The Other McCain

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

‘Patriot Majority PAC’ Is Neither Patriotic Nor Are They a Majority: Discuss

A “union-backed slush fund,” as Kyle Drennen called them in March. I’d never heard of them before, but when their ad bashing Republican Nevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle showed up in rotation on my blog, I decided to find out. Among other things, Patriot Majority PAC claims to “support our troops” and “patriotic policies,” but who do […]

Dem Nominee Faces Porn Charge

This is a classic: South Carolina’s surprise Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is facing a pending felony charge. Court records show 32-year-old Alvin Greene was arrested in November and charged with showing obscene Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student. The felony charge carries up to five years in prison. […]

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 […]

Bush? Homewrecker? That’s Just Sick

by Smitty Powers at Malkin points to CBS News and Sally Quinn blaming the 2000 election loss as a negative impact on their marriage. If there is shred #1 of truth to Wikipedia’s stating that Al Gore is a Baptist, then the reasons for the separation are between them and the Almighty. Were I to […]

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, […]

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