The Other McCain

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

Levi Lied, Sully Cried

Andrew Sullivan detects a conspiracy to silence the trailer trash hustlers courageous souls who speak the Trig Truth: In Palinland, no one knows what’s really going on. But I wonder if this is a somewhat panicked response to the recent blip upwards in web interest in the Trig question. With all these family members able to speak […]

Nice Work, No Sheeples!

by Smitty Thomas Sowell knows a great deal, but Real Clear Politics should retain No Sheeples Here for that crucial graphic. The Republicans do resemble a Charlie Boehner figure, tricked again and again by Lucy van Pelosi. Sowell asks: Why Republicans join such transparent attempts to rescue the Democrats from the political consequences of their […]

Lisa Murkowski’s Palin Problem

Joe Miller is the Republican primary challenger to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was rated No. 5 on the Human Events list of “Top 10 Senate RINOs” (and that was when Arlen Specter was still a Republican). The Aug. 24 Alaska primary is the subject of my latest American Spectator column:  Any disinterested political observer would be tempted […]

Immigration, Assimilation and Sovereignty

Michelle Malkin writes about “the unhyphenated, the law-abiding, the gratitude-filled sons and daughters and grandchildren of legal immigrants” and supplies a  brief history of the Founding Fathers’ views on immigration and assimilation. As I’ve often said, the way liberals (including some Republicans who think they’re conservative) talk about immigration, you might get the idea that Emma Lazarus […]

28 August, Lincoln Memorial? Yeah, We’re Blogging That

by Smitty (via Bluegrass Pundit) Restoring Honor Location: At the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Date: August 28, 2010 Time: 10a-1p ET Two months is enough time to get our ducks in a row as far as covering the event goes. I’m not a regular Beck viewer, so Bluegrass Pundit’s post was news to me. […]

California Journalists Caught on Video Making Fun of Sarah Palin Speech

“The dumbness doesn’t just come from soundbites” says one reporter in the open-mic moment after the Palin speech, while another asks: “How am I going to write about this? There’s nothing there!” To which a colleague replies: “Well, there’s your story.” This is nothing new. The first time I went to cover a Sarah Palin speech (“Sweetheart […]

OMG! Scandal! Miley Cyrus Crotch Shot Published by Perez Hilton Reuters

Reuters offers the Mother Of All Excuses: A Reuters representative speaking on background admitted that the photo had caused concern in the photo department because of Miley’s age, but that was weighed against the fact that it occurred on stage in front of hundreds of people and other cameras, as well as the fact that the […]

Newsweek Intern Attempts to Describe Hayek’s Road to Serfdom: Massive FAIL

Thanks to Kathy Shaidle for calling attention to this sophomoric effort by Princeton senior Isia Jasiewicz: On June 8, Beck devoted an entire episode of his talk show on Fox News to The Road to Serfdom, a work of political theory written in the immediate aftermath of World War II by Friedrich von Hayek, an Austrian émigré […]

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