The Other McCain

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

Warning: Brain-Bleach Shortage!

Inadvertantly caused by Ed Morrissey: NOW President Terry O’Neill ignores the First Rule of Holes (stop digging!) and provides another cycle for Republicans to defend Ann Romney and stay-at-home moms. Instead of leaving bad enough alone, O’Neill appeared on Ed Schultz’ MSNBC show last night and attempted to rewrite Hilary Rosen’s faceplant . . . […]

Let’s Try To Help Hah-vuhd Further Beclown Itself

by Smitty Via the Blaze, word of the new course you can take: According to the Harvard course catalog, “Understanding Obama” is taught by the president’s longtime mentor Charles Ogletree. Here’s how the course is described: This reading group will focus on the way in which race, religion, and politics have impacted the development of […]

#OccupyResoluteDesk: “I’m Not Trying To Redistribute Wealth”

by Smitty The #Occupier-in-Chief said that while peddling his class warfare wares yesterday, as reported in The Examiner. Barack is accurate here: he’s not trying, he is effecting redistribution of wealth. Now, zoom in for the sub-pixel-sized image of the bearded Yoda, Rutherford B. Hayes, that follows BHO’s statement:

What Would Derbyshire Say?

Jim Geraghty at National Review cites a story by Politico: “Despite the broad changes in President Obama’s overall job approval rating since he became president, certain subgroups of the population have consistently rated him better than others, and these patterns continued in March. Blacks, Hispanics, women, 18- to 29-year-olds, Easterners, postgraduates, Americans earning less than $24,000 […]

Contrary To The 2008 Campaign? I Think Not

by Smitty Via Power Line, Jay Cost at The Weekly Standard perceives a tension, which I may help him resolve, emphasis mine: This is why Obama does not care if his attacks are unfair, untrue, unoriginal, unseemly, or whatever. He has only one goal: The state of the union stinks right now, and I must […]

BHO Bummed You Didn’t Get The Janice Joplin/Starland Vocal Band References

by Smitty #OccupyResoluteDesk is a man of obscure references, that’s for sure. So many people, for example, have misconstrued his famous 2008 remarks: “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama said, responding to a question about his cap-and-trade plan. He later added, “Under […]

Check Your Water Wings

by Smitty The National Debt Road Trip is about to get underway, in the nautical sense: Update: linked at

Mean RNC Pokes Fun At BHO’s Sincere Efforts To Save Gaia

by Smitty Our future hangs in the balance. The sun is riding so low, it could get stuck on Mount Everest while making its nightly lap about the planet.* What’s a President to do? Recycle his speeches. And yet, here is the mean ol’ RNC, serving up the President’s careful re-use of speech material as […]

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