The Other McCain

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

Experience Matters: Old Man Schieffer Puts Young Punk Pfeiffer in His Place

“It looks like they’ve lost Bob Schieffer,” says John Hoge, which might be a slight exaggeration. Schieffer is a liberal, but he’s also a veteran Washington journalist who has seen enough scandals to know what a scandal looks like, and he was having none of the Jedi mind trick — “These are not the scandals […]

Shorter Dan Pfeiffer: ‘Your Partisan Questions Are So Largely Irrelevant and Offensive, I’m Not Going to Answer Them’

When the White House sent Obama’s senior adviser out to do five Sunday shows, his orders were obviously to claim that (a) only Republicans care whether the administration is lying about Benghazi, and (b) the answer to any question about Benghazi is “largely irrelevant”: Wallace repeatedly asked Pfeiffer where the president was and what he […]

Should IRS Standards for 501(c) Groups Require Proof of ‘Social Welfare’ Purpose?

That’s what “many Democrats” seem to be saying: “Partisanship or the perception of politics has no place in the IRS,” acting commissioner Steven Miller said in a brief opening statement to the Ways and Means Committee . . . And many Democrats turned to what they saw as the bigger issue: A tax code that […]

Benghazi and Other ‘Concocted’ Scandals

U.S. consulate, Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012 “Fraud flows from the top down, not the mid-level up. Mid-level officials in the White House and the State Department do not call the shots — they carry out orders.” — Andrew McCarthy Well, that’s just “common sense,” but what does common sense count for nowadays? In an […]

Our Lawless President: Obama’s IRS Thuggery Certainly Was No Coincidence

Dan Collins calls attention to Obama’s dog-whistle tactics, as described by Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal: The way to limit Romney money was to intimidate donors from giving. Donate, and the president would at best tie you to Big Oil or Wall Street, at worst put your name in bold, and flag you […]

President Cosmic Lightworker Expresses Disappointment in Mere Mortals at IRS

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “Difficult as it may now be to recall, there were once ‘spiritually advanced people’ who looked at this Chicago machine politician and saw ‘a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being . . . who can actually help usher in a new way of being […]

ObamaGate Scandal Mania!

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) After the band Unfettered Access broke up in ’94, the drummer and singer joined Inappropriate Criteria | @ladowd — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 15, 2013 @ladowd @rsmccain wasn’t their first single “I Know Nothing” from the album “I Appreciate the Question”? — Jason(@Veritas1977) May […]

The Fate of Basseley Nakoula

Whatever happened to Nakoula, whose video didn’t really inspire the ‘demonstration’ that didn’t actually happen in Benghazi? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 13, 2013 @rsmccain Nakoula is in La Tuna Federal prison in West Texas bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFi… Scheduled for release on 9/26/13 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) May 13, 2013 “Hillary’s promise of vengeance to the […]

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