The Other McCain

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

Just Doing My Job, Jerry

My friend Jerry Wilson at Goldfish and Clowns seems to have taken personally my failure to respond to his writings, and that’s OK. Neglectfulness is a problem with me and when I’m on the road, the problem is compounded. In case you didn’t notice, I spent the past week in Tampa at the Republican National Convention […]

Sticky Political References

by Smitty Bill Quick points to the maple syrup story in the great white north, and figures that the 15k barrels suddenly ‘missing’ from a Canadian warehouse were never filled in the first place. In the age of politics in everything, let me be the first to point out what an excellent metaphor we have […]

#EmptyChairDay : 100-Year Plant, Or 1000-Year Gripe?

by Smitty Via Soopermexican, #OccupyResoluteDesk gets hoisted on his own petard again, leaving the chair at the Resolute Desk abandoned. This blog awaits the accusers who said that VP nominee Paul Ryan was ‘misleading‘ to allow that Ryan was relating not only what Obama said in a straightforward manner, but also capturing the messianic thrust […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Like A Rock

— compiled by Wombat-socho For the benefit of those reading Rule 5 compilations for the first time, or who have forgotten since last time: some of the links below are most definitely Not Safe For Work and could contribute to the pollution of your precious bodily fluids. Laughing Conservative leads off this week with Rhian […]

Labor Day Administrivia/Open Comments Thread

by Wombat-socho I’m taking tomorrow off and sleeping in. Live At Five will resume Tuesday, September 4. We don’t usually have open comment threads here, so enjoy this one while you have it.

Breitbart in February: ‘You Want a Unity Speech? I’ll Give You a Unity Speech.’

FLORENCE, South Carolina Back in February at CPAC, Andrew Breitbart gave a speech in which he called for unifying conservatives to defeat the Left: Anyone that’s willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you’re not in that bunker ’cause you’re not satisfied with […]

Kimberlin-Rauhauser Axis Targets Romney Campaign Staffer Bill Murphy

Brett Kimberlin could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison Brett Kimberlin’s non-profit 501(c)4 Velvet Revolution is part of an apparent effort to destroy Mitt Romney’s online rapid-response team by targeting Bill Murphy, a young Internet operative who has helped improve the campaign’s social-media presence. In an item posted Saturday on the Democratic […]

World’s Youngest Blogger: What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

Everybody has to have a first plane trip. At thirteen months, my teen-age self headed over to Germany to on the occasion of grandmother’s birthday. Parents being the embarrassment that they are, mom and dad neglected to tell grandma and grandpa that we were coming! When the video starts, mom was seen out the dining […]

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