The Other McCain

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

McKay Coppins, Concern Troll

Every newsroom is a seething cauldron of frustrated ambition. It’s been that way forever, and is true everywhere. Nobody goes into the news business with the goal of being the headline writer on the obituary page, but somebody’s got to do it, and the phenomenon of the “disgruntled staffer” is not really interesting unless the […]

The Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir Ignores ‘Preference Cascade’ Scenario

– Ed Driscoll points out that the “War on Women” hero/martyr Sandra Fluke drew a much smaller crowd than did the actual victims of the “War on Coal” in Grundy, Virginia. As they say, the plural of “anecdote” is data, and these are just a couple of points on the scatter-chart which are beginning to form into […]

@HatingBreitbart Shall Be Seen Alongside 2016 As Essential For Understanding The Obama Era

by Smitty An absolute must-see. And must-own. My old Nokia N97 was immortalized about midway through the movie, where, after he was done addressing the Tax Day Tea Party in 2010, I asked him a question: Other famous folks included, but not necessarily making the credits, were Da Tech Guy, Marooned in Marin. Dave Weigel […]

Left Celebrates ‘Hating Breitbart’ Opening by Acting Like the A–holes They Are

Tonight my co-blogger Smitty is going to see the new Andrew Marcus documentary Hating Breitbart for the first time. I’ve seen it twice — at the world premiere at the Republican convention in Tampa and at the D.C. preview showing Oct. 8. Last night at the first commercial showing of the film in D.C., a fanatical Breitbart-hater […]

Neal Rauhauser, Who Drove Barrett Brown Off the Deep End, Continues Unrelenting Harassment of His Targets

Neal Rauhauser was a speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference “There’s nothing stopping them. They feel like they have the right to do anything they want to anyone who gets in their way.” – Jennifer Emick, describing the online savagery she’s experienced since exposing “Anonymous” When last we took note of Brett Kimberlin’s evil […]

GALLUP: ROMNEY 52, OBAMA 45 — Let the Great 2012 Liberal Freak-Out Begin!

They convinced themselves that Obama “won” Tuesday’s debate, but Romney actually gains in the first Gallup national tracking poll with post-debate reaction? Oh, boy. UPDATE: Ace explains what happened:  The debate was not a victory for Obama. It was a confirmation of Romney’s acceptability, plausibility, and fitness for office. Yesterday, Sully admitted he had been “on […]

For What It’s Worth

— by Wombat-socho Maetenloch over at AOSHQ had this list of top-ranked conservative websites, courtesy of Doug Ross at DirectorBlue who did the grunt work of sorting through Alexa to figure out who’s hot and who’s not. The good news is that we’re hot: #96 on the list, just a few spots behind Dan Riehl […]

Did You Say ‘Preference Cascade’?

“One might have thought that the 2010 mid-term elections . . . would have convinced the Left that they had miscalculated. Instead, they placed their confidence in Obama’s ability to navigate the new environment . . . “Everything seemed to be proceeding in accordance with those beliefs until Romney dismantled Obama in Wednesday’s debate — […]

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