The New Ten Buck Friday Poll Is Up
by Smitty The Lonely Conservative has the details. My local hopeful, Patrick Murray, is on this one, though going against Gentleman Jim Moran is going to be a tough slog. Also Birchtree Sustainable Studios has a fine piece of patriotic art on offer, suitable for just about any American occasion. Check it out. Update: the […]
Does Not Caring About The Country Correlate With Thuggery?
by Smitty If patriotism means caring about your country, then what does this CNSNews story tell us? Conservatives are more than twice as likely as liberals to express very strong patriotism, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll in which 48 percent of conservatives said they were “extremely patriotic,” but only 19 percent of liberals […]
My Chance Meeting With Charles Bolden
by Smitty This is one of those moments when you wish you kept a journal. It seemed that the tragic death of three Midshipmen in 1994 was the occasion for being in the Chapel of the Navy for a memorial service, and finding myself standing next to then-Colonel Bolden, the Dep. ‘Dant. What I mostly […]
Is The Left Fretting The Kagan Confirmation?
by Smitty Update: See below, for Stanley Kutler playing a favorite old card. Let’s review Mark Greenbaum at Salon, and see what our purported post-term-of-the-week overlords might be saying on closed JournoLists. Summary: the fret level doesn’t seem too elevated, but the article has some nice digs, in any case. Members of Congress are rarely […]
VIDEO: 20lb Sledge ‘Right Wing Woman’
by Smitty Zo delights with a Rule 5, social conservative, delightfully funky groove: Go, Zo!
Interesting Point From Across The Pond
by Smitty Daniel Hannan, British MEP, pondering US independence: Thomas Jefferson, whose bust stares at me as I write this blog, had wanted to include a touching phrase in the Declaration, but his fellow authors excised it: “We might have been a great and free people together”. Indeed. Everything I have done in politics has […]
Rule 5 Sunday
by Smitty Independence Day brings forth the patriotic in Rule 5. Patriotic bikinis abound! The Camp of the Saints Mind Numbed Robot Nation of Cowards Right, Wing-Nut! Three Beers Later Power and Control GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD BlogProf celebrates independence with a field, a lady, and pump action rifle. American Power went on a bit of […]
Gulf Cleanup Pussy Just Pluckered Out
by Smitty (via HotAir) We heard Anderson Cooper’s tale of woe regarding the mostly opaque level of transparency set by the Hopium and Changeeba Administration. Reacting quickly, and noting that the 65′ First Amendment FTW zone applies to humans, we dispached Sissypuss the Blog Kitty. Sissypuss, we discovered, had been hanging around Philadelphia, thinking to […]
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