The Other McCain

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

Warren ‘Got Her Fake Native American Ass Handed to Her’ by Brown in Debate

So says Aleister at American Glob, admitting that his judgment is perhaps not entirely objective. Da Tech Guy was less sanguine: This debate was pretty much a wash, I think that helps Warren because of her slight lead. When a great part of your appeal is likability a debate that makes you want to throw […]

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.21.12 (NATIONALS PLAYOFF HANGOVER EDITION)

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Unscrewing The Polls: Does Romney Actually Have A Double-Digit Lead? Reuters/Ipsos poll over-samples Democrats heavily to produce positive result for Obama; using Rasmussen sampling, poll actually shows ten-point lead for Romney It’s Friday, Time For More Violent Islamic Protests/Riots Islamabad turns into war zone as protests turn violent Cult […]

Obama: An Authentic Phony

Back during the 2008 GOP primary campaign — most of which actually happened in 2007 — I wasn’t yet an independent blogger, but was “a man under authority” at The Washington Times. Working on the news side of the operation, the public expression of my opinions was streng verboten, which of course didn’t mean I […]

A Note on Bill Kristol’s
Arrogant and Stupid Blog Post

In general, the whooping and hollering over a GOP presidential candidate’s gaffe is done by Democrats. Also David Brooks and David Frum. So it was rather shocking to see Bill Kristol come out with a blog post using the phrase “stupid and arrogant” to describe Romney’s remarks. Bill Kristol calls Romney ‘arrogant and stupid’? weeklystandard.com/blogs/note-rom… Kinda not […]

On the Romney Video: ‘The Q&A Didn’t Turn Out as Well as He Had Hoped’

Let’s begin by nominating Jimmie Bise Jr. for the Pulitzer Prize for Humorous Understatement. That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are. Meanwhile, in the Real 1% — the pro-Obama media — the latest furor is over a second clip from the same secret (and possibly illegally recorded) video in which Romney criticizes talk of Mideast […]

VIDEO: ‘A Prairie Fire of Debt’

“A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across the nation. And every day we fail to act, that fire gets closer to the homes and the children we love. And rather than putting out the spending fire, President Obama has been feeding it. He has spent more and borrowed more. The time has come for […]

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘You Didn’t Build That’

Two words: HI-LARIOUS!

Department of Unfortunate Analogies

Perhaps you remember a fellow named Todd Akin. You may wish you could forget having ever heard the name, but I think you probably remember. Think back to the morning of Sunday, Aug. 19. The Republican National Convention was still eight days away, and Isaac wasn’t even a tropical depression yet. And then came the […]

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