The Other McCain

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

Obama, the Deficit-Hater

After two years of pissing away trillions of dollars in borrowed money, President Obama this week will present “a multiyear debt-reduction plan” — which is kind of like Tiger Woods deciding to cut back on banging cocktail waitresses after his wife left him. Notice that Obama sends a campaign strategist onto Meet the Press to […]

Obama: Let Them Eat Hybrids!

Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute points out that Obama appears to mock the questioner with 10 kids who asked about high gas prices: The president talks oil prices as if he actually knew something about either oil or economics. What Obama neglects to mention is that his administration’s own policies are a key factor in the […]

Failure Is The New Success

by Smitty Just a Conservative Girl brings this ad: Update: linked by DaveC.

REPORT: Deal Struck, Averts Shutdown (Insert ’30 Pieces of Silver’ Joke Here)

I’d been planning to go to bed early but stayed awake long enough to catch this: President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said tonight that lawmakers have agreed on a temporary extension of government funding, averting a government shutdown while Congress considers a longer-term budget agreement. Boehner made the same announcement during a […]

Libya: ‘Obama’s Worst Failure to Date’

That’s the subject of my latest American Spectator column: Scarcely three weeks after the U.S. military launched Operation Odyssey Dawn, the war in Libya is beginning to look like President Obama’s worst failure to date. While official Washington and the political press have been focused on budget negotiations and the prospect of a federal government […]

One Does Hope This Is Pure Bluff

by Smitty CNS News reports “Soldiers Won’t Get Paid Under Government Shutdown, Medicare Payments Would Continue, Obama Administration Determines” Soldiers will continue to earn money but not be paid during a government shutdown, a senior Obama administration official said.  “Military will continue to work as I described earlier,” the official said. “They will continue to […]

In Defense of Conor Friedersdorf

by Smitty Let the Tweet tell the tale of his rebuttal of Stacy McCain: That Conor: His nouns are bold, his verbs uncanny. Admit he’s the king of prose, or he’ll whip your fanny!  At least Conor is using TweetDeck. Stacy. Now, since the lone novembered one (for you phonetic alphabet junkies) thinks that he’s […]

‘Etch-a-Sketch’ Estimate of Libya War Costs: $40 Million Per Month? More?

Spencer Ackerman smashes the Obama administration’s Libya policy through a plate-glass window: How much will the Libya war cost America, now that NATO jets are hitting Moammar Gadhafi’s forces? Good luck figuring out an answer. Michael Donley, the secretary of the Air Force, leveled with reporters that the cost estimates for the war are coming […]

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