The Other McCain

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

‘Scientology as a Criminal Conspiracy’

This phrase occurs in an article about the bizarre science-fiction cult that my friend Jamie Kirchick published last month: The broad contours of Scientology’s inception are well-known: In 1950, the pulp sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard published a self-help book called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which humbly claimed itself to be “a milestone […]

Hitler: ‘My Main Goal of Supporting the German Community Outweighed the Collateral Damage to Poland …’

This is a slight paraphrase of how the obnoxious a–hole justifies his bullying of a Chick-fil-A employee at a drive-through window: Adam Smith berates a Chick-fil-A employee, got fired, and now has released a new video apologizing to Rachel, who was his drive-thru victim. He goes on about how she handled his rant with grace, […]

Slander on the Senate Floor: Harry Reid Repeats Romney Tax Accusation

Ed Morrissey calls it “despicable and grossly irresponsible,” while Jeff Goldstein predicts there will be a harsh backlash against Reid’s tactics: The arrogance of power can be truly astonishing to watch. Harry Reid hasn’t passed a budget in nearly four years, and has obstructed every meaningful effort to reduce the out-of-control federal deficit. For Reid — a […]

Is Anyone Surprised by This News?

Neutral objective journalist George Stephanopoulos must be shocked: A deputy press secretary for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign married an ABC reporter over the weekend. The ABC reporter, Matthew Jaffe, “covering the 2012 presidential campaign,” according to his biography on the website of ABC News. “For the past year he traveled around the country covering the […]

Paul Krugman Couldn’t Manage A Paper Route. Who In Their Right Mind Would Nominate Him For Fed Chair?

by Smitty Admittedly, newspapers are headed down the extinction trail on our current national course, along with liberty. So in that sense, why not hand over the Federal Reserve to a boob like Kruge?” [Quantitative Easing] is very uncertain in its effect, but the [Federal Reserve] should be doing more of that.” For something relatively […]

Will the Last Democrat Leaving Missouri Please Turn Out the Lights?

The state that once gave America such powerful Democrats as Harry Truman and Dick Gephardt is now turning deep, deep Republican red: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) trails all three of her potential Republican rivals, according to a new survey conducted for two Missouri news outlets, cementing her status as this cycle’s most vulnerable incumbent. Businessman John […]

St. Louis Post-Disgrace

The World’s Worst Excuse for a Daily Newspaper today published an editorial of unimaginable wretchedness, comparing Republicans to Stalin — yes, Stalin — for their opposition to ObamaCare. Republicans, according to this perverse analogy, are the moral equivalent of a genocidal mass murderer because a study by the New England Journal of Medicine found that a certain number of non-insured […]

Didn’t A Horse Pull The Cart With The Stones That Built The Appian Way?

by Smitty RT @DeliciousJoe: “You might be an idiot if you think the road built your business, and not the other way around”- Rand Paul #FreePac #tcot — John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 27, 2012 So much of our current political challenge seems to be overcoming the cart-horse reversal that is Progressivism: People aren’t necessarily that […]

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