The Other McCain

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

Tonight: Thelma And Louise Do DC?

by Smitty Sheer Politics thinks that We’ll know in a few hours if Congress has the courage to step back and build a better bridge to the future or drive us off the edge like Thelma and Louise, which will result in their going down as well, come November and in 2012. This is an […]

Kill The Bill Protest: That Was Like 3 Days Of CPAC In 3 Hours

by Smitty Ace has the voting schedule for tomorrow, as relayed by CBS. Summary: the excrement is scheduled to arrive in the vicinity of the air circulator at 1815. If it goes off as scheduled, we move on to the the next stage of tactical resistance. Too many people have paid too great a price […]

Blogging and Incentives, Left and Right

Baseball Crank writes that he has been blogging about politics since 2002 — “RedState wouldn’t be founded until the summer of 2004” — and relates some history of the ‘sphere: If you have been reading or writing blogs for some time, you may recall the early, heady days of the blogosphere back around 2002-03 . . […]

Andrew Sullivan on Empiricism

Irony Deficiency Syndrome: “And the insistence on reality, on assessing problems empirically, and in proposing solutions is what we all need to get better at.” After which observation, Sully returned to his usual métier — bashing Israel and ranting about Sarah Palin’s uterus.

Coming Up Real Soon Now: Live Cassone

by Smitty Cassone speaks: I will be on live tonight at 10 PM EST. John Clark has reportedly the largest streaming audience in that time slot. So please pass on. I’ll be debuting several new songs and talking tea. Also appearing is my friend, Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots who will talk about […]

Why Is Da Tech Guy Radicalizing Fitchburg?

by Smitty The simple fact is that, since Da Tech Guy attended CPAC just a few short weeks ago, Fitchburg, Mass. has become a hotbed of activism, scoring simultaneous protests today. Inquiring blogs want to know: just where is he going with this Fedora sportin’ reign of activism?

Heading Down To The FreedomWorks Protest On The Mall Today

by Smitty I’m about to head down to take in at least the first couple of hours of the FreedomWorks protest. As is customary, I’ll be sporting my USS Constitution ballcap and a bow tie, which is absolutely not an expression of Tucker Carlson-ism. It’s also worth pointing out that Grandpa John’s vision of me, […]

‘Dear Zionist Douchebag’?

Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic Monthly disengages from Sully: Each time Andrew Sullivan writes negatively about Israel (which is to say, almost every day), my e-mail in-box becomes flooded with pleas that I respond. . . . Yes, it’s upsetting that Andrew Sullivan . . . has become an anti-Israel propagandist. But it’s not my […]

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