The Other McCain

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

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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 […]

For The Record, Valerie Jarrett, We All Know Who Is The Divider-In-Chief

by Smitty She does not, as Breitbart claims, explicitly name the network that does not take editorial direction from her, but one may infer the network whose name rhymes with ‘jocks’ from Valerie’s line of bollocks: The atmosphere in all 57 states will improve when that Jezebel is distanced from the levers of power.

Fourth Of July Message From A Leader

by Smitty Would that some others one could name were possessed of such clarity: via Brietbart For contrast, via The Lonely Conservative we have:

Soldier’s Angels: Anybody Want To Get Wrecked In A Game Of Cribbage?

by Smitty Soldier’s Angels is a fine charity. Since I’m not traipsing about the Hindu Kush, dressed like a modern centurion, sweating my hoo-hah off this year, it seems like time to get with the program. This blog would like to do something outlandish, unusual, and totally Navy. I will crush all comers with a […]

Now And Then Walter Russell Mead Says Something Way Out There

by Smitty Mead on Soros on Europe: . . .see what one of the EU’s truest friends thinks about the future of the “fantastic object” on which so many hopes have been placed. The Soros article that Mead references is here. For a quick skim (I’ve reviewed Soros’s ideas here) the main thing still missing […]

Are Americans Homophobic Because They Won’t Bother To Buy This Noise?

by Smitty I suppose the newly gay Green Lantern might sell in ‘Frisco, New York, and Addams-Morgan. But how many heterosexual parents with hopes of grandchildren are actually going to expose children to this dead end? My guess is: not enough to keep the story going, irrespective of the rest of its artistic merit. Fact […]

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