The Other McCain

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

Thought Experiment For Stephanie Coontz

by Smitty A fine outpouring of feminist piffle: ONE thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood. Men are now experiencing a set of limits — externally enforced as well as […]

An Opportunity For Romney To Run Affirmative Action Right Up The Middle

by Smitty Via Althouse, we have Politico pointing to the 10 October SCOTUS argument on Affirmative Action: In court briefs, the Obama administration has backed the University of Texas’s right to run its affirmative action program. It’s being challenged by Abigail Fisher, a white undergraduate applicant who was denied admission. But Obama aides have a […]

‘You Didn’t Build That’? Don’t Try Telling That to Jack Gilchrist

He doesn’t have a free cellphone, and he’s not the 47 percent:

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink

by Smitty Say. No. More!

Cracking Under Pressure?

DAYTON, Ohio No, not me. I haven’t lost it yet. I’m talking about Team Obama telling reports to “f–k off,” among other things. The situation is not as rosy for the Democrats as the media would have you think, but I’m under pressure — gotta drive to an event in Cincinnati this morning — so […]

The ‘Yute’ Vote Confronts The Empty Chair

by Smitty What can I say? I voted for Perot in ’92.

Fast and Furious — in Libya?

Dan Collins is just askin’ questions: So, eyewitnesses are saying that not only wasn’t the movie the cause of the attack, but that there wasn’t any protest of the movie prior to the attack. Suspicion now falls on an al-Qaeda operative who was sent from Gitmo to Gaddafi in 2007, after Gaddafi agreed to keep […]

E-Mail From Bert, the Samoan Lawyer

Commenting on some recent events, and quite interesting: How many of the purported Republicans and/or conservatives that have been pronouncing Romney a sure loser in the last three weeks are among those that, during the primaries, said the GOP had to nominate him because he was the only one who could win? Of those, how […]

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