That It Is Behaving In The Taliban Fashion?

by Smitty (h/t Protein Wisdom) Here in Afghanistan, the various terrorist networks use night letters to intimidate the populace. It seems that word of this approach has reached Wisconsin and somehow been deemed acceptable: The missive concludes by noting that, “With that we’d ask that you reconsider taking a sign and stance to support public […]

Feminism: What They Said

“The so-called women’s movement has never been about equal rights for women. It’s about power for the female left. . . . “Feminists think they’re fighting a society that has wronged them. In reality, they are fighting human nature.” — Susan Venker and Phyllis Schlafly, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know — and […]

Sarah Steelman vs. Claire McCaskill?

While surfing the Web, I saw an ad for this Republican candidate — former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman — who has made an early start campaigning against Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill for 2012: You can contribute at Steelman’s Web site.

Did You Say ‘Cynicism’?

Referencing a UCLA professor fired because he blew the whistle on fraud in environmental research, Professor Glenn Reynolds writes: A cynic might suggest, of course, that notions of academic freedom were developed in the first half of the 20th century largely in order to protect communists from being fired, and that since Enstrom isn’t a […]

Sully: ‘We Are Damn Lucky to Have Him at This Fraught Moment in History’

“Him” of course being President Obama, who still moves Andrew Sullivan to paeans of gratitude, no matter how un-constitutionally Bush-like or wrong-headed Obama’s actual policies might be. Did you say “Battered Wife Syndrome“? Yeah. Everybody sees it, except the victim who refuses to take responsibility for enabling his own abuse. Meanwhile, with our brilliant European […]

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