The Other McCain

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

If Hillary Can’t Even Handle NPR …

. . . how could she deal with genuinely critical media? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got into a testy exchange with NPR’s Terry Gross on Thursday, as Gross tried to get Clinton to explain her views on marriage equality over time. Gross attempted to get the former secretary of state to explain whether […]

Priorities!

Iraq is on the verge of becoming a failed state overrun by terrorists, and the Obama administration has nothing but empty words to offer. At such a time of international crisis, it’s comforting to know that the Democrat Party has its priorities straight: Four Democratic senators were so appalled by George Will’s widely panned arguments […]

The Politics of Blame

After five years of excuses, straw-man arguments and scapegoating, the Obama administration’s incompetence and irresponsibility have exhausted the patience of many Democrats, Ron Fournier reports: The email hit my in-box at 9:41 p.m. last Wednesday.  From one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington, a close adviser to the White House, the missive amounted to an […]

Victor Davis Hanson Nails It

by Smitty Obama uses a host of emphatics (e.g., Period!, Let me be clear!, Make no mistake about it!) precisely because he seeks to accomplish in speech what he cannot do in fact. Part of the recovery process for this country will be a renewed emphasis on seeing sermons, rather than hearing them.

World’s Youngest Blogger Locates Something Many Thought Extinct

World's Youngest Blogger: "Look! Under the water! The President's credibility!" pic.twitter.com/TwezRnuexB — Quiet PreJuicer (@smitty_one_each) June 2, 2014

#OccupyResoluteDesk PSA

by Smitty @BarackObama isn't good at taking responsibility; he's good at talking about responsibility as if it had been taken. — Quiet PreJuicer (@smitty_one_each) May 26, 2014

Obama: Dream and Reality

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) The aspirational presidency and its predictable failure: When they found him, he was a rare breed: a genuine African American (his father was Kenyan) who thought and talked like the academics on both sides of his family, a product of the faculty lounge who dabbled […]

Hillary Lied, Americans Died

“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing do to with. It’s hard […]

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