The Other McCain

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

The Coffee Party: It’s About Hate

Newsweek does a feature story about Annabelle Park, who started the liberal answer to the Tea Party movement and discovered an unfortunate truth: They were angry. They hated the Tea Party, and the Republican Party. They wanted to get even. One audience member said America was under the thumb of oligarchs and denounced “moneyed interests.” […]

Alex Spillius: How Many Tea Parties Have You Attended?

by Smitty Have you been to any Tea Party events in the last year, Alex? (Emphasis/formatting mine) The Tea Party. What is it? How long will it last? The longer I report on this the more I think that the answer is a) disgruntled Republicans b) as long as it takes Republicans to win back […]

Mark Potok and the Hijacking of ‘Hate’

It was 1997 and I was a columnist for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune when the latest copy of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Intelligence Report” arrived at the office. Looking for some local angle in the report — my editor’s mantra was “local, local, local” — I flipped to the map in the back where, with […]

‘The Power To Tax Is The Power To Destroy’

by Smitty (via Insty) Kansas City.com quotes Prof. Reynolds: Everyone should pay at least some income tax. And everyone’s tax bill should go up or down whenever federal spending does. KC.com then asks: Is there a way to more closely align politicians’ incentives with the nation’s long-term financial interest? It’s a lot tougher than it […]

The Left’s New Political Judo Tactic Revealed!

by Smitty Gateway Pundit reports on the arrest of 25 SEIU demonstrators at a single event, as opposed to 0 people at Tea Party protests which numberd. . .a lot. One sees that this is all really a double-secret head fake. If SEIU can just lure the Tea Parties into a game of one-upsmanship, then […]

Exclusive Video: Andrew Breitbart Responding To Joan Walsh

by Smitty Previously in this blog, in the “Joan Walsh: The Smoker She Drinks, The Player She Gets” episode, we explored Joan’s ludicrous assertion of earlier, pre-racial epithet video from March 20th at the Capitol Building being used in place of some hypothetical footage that would substantiate the false claims. Walsh: As a friend notes, […]

No Sheeples Thanks The POTUS

by Smitty . . .in a ‘Say hello to my YouTube bulldozer‘ sort of way: BHO’s support continues to be lackluster. When the remaining 40+% who are his chief supporters realize he views them more as his corpse constituency than his core constituency, then he will probably set the all-time floor for approval, getting his […]

The American Spectator: ‘Tea Time Again’. Also, Tee Time For Crist

by Smitty Stacy is probably about to blow a gasket from the last fortnight’s activities, starting in Searchlight, Nevada, going through the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, the really important stuff like Smittypalooza, and, finally the Tax Day Tea Party. But he did make his midnight deadline for The American Spectator. Here is a taste, but […]

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