The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.29.11

TOP NEWS President Claims US Has “Strategic Interest” In Stopping Qaddafi Apparently “interest” doesn’t extend to actually getting rid of Khadafy Obama: Libya Is No Iraq (Video) US Military: Not Working With Libyan Rebels (Video) Gaddafi’s Gloss On Misurata Workers Suffer Under Harsh Conditions In Fukushima Stabilization Effort Limited food, no running water, and high […]

Try to Act Surprised

You know how, when somebody gives you a gift and for some reason you already knew what they were going to give you, as a courtesy you make a point of acting surprised anyway? “A sweater! Wow! Aunt Mary, how thoughtful of you!” Byron York just gave you a sweater: Evidence is emerging that United […]

The Epistemic Closure of Joe Bageant

Via Memeorandum this morning I learned that author/blogger Joe Bageant has died and is the object of several obituary tributes on the Left. Susie Madrak calls Bageant a “fire-breathing class warrior” — she means this as praise — and writes: “Did I mention that Joe was, in fact, an actual socialist?” This she also intends […]

Never Take Advice from Your Enemies

For example, Harry Reid: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday urged Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to ditch members of the Tea Party and cut a deal with Democrats to avert a government shutdown. Reid insisted it is those GOP internal divisions that are threatening to shut down the government after April 8, in […]

Good Tactically, But What Of Strategy?

by Smitty (via Insty) So the GOP is serving up paper cuts on the deficit dragon, and some think that’s OK, for example Fred Barnes in the WSJ: There’s every reason to believe the incremental strategy would continue to succeed. Democrats are flummoxed by it. They’d like to block more cuts, but they’ve been unable […]

I Say, Well Played Old Chap!

by Smitty At first I thought this bit of squid porn at the Reaganite Republican was a serious post from Information Dissemination, or something. By mid-post, I’m looking at “The USS William Jefferson Clinton is show here sailing out of its home port of Vancouver , BC.“, and saying, “Wait, what?” Nicely done, sir.

Yemen: This Is Not Good News

Associated Press: Islamic militants seized control of a weapons factory, a strategic mountain and a nearby town in the southern Yemen province of Abyan Sunday, said a witness and security officials, as a political stalemate in the capital causes security to unravel around the country. Of course, if you are concerned by such developments, this […]

Herman Cain Refuses to Be Intimidated by Political Correctness

When Think Progress accuses him of “bigotry,” you know that’s got to help him in the GOP primaries: There is this creeping attempt, there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government. It does not belong in our government. This is what happened in Europe. And little by […]

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