The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.17.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS One Killed, One Wounded As ICE Agents Open Fire On Each Other ICE agent wounds supervisor, killed by another agent; FBI investigating President Obama’s Big-Money Day In San Francisco Four-fundraiser day light on policy, big on boodle U.S. Attempting To Craft Sanctions That Will Only Hurt Iran Mission impossible? […]

Let’s Talk About Sex, Professor

Professor Glenn Reynolds talks a lot about sex, but he’s actually thinking about politics: I’m not much of a Santorum fan — to me, he seems like Mike Huckabee without the charm or political talent — but it’s hard not to notice the narrative jiu-jitsu here. The “narrative jiu-jitsu” involves something I explained yesterday: It is actually […]

Separated At Birth? Stacy McCain/Dave Mustaine Edition

by Smitty The news today that Dave Mustaine, who may or may not be a loyal reader of this blog, endorsed Rick Santorum today came to me via a print copy of the DC Examiner while attending to a private, non-work-related matter at my job site. Isn’t the resemblance striking? But I think the resemblance […]

Usually, ‘Demonizing’ Your Opponent Is Metaphorical.
Rep. Maxine Waters, Though, Talks Shedu

by Smitty This is actually an important point. Sure, Maxine Waters ranks in the Toolbox right up there with ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran. Look at her go: A crucial point here is that Waters is playing straight for the fear/hate. Hers, and, well, none of the arguments excreted by the Left anymore, have much rational basis. […]

Got Your Back, Ali Akbar

Maybe you don’t know Ali Akbar, but he is one of the most effective New Media operatives in the conservative movement. Along with Melissa Clouthier, Ali was a driving force behind Blog Bash. Love him, hate him, it doesn’t matter. The guy makes things happen, and when there’s a fight online, you want him on […]

SooperMexican: Dana Milbank Apologist?

by Smitty Did I type apologist? I meant adversary. First day, new fingers. SooperMexican is having none of Milbank’s critique of the GOP’s ‘insufficient’ pandering of the Latino vote (emphasis original, epithets ironic, as only conservative white males are capable of raaaaacism): Today leftist halfwit and pasty white gringo Dana Milbank wrote a column decrying […]

Subject to Misinterpretation

In an e-mail to some friends this afternoon, I wrote: While I was working on other posts and not following Twitter, it seems my feed blew up with ‘H8Rs’ who either missed the point or else got the point, and decided to blow me up for having pointed out some obvious but uncomfortable truths about […]

Free-Market Heartland Institute Victimized by Liberal Hoaxers

One of my smoking buddies at CPAC was Jim Lakely, a veteran newsman (and former Washington Times colleague) who now makes his living as communications director for Chicago’s Heartland Institute. And he’s outraged by the shoddy work of liberal journalists: Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s […]

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