The Other McCain

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

‘Pass This Bill!’ Or … Dont.

Not exactly news from Washington: President Obama launched another wave in his assault on Congress over his jobs bill Saturday, using his weekly radio address to urge Americans contact their representatives in support of the legislation. . . . Obama urged his audience to visit the White House website and read the bill for themselves. […]

Solyndra: Pump and Dump

A Wall Street Journal article quotes an investor in Obama’s bankrupt “green energy” boondoggle describing what the half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee meant: “There was a perceived halo around the loan . . . If we get the loan, then we can definitely go public and cash out.” Ed Lasky at American Thinker explains: The huge loan […]

Solyndra as Symbol and Metaphor

“Where are you going to find a nickel’s worth of business sense in an administration where there’s no private-sector experience? And caution is for lesser mortals, not The One and his chosen crew.” — Glenn Reynolds, “SolarGate Update” The half-billion deficit dollars pissed away on a bankrupt boondoggle of “green jobs” may become the scandal […]

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran Loves The National Labor Relations Board

by Smitty PJ Tatler: The US House has passed HR 2587, the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act. From the National Taxpayers Union: Introduced by Rep. Scott (R-SC), this bill would prevent the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from substituting its judgment for a private employer’s in decisions on how best to manage the employer’s […]

James Carville Brings The Funny

by Smitty Carville at CNN says that the White House should panic, emphasis mine: 2. Indict people. There are certain people in American finance who haven’t been held responsible for utterly ruining the economic fabric of our country. Demand from the attorney general a clear status of the state of investigation concerning these extraordinary injustices […]

Somebody’s Taking My Advice?

One hesitates to presume influence, especially when what one advises is just common-sense stuff that seems obvious. So yesterday I wrote that Republicans should “relentelessly expose the Solyndra scandal” and added: GOP presidential candidates can help maximize the impact of exposure by making Solyndra the focus of their attacks on the incumbent’s policy agenda. We […]

Did You Know the Word ‘Miscegenation’ Was Invented by Democrats as a Smear?

Nineteenth-century American newspapers were, in general, partisan in their politics, and the New York World was a Democrat paper. In 1863, two writers for the World, George Wakeman and David Goodman Croly, wrote a 72-page pamphlet that was published anonymously with the title, Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the […]

Obama’s Down. Can GOP Put Him Out?

“There is only so much disaster-control you can do. When you’re in a disaster, you can spin it as ‘not that bad’ or ‘not my fault’ . . . but you cannot actually spin or speechify a horrific state of affairs into a positive one.” — Ace of Spades, “Obama on the Ropes? Two GOP […]

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