The Other McCain

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

Kagan’s Clone Wars

They’re not dead babies, they’re just clumps of cells: White House memos from 1997, when Elena Kagan was a top domestic policy advisor to President Clinton, show that Kagan — nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama — recommended that the Clinton administration permit cloning of human embryos for research purposes. Writing just months after Scottish […]

Obamanomics: Still Not Working

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost another 115 points Monday, after losing 324 points on Friday, for a two-day loss of 439 points (4.3%) — and a cumulative loss of 1,389 points (12.4%) since April 26. In short, if your 401(k) is mainly in stocks, you’ve lost about 1/8th of that money in about six weeks. The […]

Stimulus We Can Support: Paying The Piper

by Smitty Although Stacy and I are still Waiting for O-Dough, an alternate revenue stream may become available, as reported by CNSNews: Forget the astronomical joke bill, and focus on the bottom line. I’ve been a piper for nearly twenty years: Right now I’m working to get my pudgy body back into shape and also […]

So, ‘Words Matter’ Does Not Mean
‘Words Affect Matter’?

by Smitty (h/t Weasel Zippers via American Glob) Liz Cheney is clearly the new hotness: Barack Obama epitomizes the challenge of homo bureaucratus. While management skills are indeed skills in their own right (not to accuse BHO of possessing such), they are of the necessary but not sufficient variety. True, leaders delegate to subordinates. Leaders […]

Obama: If You Think I Screwed Up On
the BP Disaster, You’re Just Ignorant

He went to Columbia University and Harvard Law, which means he’s umpteen zillion times smarter than you are: “Those who think that we were either slow in our responses or lacked urgency don’t know the facts. This has been our highest priority since this crisis occurred,” Obama said during a rare news conference in the […]

If You Were Floating In The
Abstract Symbol Space Surrounding
His Head, You Would Know

by Smitty John at Power Line asks “Why Bother?” to the 1,200 National Guard troops deployed to Arizona. These troops will, apparently, filter out all of the drugs and guns coming across the border. Lawyers and money, apparently, not so much. The point of all of this is not to do anything effective. (The deployment, […]

VIDEO: Les Phillip Swore to Defend Against ‘Enemies, Foreign and Domestic’

Wonder who he has in mind on the domestic front? Here’s the Republican candidate for Congress in Alabama’s Fifth District: Marc Ambinder predicts that this will be the political ad everyone will be talking about this week. The transcript: This is the story of two young men. One fell in with left wing radicals. The […]

Wedding Bells For Limbaugh

WASHINGTON, DC–Rush Limbaugh will marry long-time girlfriend Kathryn Rogers on June 5th, according to a knowledgeable source. The wedding is reportedly planned for Palm Beach, Fla., where both Mr. Limbaugh and Ms. Rogers live. This exclusive news was received unexpectedly tonight while I was interviewing Liz Carter, a Republican Congressional candidate in Georgia’s 4th District. […]

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