The Other McCain

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

Mark Oxner Ad: Pure Awesome. Or Is That Orwellian Fright?

by Smitty This is both a political ad against Alan Grayson, and a sobering vignette that holds true for the whole country: Mark Oxner for Congress Alan Grayson’s reasonable future job is Barack Obama’s caddy

California Liberals to Latino Small Business Owners: ‘No Way, José!’

Liberals love Latinos, right? Except in California. Except when the Latinos in question are small business owners who sell tacos from food trucks. Steven Greenhut explains at Reason magazine: Desperate for cash, state officials now make unrealistic estimates of their sales and employ heavy-handed tactics, they explain. To make matters worse, the truck owners say that […]

Florida Source: Sex Accusation Against Lieutenant Governor ‘Total Bullsh*t’

Just talked to a Florida source who assures me that there is no truth to the accusations made against Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. The claim, made by a disgruntled ex-employee, that Carroll had a lesbian affair with her assistant Beatriz Ramos is “total bullsh*t,” my source says. Known to friends as “Bibi,” Ramos is […]

Florida: The Crazy State

The competition for Craziest State in the Union has always been fierce. It has been said that South Carolina is too small to be a republic, but too large to be a lunatic asylum. Yet in recent decades, California has been recognized as foremost in sheer madness, rivaled only by Louisiana. Now, however, California must yield the […]

‘They’re Demoralized as Hell!’

Jammie Wearing Fools recently pointed out that the June fundraising numbers inspired a sense of panic at Obama HQ, with one anonymous Democrat saying, “If people are freaked out, I think they should be freaked out.” And you can expect the Democrat freakout to intensify next Friday when we get the official FEC reports for […]

Northern Virginia Tea Party Protests Barack Obama, Supports Mitt Romney In Centerville, 14 July 2012

by Smitty Stacy McCain already laid down the 5 W’s on the protest yesterday, but here are more pictures to keep the Tea Partiers stoked. Clicking on images will open them at full size in a blank tab:  The Tea Partiers mustered in the parking lot of a nearby elementary school, so that parking would […]

For @dmataconis: Romney Campaign Bus In Centerville, VA

by Smitty Doug Mataconis is a sharp guy and frequent interlocutor on Twitter. While I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting him in person, but he taps into my lingering well of resentment toward all of the preppy, teacher’s pet, condescending snobs back in high school. May I be wrong, and have the pleasure of […]

Axis Of Fedora Puts Another Two Under The Brim

by Smitty Yesterday at the Barack Obama Elizabeth Warren channeling (quotation is from Roanoke, but I doubt they reloaded the teleprompter) the Axis of Fedora enrolled a couple of new members, joining the ranks of SWAC Girl and Fishersville Mike. Welcome aboard, Marooned in Marin and some guy named Aaron Worthing. The Axis of Fedora […]

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