The Other McCain

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

Noise Like This Makes Me Glad I Spent That Time In Afghanistan Trying To Help Them Become Like Us

by Smitty Via Insty, there is a story about fix a speeding ticket for the offspring of a deputy. Hey, that’s just how things work in Afghanistan: you know people, you pay them, you buy the desired outcome. Other than going after these people hammer and tongs, I can’t think of ways to reverse a […]

#OccupyWallStreet Weenies Get No Love From Schlichter

by Smitty Your rant of the day comes from Kurt Schlichter. A sample: The mainstream media’s cameras can’t get enough of these pierced protesters, with their crudely written signs proclaiming their unfocused discontent and general anger at society’s selfishness in failing to satisfy their every want and desire. Of course, those cameras discreetly turn away […]

Art That Cannot Find A Market Is Art That Can Find A Landfill

by Smitty via Gateway Pundit

Conservatives Support Boston Needy Who Were Harmed By #OccupyBoston

by Smitty You pick your battles. When @ali chimed in on Twitter that Boston’s  “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” fundraiser was getting wrecked by #OccupyBoston, making a donation seemed a twofer: support the genuinely needy, and sticking it to the mooch. Normally, I like more personally directed charity, but this was OK. As Warner Todd Huston relates, […]

Can You Make Peace With Stupid?

by Smitty Erickson over at Red State has a post about “Finding Common Ground With the Occupiers“. His four suggestions toward the end are completely agreeable to about every conservative I’ve ever met. In summary, put the public sector cart behind the private sector horse, where it belongs, unless you are stupid. And he’s even […]

Strictly As A Thought Experiment

by Smitty Say there was a dynamic candidate with a, call it ‘reasonable’, shot at a major party nomination. Say that candidate got the impression that a fix was in already for that nomination, and all of the debates and polls and flesh pressing were really just so much dog and pony. Say that candidate […]

‘… Significantly Less Substantive, in Terms of His Words, Than He Appears …’

by Smitty Quin Hillyer not gripped by the Mitt: The main thing I learned is that Mitt Romney is significantly less substantive, in terms of his words, than he appears to be when you watch him live. Or Michelle: When Bachmann isn’t as well versed on an issue, it really shows, much to her detriment. […]

Zonation Suggests Herman Cain ‘Smoke Crack’ To Impress Cornell West

by Smitty This is just a great essay from a great American. Watch the whole thing. God bless you, Alfonzo Rachel. Update: fixed an incredibly annoying name typo. Sorry, ‘Zo! Also, linked at The Lonely Conservative and Nice Deb.

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