The Other McCain

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

AllahPundit Is A Month Late, Aims Low

by Smitty Hot Air: Exit question: Greene in 2014? This blog had a better idea in the middle of last month: Where Is Your Gallows Humor? Alvin Greene For President In 2012! This guy is BHO without all the Ivy League nonsense. Go for it, boss!

British Chocolate Millionaire’s Hedge Fund Buys 241,000 Tons of Cocoa Beans

A real-life Willie Wonka: Anthony Ward, 50, bought 241,000 tons of cocoa beans and now owns enough to manufacture 5.3 billion quarter-pound chocolate bars. Mr Ward, who is worth around £36 million, holds so much of the market he could force manufacturers to raise the price of Britain’s favourite chocolate bars . . . The […]

Angelo M. Codevilla, Populist

OK, he’s a professor emeritus at Boston University, but his new article at The American Spectator is a 12,000-word indictment of the nation’s ruling class so thorough that I can only snap my suspenders and say, “Harumph!”

Fruit, Vegetable, Or Solid Red Meat?

by Smitty (h/t NiceDeb) One clip is the fruit of a corrupt mind, the other is from the Onion. They’re both creepy. Seriously: have public speakers in the United States always engaged in the kind of deliberate deceit that this Shelton fellow does, or has the merger of news, entertainment and politics taken propaganda in […]

Incentivizing the Anti-Palin Slime

Chris Bodenner at The Atlantic Monthly: The link is to Jesse Griffin of the Immoral Minority blog, who perpetrated the Palin divorce hoax of August 2009, and who was forced to resign as a kindergarten aide at an Anchorage elementary school after his porn-blogging habits were exposed. Griffin, Dennis Zaki, Jeanne Devon — when it […]

If You Don’t Hit My Tip Jar . . .

. . . maybe I can get the federal government to subsidize me: Both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission are undertaking studies of ways to ensure the steep economic decline faced by newspapers and broadcast news does not deprive Americans of the essential information they need as citizens. One idea under […]

Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas): ‘Don’t Accuse Me of Not Saying the Truth!’

Remember when Democrats declared “dissent was the highest form of patriotism”? Somebody forgot to explain to Ciro that dissenting about health care statistics is also patriotic: (Via Big Government, Breitbart TV and Memeorandum.) UPDATE: Dan Riehl has another video clip illustrating Rodriguez’s anger issues.

‘You Could See Him As A Thinner Chris Christie’

by Smitty PowerLine embeds a Pawlenty stump speech, and floats the idea of a 2012 run: Tim Pawlenty is a likable fellow. When he came to Virginia to support Bob McDonnell in 2009, I enjoyed his stump speedspeech at very close range. He seems to be about as moderate a candidate as you’ll find without […]

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