The Other McCain

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

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 […]

Heston

by Smitty

Satan Loves the Media ‘Veepstakes’

There is nothing — nothing — in politics that is less useful than pundits sitting around blathering about who the presidential nominee is going to choose as his running mate. Grant that most pundit blather about politics is fairly useless, and yet there is still a special place in Hell reserved for people who waste our […]

Bucket List: Top Billing On A @TwitchyPolitics Post

by Smitty [applause] Thank you. Thank YOU. Oh, and Thank you, too. I’d also like to thank the Academy, and Robert Stacy McCain’s bad self for roping me into blogging and social media. [applause] Finally got to that pinnacle of Twitter success, the Twitchy post. Sure, I’d participated in the hash tag games before, but […]

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