The Other McCain

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

Is VA Gov. McDonnell’s Regent U. Thesis An Example?

by Smitty Instapundit: Have you noticed that the Dems keep coming up with some sure-fire talking point, and then the people on the right take it, turn it around, and then just keep hammering it until the Dems beg for mercy? Or, anyway, start trying to change the subject. Ed Driscoll on Twitter last night: […]

‘They Just Want the Money’

Walter Russell Mead finds amusement in New York Times employees — members of the Writers Guild union — whining about a proposal to substitute 401(k)s for their current bloated pension plan: Nobody in the video talks about the changes in the news business that threatens to drive the Times into a deep dive. Nobody talks […]

‘Civil Rights’ = Death Threats

Hey, remember when liberals were anti-lynching? George Zimmerman released on bond in Trayvon Martin killing — Los Angeles Times Twitter lynch mob: George Zimmerman is out on bail? Let’s kill him! — Twitchy If you’re old enough to remember when liberals were opposed to racism — and in favor of grammar and spelling — well, howdy, old-timer!

Troll-ism

Someone is using Twitter-bots to attack conservative blogs: Enoch and company have had to rebuild this blog because a nasty script was superimposed here, and the likelihood that it was an accident is much diminished by its also having been foisted on our old blog, POWIP. On Twitter, there’s a rash of direct messages telling […]

Jeff Goldstein Isn’t Ready to Don His Saffron Robe and Chant, ‘Hare Mitt-nu’

“Mother, do not wonder that my loyalty is growing weak. . . . I am sick and tired of the disaster and the fools that bring disaster upon us.” — letter from a soldier in the 79th New York Infantry, 1863 Seedubya today was cracking cynical jests on Twitter, whence I derived the headline joke. Speaking […]

Little Green Sheep: A Telling Update

Nothing is more predictable than the herd instinct. Despite their insistence that they make up their own minds, many people are in fact, as psychologists say, highly suggestible, and subject to peer pressure, so that if any trend becomes dominant within the particular herd with which they identify, the average person follows the trend without […]

When Liberals Tell the Truth

It’s usually not pretty. Tim Graham at Newbusters catches a DKos diarist telling the truth about what liberals think of babies: “Sasharusha” blogs “back to the whole fetus= parasite thing. That is how I see them. I don’t see them as cute and cuddly. I see them as terrifying and scary. I see pregnancy the […]

‘It’s Only Ever an Issue If …’

“. . . the politician is Republican,” says Jim Hoft, speaking in particular of polygamy, but you could apply it to many “scandals.” John Kennedy’s father was arguably pro-Hitler in the 1930s, but you don’t hear much about that, do you? Bobby Kennedy authorized J. Edgar Hoover’s wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr., another subject […]

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