The Other McCain

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

Stephanopoulos: ‘Van Hollen, How Will The Dems Reply To Ryan?’
Van Hollen: ‘George, We’ll Take Class Warfare For 45% On The Rich’

by Smitty UPDATE: regret autoplay faux pas. I blame Hugo Chavez. Click URLs to view clips. You’ve really got to enjoy the panache with which Chris van Hollen tries to serve a polished Democ**t budget turd: http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html AEI explains the atrociousness of the Democ**t budget in detail. My question is, could this be a tell […]

A Comment On Comments, Served Up As A Post

by Smitty Breitbart has a post concerning their comment system. That’s not terribly notable, except that it’s the same one this blog has used for a year-ish. So maybe Stacy will give me a little credit for technology choices, and even ponder some of my other suggestions, for example, TweetDeck. Third party comment systems like […]

I Had Never Really Felt Any Need to Learn to Speak Japanese — Until Now

Maetenloch at AOSHQ posted this video, and suddenly I had a reason — no, wait, make that two reasons — to take an interest: In unrelated news from the Pacific Rim: You know that stereotype about Chinese being lousy drivers? Totally false.

No Bowlder Man Than Dennis Walcott Ever Lived

by Smitty via Hot Air New York City Department of Education Chancellor Dennis Walcott has published a list of 50 words that should be expunged from standardized tests. Let us celebrate bowdlerization with a meditation on why Progressivism is cranial rectalitis at its finest using all 50 words/ideas that Walcott finds objectionable, in what is […]

Rick Santorum And The Traditional Justice System

by Smitty Jeffery Levin on Twitter points to The Hill, where Rick Santorum seems strangely unconvinced about the wisdom of a national conference on race in the era of Hope’n’Change: The question. . .was posed to Santorum by talk radio host Laura Ingraham Monday. “Absolutely not,” Santorum said. “This is either a very disturbed man […]

Dude, Did You Have to Diss Ann Coulter? Also: Obama Has ‘Certainly Been Massively Disappointing to Young People’

Let’s face it: Ever since Ann Coulter volunteered as head cheerleader for Team Romney, some of Miss Coulter’s longtime conservative defenders have been under tremendous pressure to denounce her. The problem is that nearly all the people who joined the anti-Coulter movement back in the day — and I’m looking at you, Ace of Spades […]

Think Happy Thoughts!

Today’s headlines perhaps explain why feelings of foreboding have recently overwhelmed my otherwise nearly infinite capacity for hope. In a private e-mail exchange today, I found myself explaining that what may appear to some a transient problem is, in fact, a predictable consequence of long-term trends. It occurred to me that, because I have always […]

Flaming, Multitudinous Jeremiads Retard Advances (FMJRA)

Flaming, Multitudinous Jeremiads Retard Advances by Smitty This week’s FMJRA celebrates those like #OccupyResoluteDesk or his Raaaaacism Industrial Complex minions, who excel at moving responsibility away from themselves in lengthy diatribes, while never quite reviewing their old and busted ideas. Leaders are those who can detect the death of a horse and cease flogging it. […]

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