The Other McCain

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

Breitbart: Who He Was, How He Was

Aleister at American Glob shares a memory of being an unknown blogger in fall 2008 when he learned that Andrew Breitbart was launching Big Hollywood: Without expecting much, I emailed him. All I said was that I heard about Big Hollywood and I liked his idea. How can I help? Less than ten minutes later, […]

R.I.P., Andrew Breitbart: Innovative Genius of New Media Dies at Age 43

WINCHESTER, Virginia “There is never a good time for bad things to happen,” I had just remarked to my wife, as we drove to the hospital where today we are dealing with a family emergency. Minutes later, my cell phone rang. Jeff Quinton was calling to tell me the news: “Andrew Breitbart died.” It was […]

Is Matt Drudge Not A Mitt Romney Fan?

by Smitty Ouch: Quite the triumph of the negative advertising will, Mitt’s 3% victory in Michigan. Alas for Romney, Rick Santorum is the leading Republican presidential contender in Ohio, according to a new survey in the state. The Quinnipiac University poll released Monday showed the former Pennsylvania senator with 36% support among likely Republican primary […]

You Can’t Stand For Much Without Implicitly Rejecting Something

by Smitty Eric S. Raymond faced some well-reasoned blowback for asserting an anti-SOPA/PIPA position from someone saying ESR overplayed his hand: The best any of our public faces can hope for is to represent us to 95% confidence and speak up knowing that some 5% are going to be disgruntled about it. I know that […]

Ann Coulter: What?

by Smitty Is free speech a bad thing? The No. 1 conservative talk-radio host in America, Rush Limbaugh, is critical of Romney, and another top conservative talk-radio host, Mark Levin, is adamantly against Romney — though both Limbaugh and Levin supported Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008, and Romney has only […]

The SNL Lin-sanity Sketch

by Smitty Ace was on about the Asian-American Journalists Association taking themselves way too seriously. Commenter #9, rockmom, pointed out that SNL had doen this. The idea that you just treat people respectfully, apologize when confusion arises, and graciously forgive those who step on your toes a bit just seems lost. I guess that was […]

Gaily Subverting The Will Of Maryland Voters Like Stacy McCain

by Smitty Joel Pollak at Big Government details the long-term strategy for the Ruling Class to subvert the will of Maryland voters: Last September, in a speech to same-sex marriage activists in Chevy Chase, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler revealed a plan by Democrat governor Martin O’Malley to stack the state’s highest court with judges […]

Jeff Quinton, My Blog Buddy

Waaaay back when, before such a thing as “blogs” existed, back in the day of 3200-baud dial-up modems, when I was still working at a small-town Georgia newspaper, I became an online acquaintance of Jeff Quinton. A native South Carolinian, Jeff always had a nose for news and frequently had the inside scoop on the […]

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