The Other McCain

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

“How’s The Weather, Donald?”
“It’s Raining Knives”

by Smitty Here are the first there paras of a must-read Angelo Codevilla essay over at the Federalist: The Obama years have brought America to the brink of transformation from constitutional republic into an empire ruled by secret deals promulgated by edicts. Civics classes used to teach: “Congress makes the laws, the president carries them […]

The GOPe Fatwah Against @TedCruz Has Me Hoping For A Dewhurst On Tuesday

by Smitty Jeff Sessions of Alabama endorsing Trump? Sessions, what’s more, has decided to back Trump over Cruz, a fellow senator. Sessions has been one of the few in the Senate, even among Republicans, to praise Cruz, and Cruz has been dropping Sessions’ name all over the place in recent days. That Sessions has come […]

Note To The Trumpenproletariat

by Smitty There is a reason why the Ace of Spades is such a crucial blogger: My problem with Trump is that he is a dealmaker trying to make a sale. Right now he’s trying to make a deal with conservatives — so this is the very most conservative we’ll ever see him. If he […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

“Remember the time Stevie Ray Vaughan was here?” “Whaddaya mean ‘the time’? I was his favorite car. He was here as a little boy, and always came back here after his tours to blow off some steam. Of course, after Family Style, his time, like ours, came to a halt.” via Darleen

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty What’s more relaxing than a grandmother in the Keys of a perfect day, walking in the shallows as the tide flows in? It’ss the first day after the cleanup was mostly complete from the next hurricane after Katrina. The family has trundled down to the beach to find it mostly the same, despite […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty “You were right,” said Eddy in the playfully defeated tone they’d enjoyed for decades. Mary reached through his arm to touch his hand as he turned to kiss her forehead. They stood at the rail to view the high school track where their grand-daughter had just set a school record in the 100 […]

Don’t Let The Gills, Scales & Fins Distract You–Nothing Fishy In Trumpistan

by Smitty Byron York almost doesn’t seem to notice: There really were a lot of Trump voters out there, and party officials could not, or did not want, to see them. And what an astonishingly varied group of voters Trump attracted. At his victory celebration in Manchester Tuesday night, I met a young woman, Alexis […]

NARAL: ‘Tactic Of Humanizing Fetuses’

by Smitty #NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50 — NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016 I realize we’re not supposed to ask “hahrd” questions, but it would be helpful if the Servants of Moloch could explain something. Accepting for […]

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