The Other McCain

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

Define ‘Hate Group’

Also, define “secretly funneled,” because I’m having a little trouble with Josh Dorner’s Think Progress headline: Newt Gingrich Secretly Funneled $350,000 To Anti-Gay Hate Groups Last Year Except, of course, that there wasn’t anything “secret” about the “funneling”: It was duly reported as required by law and, as Think Progress itself notes, Gingrich was outspoken […]

It’s the New Motherf–ing Tone!

A spontaneous orchestrated outbreak of civility in Tennessee: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Seven union supporters were arrested and charged following an outburst inside a Senate Committee Hearing. Troopers at the Tennessee Capitol had to forcibly carry out the protestors who were among a group who stood up during the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday and began […]

‘Other’? I Mean, Really? ‘Other’?

Greg at Rhymes with Right took an online questionnaire and discovered that, under “gender,” the choices were “male,” “female” and “other,” with a blank available for the ambiguous respondent to fill in . . . ?? Insert punchline here. My own objection is to the use of “gender” instead of “sex.” As an old editor […]

Guilty Twitter Pleasures

by Smitty While I didn’t work much on my project tonight, I did see that IowaHawk served up something suitably serious for the POTUS March Madness Moment. This appears to have led to an Obama’s Bracket hash tag on twitter, to which I contributed the following: Twitter hashes: your sophomoric outlet. Twice as good with […]

Anyone Else Shocked That One Election Didn’t Magically Fix Everything?

by Smitty Insty links the Examiner about the Dems being Muhammed Ali, letting the GOP wear themselves out before delivering a knockout. I don’t think the analogy has much going for it. The Progressive position itself looks more like this old Harry Reid pose behind Rep. Sonny Bono (R-IP) The 2010 election has been called […]

Atlantic Crossing

Trans-Atlantic cosmopolitan Hadley Freeman, who apparently hops back and forth between Manhattan and Ye Merry Olde, offers what she describes as an ironic contrast: The British approach to dating could easily be described as “chaotic” to the point of non-existent. I, however, see it as a decidedly just, nay, DEMOCRATIC state of affairs: you go […]

Is Stacy McCain’s Fashion Sense Roughly Equivalent To His Skill At Arguing With Women?

by Smitty So Stacy has engaged in a lengthy dialogue with Little Miss Attila the last couple of days. In the asymmetric warfare between the sexes, whoever emits the most material is not necessarily the winner. In any case, he’s not managed to be on Twitter to chew the fat with me. However, our mutual […]

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Alternative Reality)

“Not only did Democrats under her Speakership raise discretionary spending 18% in three years, not only did she pass a Pay-Go law and then fail to adhere to it even once, Pelosi became the first Speaker since Watergate to fail to pass a budget resolution for a fiscal year. In 2010, despite having a 77-seat […]

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