The Other McCain

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

Bouie In: ‘Off-Beat Tales Of Racism And The Master Baiter; Wax On, Wax Oft’

by Smitty Via Jim Treacher’s Twitter feed, we have Jamelle Bouie Racism Plays a Big Part in our Politics. Period. This piece is so wretched that I won’t link it directly; you’ll have to swing through Google. And why might that be? Let me help: the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex (RIC) derives too much power from […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 08.24.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Mitt Romney Prepares For The Hard Sell Reveals more of his personal side, but not interested in becoming celebrity Prosecutors: Aurora Shooter Angry Over Poor Performance DA demands school records Assad’s Backers In Aleppo Defect To Rebels Support, cash now flowing to al-Tawheed Brigades POLITICS Protesters Begin To Arrive […]

Sean Bielat: On A MA-4 Mission

by Smitty Sean Bielat is running for the Republican nomination for Congress for the 4th District in Massachusetts and will be running against Joe Kennedy III, who, other than looking like he fell out of an LL Bean catalog, has precious little to recommend him. Bielat ran an insurgent campaign in 2010 against the risible […]

We Are Once Again Reminded Why You Can’t Spell ‘Huckabee’ Without an ‘F’

Going back to 2007, at least, I’ve borne a grudge against Mike Huckabee. When the “Fredhead” phenomenon collapsed — when Fred Thompson proved to be a far weaker presidential candidate than we had hoped — the question became, “Who can stop John McCain?” No conservative wanted McCain to get the nomination, but Republicans were horribly […]

President of a Black Fear

When I glanced at Memeorandum and saw the headline, it was impossible to suppress my groaning weariness with the worn-out theme: Fear of a Black President — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2012 Show of hands: Nearly four years into the Age of Obama, is there anybody — anybody — interested in reading a 9,582-word “What It […]

Blackmail: Paradoxical As It Is Raaaaacist

by Smitty Blogs written by lawyers tend to be high-quality and thoughtful. And the legal blogs, naturally pose thoughtful legal questions. But now and again you see one that really doesn’t seem so hard. I am generally perfectly free to publish embarrassing information about you — in fact, I generally have the constitutional right to […]

Like the New York Times, But Better

Dan Riehl called me the other day to tell me he was re-launching his site with a design similar to the New York Times. The New RIEHL WORLD VIEW Is Here The new design is impressive, and Dan provides an interesting selection of headlines, including this one: Lesbian Charlie Rogers faked hate crime to advance […]

Lowry to Climate-Change Zealot: Put Your Hockey Stick Where the Sun Don’t Shine

For my money, the funniest thing in National Review editor Rich Lowry’s reply to global-warming guru Michael Mann is this: Is it too much to ask that world-renowned climate scientists spend less time on Facebook? Mann posted a number of enraged Facebook rants because his notorious “hockey stick” graph, projecting a sharp increase in global temperatures caused […]

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