The Other McCain

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

Good-Bye, Vanuatu? Perry-Linked Witness Predicts: If Cain Accuser Speaks, ‘Probably Be the End of His Campaign”

Shoes are now dropping faster than I can keep track: Oklahoma political consultant Chris Wilson says if the woman behind the reported sexual harassment complaint against GOP Presidential hopeful Herman Cain is allowed to speak publicly, it’ll be the end of Cain’s run for the White House. Interviewed today on KTOK’s Mullins in the Morning, […]

‘Mutually Beneficial’?

While updating a post about the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain, I noticed we had a new BlogAds client and clicked the ad to see what services were being advertised: “Being a Sugar Daddy Has Its Rewards” — no doubt about it — and “College Girls are Creative When it Comes to Arrangements,” as […]

Cain Accuser: ‘Other Workplace Issues Had Been Making Her Unhappy’

The New York Times: The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year’s salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there, three people with direct knowledge of the payment said on Tuesday. […]

David Lee Roth Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, But Thomas Sowell Is, To Profound Effect

by Smitty (via The Corner) Click to view what is truly an excellent dialogue, and one worth sharing with all those who have ears. If the guy wasn’t 814 years old [ed: first day, new ears], we should have to press gang him into the presidency. And you can’t write that sort of title without […]

Tweet Of The Day

by Smitty Update: more at The Conservatory.

‘With These GOP Strategists, Our Victory At Cannae Is Assured,’ Said Paullus

by Smitty Republicans won’t need to put a candidate like Sarah Palin on the presidential ticket this year, veteran party strategist Charlie Black says, because the candidates are already conservative enough. Asked at National Journal’s Election Preview on Tuesday whether he thought the party might name a vice presidential candidate like Sarah Palin, whose addition […]

James Garner, When TV Did Not Suck

by Smitty (via Gerard) Ah, the granola-heads of #OWS. This recalls the Steven Wright line about breaking up with his girlfriend because he was not into transcendental meditation, and she was not into being alive. Of course, the reality seems to indicate there is a healthy dose of pure creep show at #OWS. Back in […]

Eurocrats On Greek Referendum:
‘Are You Serious? Are You Serious?’

by Smitty Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph with an insider view of the Brussels reaction to the Greek referendum on the latest bailout farce: I wish I could convey the sheer horror that his proposal provoked in Brussels. The first rule of the Eurocracy is “no referendums”. Brussels functionaries believe that their work is too […]

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