The Other McCain

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

Terrorism: Obama’s Against It

“I strongly condemn the separate and outrageous terrorist bombing attacks in Egypt and Nigeria.” Nice of him to make this clear, considering his long association with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. Associated Press video of the reaction in Egypt: This whole throwing-rocks-at-the-police thing doesn’t strike me as the Christian thing to do, but consider how Christians […]

Obama Supports Dog-Killer Vick, Jinxes Philadelphia Eagles vs. Minnesota Vikings

Exactly why the president of the United States felt the need to phone the Eagles’ coach to praise him for giving Michael Vick a second chance, I don’t know. What I do know is that it didn’t help the Eagles: The NFL’s first Tuesday game in 64 years produced a fittingly unusual result as Minnesota […]

Media Headwinds, Media Tailwinds

Ace of Spades describes a basic truth of American politics: The liberal media sells liberal candidates as brilliant and even-tempered and “sophisticated” and “nuanced” of thought; all of these are non-ideological attributes which appeal to most, whatever one’s politics. And they need to do this, as only about 25% of the country can be persuaded […]

How Narcissists Govern: Obama Bans Word ‘Triangulation’ at White House

As if, by banning this Clinton-era phrase, he can avoid the political necessity of imitating Clintonism: Despite all his time studying the Clinton administration, Mr. Obama told his aides that he had no intention of following the precise path of Mr. Clinton, who after the Democratic midterm election defeats of 1994 ordered a clearing of […]

Did Obama’s Election Cause Outbreak of Racist Grafitti in Philadelphia?

That’s what is claimed by an attorney representing plaintiffs in a civil-rights lawsuit: Several black men who were contracted to work at the Sunoco refinery in Philadelphia were forced to clean up racial slurs written about them on bathroom walls, the men claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit. . . . The six plaintiffs, […]

‘A Striking Failure’

“He was the man destined to save this country from his predecessor’s failures. He was the man who would end the war in Iraq, finish the war in Afghanistan, and shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. He was the man charged with rescuing the faltering American economy. He was the man who would usher […]

Death of Omnibus Boosts GOP

Defeating Harry Reid’s pet pork package gets Republicans off on the right foot going into the 112th Congress: Senate Republicans sought to build momentum on Friday after successfully forcing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to beg off a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial […]

It’s All About Him

Having already cost House Democrats 63 seats in the mid-term election, now St. Hopey tells ’em they’ve got to sacrifice everything for him: In urging lawmakers to vote for his tax deal, President Obama is using one of his go-to lines from the healthcare debate, according to a Democratic lawmaker. Obama is telling members of […]

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