The Other McCain

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

The Wireless Golgotha Of Stacy McCain

— filed by Wombat-socho While our Fearless Leader is out soothing his nerves with a smoke, I’ll chip in with a few comments about my first CPAC here at the Marriott Washington Wardman Park. In some ways, this is kind of a homecoming for me; when I was a young joey, I used to come […]

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, vi
Remote Factors Of The Opinions And Beliefs Of Crowds

by Smitty Le Bon really cuts to the heart of the matter on the racism issue. This passage in The Crowd This factor, race, must be placed in the first rank, for in itself it far surpasses in importance all the others. We have sufficiently studied it in another work (?); it is therefore needless to […]

Chris Cassone At CPAC12 Discussing
Take Our Country Back

by Smitty The pro-Cassone bias of this blog is unavoidable. We go back several years with Chris, and present with pleasure a quick CPAC interview where he touts his new tome. We cover a variety of topics, including Chris’s support to me while I was on deployment to Afghanistan. Chris is truly a great patriot, […]

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, v
A Religious Shape Assumed By All The Convictions Of Crowds

by Smitty Le Bon Intolerance and fanaticism are the necessary accompaniments of the religious sentiment. They are inevitably displayed by those who believe themselves in the possession of the secret of earthly or eternal happiness. These two characteristics are to be found in all men grouped together when they are inspired by a conviction of […]

Eagerly Awaited Steven Crowder Video

by Smitty Here it is, as noted yesterday.

Mead Seems Unaware Of How Perverse Use Of Technology By Government Is Wrecking Liberty

by Smitty I’ve been mocking Walter Russell Mead’s series on what the next round of Liberalism will look like. Part IV could be summarized as “Ain’t technology swell?” An inevitable question as we look at the demise of the 20th century economy is how shall we live? As the manufacturing that remains to us becomes […]

It Was Almost My Pulitzer Moment Covering #Occupy, But Then It Turned Into A Madison Rising Groove

by Smitty I got alerted by a phone call from somebody that #Occupy was going to stage a demonstration down by Radio Row. So I hied me there post-haste, camera ready. Security was not briefed beforehand, leading to an interesting encounter: And here is the actual cut: Update: here is further coverage of actual #Occupy […]

Hands Off My Health Care Rally

by Smitty Americans For Prosperity are bringing it, and you should, too 27 March is a Tuesday. I will take the day off to be there and blog this, because it is Simply. Too. Important. to neglect. Hands Off My Health Care Rally Upper Senate Park, Washington, D.C. March 27th at 1:00PM March 23, 2012, […]

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