The Other McCain

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

Let EGAD Times Roll

by Smitty Even Greater American Depression: via Nice Deb

GOP To Palin: “‘Go’ Wobbly?”

by Smitty Emphasis mine: C’mon Now, GOP, Don’t Go Wobbly on Us by Sarah Palin on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 12:10pm Please read and pass along this article. We send good conservatives to D.C. to fulfill the promises they made to the electorate, and yet when they stay true to their word the permanent […]

Fiscal Spliff: House GOP Takes A Hit From His Insta-badness

by Smitty No sooner had Glenn Reynolds suggested in his USA Today column: 1. Adopt the Bowles-Simpson Plan. The plan was the product of a bipartisan commission, chaired by Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, appointed by President Obama to address America’s ballooning deficits and national debt. Most experts agree that it’s a pretty […]

Hint: “Don’t Turn Left” X 3 Is Known As “The Hard Way” To Make A Right Turn

by Smitty Via the never boring Sully, The occasionally great @skippystalin says something important, not cloaked in his dreary libertarianism skippy-posts.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-new-… READ IT — Ms. Navillus (@SalaciousSully) December 2, 2012   I read the post, based upon this photo: Emphasis mine: I’m not going to discount entirely the possibility that I’m just a hyper-conservative whackjob […]

‘Roid Rage’ in NFL Shooting?

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher has reportedly murdered his girlfriend and then committed suicide. More details at Buzzfeed Sports. While the motive for this murder-suicide is yet unknown, whenever I see something like this in the news — professional athletes engaged in extreme violence — I automatically suspect it may be a side-effect of […]

At The VA GOP Advance

by Smitty I just took in Morton Blackwell’s post-mortem on the election. He quoted extensively from Goldwater: I had a very exciting time at the Republican National Convention. My conservative allies and I all worked very hard in the presidential election. When I woke up the day after the election, everything I had worked for appeared […]

The Media’s Weird Silence on Soros

The Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti observes how little attention was paid to the recent meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a left-wing fundraising network backed by billionaire George Soros: More likely the media simply ignore data that complicate their preferred narrative. When it comes to the fraught relationship between money and politics, that narrative is as follows: Money […]

The Fiscal Cliff Rub

by Smitty Fiscal Cliff Rub: this has nothing to do with $. This is the last gasp of separation of powers and the House of Reps. @thekingdude — Preservative (@smitty_one_each) November 30, 2012 The Fiscal Cliff Rub: if Boehner can’t show the Constitution meaningful, he should open a massage parlor called ‘Fiscal Cliff’ and give […]

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