The Other McCain

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Handy Dandy Fluke Translator

by Smitty Planet Moron offers a handy translator for these oddly confusing Sandra Flukisms: Fluke: “Silencing women’s voices.” Translation: Criticizing Sandra Fluke. Fluke: “Raising this issue in our public consciousness.” Translation: Agreeing with Sandra Fluke. Fluke: “Unfair obstacles to participating in public life.” Translation: Having children. More where that came from. Actually, the post makes […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.14.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS SANTORUM SWEEPS Santorum takes Alabama, Mississippi; Hawaii returns not in yet – Samoa goes for Mitt Transformer Fire Plunges Boston Into Darkness Back Bay district evacuated Bipartisan Push From Congress On Afghanistan Congressmen from both parties urge Obama to stay the course POLITICS AFL-CIO Suffers Cognitive Dissonance, Endorses Obama […]

GOP PRIMARY RESULTS HQ: SANTORUM WINS ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI: ‘WE DID IT AGAIN’

UPDATE 1:55 a.m. ET: Mitt Romney wins all nine of American Samoa’s delegates, just like Guam. I say we sell ’em both to China. Package deal. Good riddance! UPDATE 1:05 a.m. ET: Earthquake in Vanuatu. Just a coincidence, right? UPDATE 12:15 a.m. ET: As of now, according to the Associated Press, Mitt Romney has 472 […]

Fox Not ‘Fair and Balanced’? Santorum Finally Mentions Pro-Romney Bias UPDATE: Exit Polls Show Mitt Wins Mississippi? Newt 3rd in Alabama?

I’ve been saying this for weeks, and it’s probably not a good idea for the candidate to say so himself, but it’s unquestionably true: On Tuesday’s “Kilmeade & Friends” radio show on Fox News Radio, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum . . . accused Fox News of being in the tank for his competitor, former […]

No, Rick, Teleprompters Should Not Be Against The Law

by Smitty The whole ‘there oughta be a law’ notion is predicated upon the idea of the nanny state enforcing everything. All candidates do it, when they talk about swinging by the store and picking up a case of jobs to fix the economy. Let the court of public opinion do that. Let us understand […]

The Expert Agrees: Polls Are Crap! BONUS: @ESantorum2012 in Hawaii

Nate Silver of the New York Times shows a surprising humility in explaining the limitations of polling, particularly with the situation we’re facing in Alabama and Mississippi: We don’t have what you might call “data depth.” Unlike the early states (e.g., Iowa or South Carolina), we don’t have a long string of polls, several every […]

We Need To Nail This Down Before Somebody Wants To Name Her After #OccupyResoluteDesk

by Smitty Via Insty and NRO, a petition to keep the name USS Enterprise in commission, rather than have various other news- or sympathy-worthy figures move in. The Ruling Class would prefer you to lose all sense of history, and live in a ‘managed’ present tense. Resist we much.

Hillary Clinton ‘… Reject Efforts To Marginalize Any One Of Us*’

by Smitty *You have to understand that ‘us’ does not include Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, any other conservative women, and especially not females that have not completed gestation. May God Almighty give you a soul and then shed mercy on it, Hillary Clinton. Related: the failed “War on Women”. via Breitbart

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