The Other McCain

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

Leadership 102: Stand By Your People

by Smitty (h/t Gateway Pundit) It’s probably not an initial lesson in leadership, but, after a while, some fertilizer hits the air circulator, and a real leader has to stand by the troops. Hopefully, there is a foundation of communication, confidence, trust, and a clearly articulated direction of movement. If a subordinate makes an unforced […]

Important New Theory In Alleged March Racial Epithet Incident

by Smitty Power Line notes the NYT partially walks back the claim of the infamous word falling between ‘bigger’ and ‘rigger’ being used at the Kill the Bill protest in March. there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party […]

NBC Interviews Breitbart

First, I would object to this headline: Blogger: It’s about NAACP, not fired worker Andrew Breitbart is not just a “blogger.” Not to be derogatory of the blogosphere, but Breitbart is New Media mogul who may yet prove to have the kind of revolutionary influence in the online world that Rush Limbaugh had in talk […]

Irony Alert: Eric Boehlert Is an Expert on What Is ‘Ugly and Contemptible’

“. . . that didn’t stop him from launching the smear campaign. And that’s what Andrew Breitbart and Fox News and the right-wing media does. They’ve been doing it for a long time and it’s sort of ugly and contemptible, and if he had any decency, he’d apologize to Shirley Sherrod. He’d also stop with […]

There Are Some Things That Only Democrats Can Get Away With; UPDATE: Shirley Sherrod Resigns!

Including public declarations of racial discrimination: Speaking of rural Georgia, if you live in Georgia’s 12th District and don’t like being represented by Shirley Sherrod’s fellow Democrat John Barrow, remember to vote Tuesday for Ray McKinney, who just got endorsed by the Tea Party Express. UPDATE: Fox News: The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published […]

‘Jeremiah, You Demented Old Bastard’

Doug Hagin’s Daley Gator podcast examines Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology: Doug’s talking about this video posted at Weasel Zippers:

Who Is Todd Gaziano?

That’s the question raised by the Ben Smith column at Politico in which Abigail Thernstrom accuses her fellow Republican members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission of exploiting the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in pursuit of “their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.” Thernstrom herself is well-known as a […]

Repeat After Me: Raaaaacism Is DNA-Based Decision Making

by Smitty Also, sexism. ‘Diversity’, in the Progressive Inverted Tongue (PIT)*, just means that some Affirmative Action mafia manages the raaaaacism, ‘white’ washing it with the magic squiggle (signature) of some bureaucrat. La Shawn Barber points to a post at Minding the Campus, where Russell K. Nieli explores “How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and […]

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