The Other McCain

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

Media Bias or Media Accuracy?

When I was an assistant national editor at The Washington Times, one of my pet peeves was when reporters in our Capitol Hill bureau would write about the budget with the idea that they were writing about the government’s money, rather than the taxpayer’s money. This would typically come up when, discussing proposals to reduce tax […]

Can You Say ‘Mandate’?

Sam Foster at American Thinker does the math on the 242-seat GOP House majority and his colleague Bill Zwerger adds about the NY-25 race: The vindication for the NY Tea Party comes from the fact that Mr. Maffei was a true-blue, Obama supporting, Pelosi controlled liberal, who showed a great deal of disdain to any constituents […]

President’s Cousin Devastates BHO’s Centerpiece Legislation

by Smitty The doctor has weighed in. To summarize, the diagnosis is that the President is his own man, and no one can take that away from him, but the country really can’t sustain snorting all this policy Drano. Let’s you and I hold a public discussion on America’s health care for those C-SPAN cameras […]

22-Year-Old ObamaCare Prophecy Video

by Smitty Blame Stacy for re-tweeting some fragment of Suicidal Tendencies lyrics. Shockingly hip of him. In this 1988 recording of heavy equipment rolling downhill, ST provide a glimpse of what the ObamaCare future may look like: Note the John Cusack cameo. Yeah, I owned this on cassette, I think. Speaking of things that come […]

SHOCKER: Doctors Say Lindsay Lohan Doesn’t Actually Have Mental Disorder

She’s not technically crazy, she’s just a part-time lesbian who sometimes makes bad decisions like driving drunk and bleaching her red hair blonde: [T]he doctors who have evaluated Lindsay Lohan at UCLA have concluded she does not suffer from the drug or psychiatric problems that were previously diagnosed. . . . We’re told Lindsay has […]

Allahpundit: We Have To Work On Your Rock’N’Roll Picks

by Smitty (h/t HotAir) One is tempted to move off the anti-triumpnalism stance on the news that, apparently, the Lefty think-tanks are nearing acceptance of that which we knew all along about ObamaCare. Our blue state Col. Jessup overlords figured we couldn’t handle it, though: the truth. When you look at the ultimate slide in […]

Federal Judge Allows Virginia Lawsuit Against ObamaCare to Proceed

Denies Justice Department motion to dismiss: Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson’s decision stemmed from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s claims that Congress exceeded its authority […]

Orwellian Crock, Or: We Took Control Of Health Care Away From Americans, In Order To Put Americans In Control Of Their Health Care

by Smitty (h/t The Lonely Conservative) In defense of President Obama, he’s only half as lame as some other political figures appearing in infomercials. I can do better than that: if giving good website meant giving good health care, we’d be liking life with this effort. Other than the realities that these ideas are un-Constitutional, […]

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