The Other McCain

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

Howard Kaloogian Is A Completely Unreasonable, Rabid, Extremist Tea Party Fiend And Stuff

by Smitty No, really, he clocks in here as sort of a mellow fellow who could be your neighbor. A couple of questions fronted in this interview with of PJTV are: Can the Tea Party co-exist with the GOP? Can the GOP survive without the Tea Party? It seems that there will have to be […]

Stacy Should Advise His Cousin To Consider Retirement

by Smitty Barbara Espinosa posts some medium-devastating details about Senator McCain’s Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues: Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain’s Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called “campaign finance reform” movement – a movement which has done nothing to clean up […]

Karl Rove, the Bush Dynasty, and the GOP Elite’s Push for ‘Immigration Reform’

Steve Sailer attempts to explain the otherwise inexplicable disaster: On the personal side, George and Barbara Bush employed a live-in Mexican maid, Paula Rendon, of whom W. has said, “I have come to love her like a second mother.” He went on to employ another Mexican immigrant, Maria Galvan, to raise his two daughters. Younger brother […]

Just Booked My Flight: Vegas, Baby!

“Free Enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. . . . Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. … […]

On The Value Of Flogging Senator McCain

by Smitty This is not a defense of the gentleman, fellow IFNAG (Idiot Frickin’ Naval Academy Graduate) though he may be. In seeing the country’s arc as sinusoidal, I’m not sure that we’d have been better in the long run with a JSM administration. It’s all counter-factual now, but I submit that with a President […]

Palate Cleanser Video: Republican Governors Association

by Smitty Spot friggin’ on: The Progressives want you to feel like the demise of what is good in the country is inevitable, so that they can replace liberty with Federal slavery. Bring on the Article 5 suppository, ye governors: From the comic book Joker to his Progressive offspring in DC:

The Bigger Picture

by Smitty Via Moonbattery, we have a sobering summary of 14 months of Constitutional demolition:. If it looks like our separation of powers is collapsing towards an autocratic Executive, you may be perceptive. Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello admits the truth: Why is the Federal government behaving so indiscriminately? Because it has the Federal Reserve, that’s […]

‘Money, Money, Money’

From my latest American Spectator column:  A perception that the GOP establishment routinely rigs primaries in favor of the well-financed and well-connected is widespread among grassroots conservatives. Disillusioned by the political equivalent of insider trading, some idealistic Republicans are tempted to walk away from active participation in GOP politics, which would leave the party infrastructure […]

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