The Other McCain

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

What All the Cool Kids Are Wearing

You know you want to buy one of these T-shirts:

CPAC Day 3.1* Andrew Breitbart Is Standing in Front of Me in the Blogger Lounge

Q&A — “despicable human being“? *Update (Smitty) Stacy McCain: Jason Mattera, a Puerto Rican was called racist by the New York Times after his CPAC talk yesterday. Breitbart: Despicable but predictable. The political left is frightened because the right has been awakened. The left’s only tactic is to destroy people personally. They play the race […]

CPAC: Courage Under Fire Award

CPAC is awarding a Charleton Heston ‘Courage Under Fire Award’, a Pennsylvania flintlock rifle, to Doug Hoffman and Mike Long. Long asks of the weapon, how am I supposed to get this home with Bloomberg in New York.’ Doug thanks Senator Fred Thompson and all those who supported.

CPAC Day 1.0: Marco and Me

WASHINGTON, D.C. After sundry misadventures this morning, I’m now online in the Bloggers Lounge at CPAC. Last night, I got on an elevator here at the fabulous Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and thought I recognized one of my fellow passengers. “Excuse me, but you look familiar. I’m Robert Stacy McCain . . .” “Hi, I’m […]

It’s Easy To Pile On The Ice

by Smitty There was massive enthusiasm, about “The Green Zamboni – a Canadian icon fights climate change” just a couple of months ago. Zambonis at the men’s speedskating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics were to be a vast improvement. Past all of the granola-head posturing, they were trying something new, as this blog did […]

One Factual, The Other Fictional, Both Arrive At Buffoon

by Smitty It’s not often that you read Victor Davis Hanson and find yourself thinking of a Paco Enterprises foray in farce. Yet, VDH’s essay on the bumblings of Bidenism does exactly that: put one in mind of Paco’s delightfully silly sendup of the Norwegians tryin’ ta reclay-em they-er medal. If only Biden’s single-heartbeat proximity […]

Well, Now, Mr. Wurzelbacher

by Smitty (h/t Dan Riehl) That’s just a bit out of the plumbing aisle, now isn’t it? Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he […]

Matt Welch: Meh

by Smitty (h/t Insty) It’s something of a tangent from Welch’s main point over at Reason, but his characterization of conservatives as unsophisticated is exactly that: Speaking only for myself, I don’t see libertarianism moving rightward, I see rightward moving libertarian. Which is to be expected, what with the whole not-having-power thing (as Kilgore points […]

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