The Other McCain

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

Malaysians, and Other Foreigners I Might Be Able to Give a Damn About, If You Could Pay Me $389,724.70 to Care

Bar Refaeli, a key element of Israel’s foreign-policy strategy (CONTENT ADVISORY: This post contains strong language, generic xenophobia and brutal cynicism.) After having briefly remarked — “Damn. Just . . . Damn.” — last night about this story, I’ve had a few conversations with friends, and taken time to reflect on the shocking news that Josh […]

CPAC 2014 Idea

by Smitty This year’s CPAC is a done deal, with the usual kerfuffles about groups that are too sexuality-centric (GOProud) and too controversial (Pamela Geller). I’d favor an improvement in the Rules of Engagement that supports bringing in more people with whom I don’t necessarily agree, as long as there are ground rules about how […]

Women: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live With ‘Em

by Smitty The title is about as negative as I ever get about women while having a conversation. It’s symmetric about the gender line, and I hope the ladies appropriate it as well. It relieves the very real tension about the gender divide in a joking way that doesn’t widen the gap. All that is […]

Who Andrew Breitbart Was

P.J. O’Rourke encounters Andrew Breitbart at the Manchester, N.H., Radisson Bar, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 In May 2007, I interviewed Andrew Breitbart while he was working — doing his shift as an editor at the Drudge Report — at the D.C. offices of Reason magazine, and described how he worked and why he did it: His […]

The _____ Of Things To ____

by Smitty ‘Tis so sweet to trust in _____ Just to take ___ at his word. Just to rest upon his ______. And to know, “Thus _____ the _____.” .@robfit There ????? is ??? no ???? #Benghazi ?? conspiracy ???????? Everything ?? is ??? fine ????????? trust ???? ur ???? Govt *wink* #p2 — John […]

‘He Would Fain Have Had It’

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it. It was mere foolery. I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown (yet ’twas not a crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets) and, as I told you, […]

Rising GOP Rock Star Alert:
Susan Stimpson Brings It

by Smitty Virginia is for lovers. . .of elections. There is a state convention in Richmond in May, to select the GOP slate for this November’s races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. The shy, retiring Ken Cuccinelli managed to overcome his introversion and clear the decks for the Gubernatorial race. Attorney General has […]

Harvard Abandons America (Or: Ted Kaczynski Is Not ‘Anti-Intellectual’)

What has been well-known for years is now official policy: Conservatives need not apply at Harvard University. This is really full-circle Back to the Future stuff, because the American conservative movement can be said to have properly begun in 1951 with the publication of William F. Buckley Jr.’s God and Man at Yale, which exposed in […]

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