The Other McCain

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

Gillespie Serves It Dry In A Fonzie Jacket

by Smitty Nick Gillespie is always calm when explaining what should seem obvious, at least to a non-Progressive: Morrissey at Hot Air is difficult to refute: This, I believe, will be the “big f******g deal” for the Supreme Court, and perhaps not just the Scalia wing, either. The removal of this barrier on federal government […]

Mark Oxner Continues The Work Of Ensuring A Grayson-Free Congress

by Smitty Alan Grayson, one of the the weirder Lefty jackwagons ever to be sworn into a Congress, is the subject of a tough Spansish-language ad from GOP FL-9 hopeful Mark Oxner: Oxner’s site has a good review of the evil that is Progressivism: Alan Grayson must answer for his proud belief in the progressive […]

Trayvon Martin Case Discussed by Noted Civil Rights Leader … David Plouffe?

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana When I had lunch Wednesday with Ali Akbar, he was talking about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, and I had to confess that I didn’t know enough about the case to have an opinion. My main suggestions were (a) we shouldn’t “try the case in the media” by offering opinions based on incomplete […]

Don’t Blame The Class, Blame The School Of Thought

by Smitty Insty links Mark Steyn’s latest lamentation: But these comparisons tend to understate the insolvency of America, failing as they do to take into account state and municipal debts and public pension liabilities. When Morgan Stanley ran those numbers in 2009, the debt-to-revenue ratio in Greece was 312 percent; in the United States it […]

Hey, Lefties, It’s Sunday: Are You Finding Joy In Life?

by Smitty Bluegrass Pundit points to CNS News: The more often a person attended religious services, Gallup discovered, the more often they experienced positive emotions and the less often they experienced negative emotions. The less a person attended religious services, the more they experienced negative emotions and the less they experienced positive ones. People who […]

You’re Darn Right I Bought A VW TDI Diesel Jetta

by Smitty The TDI diesel is reliable, gets great gas mileage, has decent power, and is available in a manual transmission. Automatic transmissions are as exciting as government entitlements to me. Your mileage may vary. Also, I would certainly have preferred to buy a Ford, except that Ford doesn’t seem to care fig #1 about […]

FMJRA 2.0: Pretty Girl Hate

— compiled by Wombat-socho Once upon a time in the not too distant past, there was a blogger who linked furiously to The Other McCain, and made frequent note of this in the comments. Unfortunately, this blogger used Blogger, and as we all know, WordPress hates Blogger and doesn’t recognize its links. Which is why […]

LOUISIANA PRIMARY RESULTS HQ: Santorum Wins by Wide Margin

HARAHAN, Louisiana UPDATE 9:29 p.m. CT: While the exit polls had indicated a double-digit margin for Rick Santorum, few suspected that he could beat Mitt Romney here by more than 20 points but, with 65% of precincts reporting, it’s Santorum 49% to Romney’s 26%. Santorum staffers here say they don’t expect that margin to shrink […]

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