The Other McCain

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

Because I’m Libertarian Like That

An unfortunate incident: A barricade situation adjacent to the Northern Virginia Community College campus is over, according to Fairfax County police. The situation ended just before 10 p.m. Thursday. The incident took place on the eigth floor of the Skyline Terrace Apartments in the south tower of the two building high rise complex … in […]

OMG

by Smitty Observing My Government’s Overwhelming Monetary Gouging, One Might Guess Our Main Guarantee: Obama Must Go And, for a chaser, the Ott: Update: things that would be raaaaacist if I did them:

Responsible Elite In ‘A Face In The Crowd’

by Smitty At the suggestion of Ladd Ehlinger, I took in A Face in the Crowd, a 1957 Kazan flick that is well worth your time. ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes goes from nowhere to national stardom. Andy Griffith is powerful as an Icarian pop culture icon. The documentary on the DVD includes a couple of interesting quotes […]

House Calls Obama’s Bluff, Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension He Promised to Veto

However it turns out, score this a win for Boehner: Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Tuesday passed a bill extending a cut in Social Security payroll taxes for 160 million Americans for another year. But the Democratic majority in the Senate vowed to reject the measure because of objections to […]

Why Does Obama Hate Jews?

Well, Republican Jews, anyway:

Conflation

by Smitty Daily Pundit keys in on a sentence from Stacy’s post: He loves to talk about infrastructure — “investments in road and bridges” — as if that was the majority of the what he’s spending money on, when in fact, infrastructure projects were less than 5% of the stimulus bill. It’s like me sprinkling […]

Barack Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again

Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming. There is only so much of this bulls–t I can endure without talking back to my TV: OBAMA: If I can’t get Republicans to move, partly because they’ve made a political, strategic decision […]

The National Popular Vote Is A Fine Way To Ferret Out Progressive Idiots

by Smitty Senator Mitch McConnell swings by Heritage for a quick interview on current topics. Screw these National Popular Vote fools. McConnell points out that the Electoral College, while perhaps not perfect, is the Constitutional mechanism in place. It provides a final sanity check. In the Information Age, where there is an increasing gut feeling that the […]

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