The Other McCain

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

Can Newt Be Trusted? Calls Mitt Romney ‘Anti-Immigrant’ in Spanish-Language Ad

You may remember last week’s CNN debate in South Carolina, when Rick Santorum hit Newt Gingrich with this: I will give Newt Gingrich his due on grandiose ideas and grandiose projects. I will not give him his due on executing those projects, which is exactly what the president of the United States is supposed to […]

Separated At Birth? McCain/Ovechkin

by Smitty I distort, you deride. Really, though, we have to call on Jimmie Bise to make the call here. For those who have never heard of Alexander Ovechkin, he’s nearly as tough as Dan Riehl.

Meghan McCain: An Essay on Decadence

Ace of Spades called attention to this memorable pearl of wisdom folly by the notorious embarassment to the Republican Party: This purposeful and conscious disparagement of knowledge is rather breathtaking, coming as it does from someone whose grandfather and great-grandfather were both four-star admirals in the U.S Navy and who, one supposes, could not have graduated from Annapolis without […]

STATE OF THE UNION RESPONSE VIDEO: Cain Rocks National Press Club

by Smitty I thought that BHO’s third SOTU installment worked best as humorless stand-up. In between victory laps for ventilating Osama, Obama basically said nothing, with a few breaks to blame Buuuuush. The GOP response in an Indiana war memorial was better, but not as much as it should have been. Mitch Daniels was basically […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 01.25.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Giffords Honored At State Of The Union Chocolates and hugs as Giffords takes her seat for the last time Mitch Daniels Rips Obama As Inept, Foolish Or words to that effect, as he delivers GOP response to State of the Union NYT: How Dare Mitt Romney Take Advantage Of […]

Herman Cain At The National Press Club

by Smitty I’m out the door to head to the National Press Club. After senior #OccupyDC member #OccupyResoluteDesk is done offering the State of the Loaded Diaper Address, we’ll get to hear Herman Cain offer something that offers a little more America, a little less Orwellian pissing. No, the fluid on your back isn’t rain. Hopefully […]

The False Dilemma Fallacy: Mitt or Newt? The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?

Jeff Foxworthy says that, as a Southerner, the minute you open your mouth, people deduct 15 points from your IQ score. It’s a joke that’s funny because it’s so true. People automatically associate Southern accents with stereotypical backwoods hicks, and so I’ve spent my whole life being underestimated by Yankee smart-asses who think they know […]

‘Let-Me-Tell-You-What-to-Think’ and Other Conventional Wisdom Tricks

Many months ago, Ace of Spades erupted in a fury over an “objective” mainstream media news story: Stop telling me what to think! I’d love to link that memorable post, but archive searches on Ace’s site are difficult. The point he made, however, is that some journalists have an obnoxious tendency to assume readers are […]

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