The Other McCain

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

Oh, That’ll Go Over Like The Vagina Monologues In Quantico

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Breitbart:

The Obama administration’s shifting claims on what took place in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11 became more defiant yesterday when unnamed officials suggested that no amount of security would have mattered in Libya, not even a detachment of US Marines.

Yeah, “unnamed officals”, you’d best ensure that you’re anonymous while tossing the U.S.M.C. under your #Fail bus.

This plaintive whine may actually be true in the sense that a Marine detachment with reasonable ROE would have waded into the attackers before it became too problematic. See what I did there? ROE vs. wade? I kill me. About like the Marines would have whacked these scum. But, strangely, not like the Marines would respond to these officials so quick to opine on tactical matters when the Obama Administration simply needs to slink into the pit of historical shame.

Say hello to the Carter Administration when you get there, Obama.

Update: linked by Jackie Wellfonder

Category: Barack Obama

WHOREGATE!

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 16 Comments

This administration is up to its neck in hired nookie. And not good old-fashioned American hookers, mind you, but foreign whores!

Two members of the White House team may have been involved with prostitutes during President Obama’s April trip to Colombia, according to a report Friday from Fox News.
Fox said it was in possession of a letter from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) informing Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that “two non-[Secret Service] personnel may have had contact with foreign nationals.”

Talk about “shipping jobs overseas” . . .

(Via Memeorandum.)

Category: Corruption, Scandal, Sex

#tcot Some Helpful Random Advice

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 8 Comments

Ever had one of those Rodney Dangerfield days? Yeah, I’ve had about four consecutive months of them. It ain’t easy being me.

Because I had to move — thank you, Brett Kimberlin! — a check for money earned in July, which should have arrived earlier this month, got sent to the wrong address. Today, I’m trying to scrounge up enough cash to get on the road to Ohio to cover the Romney-Ryan bus tour, while constantly being attacked by a swarm of (a) leftist trolls and (b) misguided conservatives who can’t seem to comprehend the meaning of “social engineeering.”

Young people should be advised that if they ever achieve any small measure of success in their lives, they will be hated more for their achievements and virtues than for their faults and failures. Trying to keep focused on actual work under such conditions is extraordinarily difficult. It has taken tremendous effort to continue doing things that are positive and helpful, rather than constantly swatting back at certain people who seem to have decided that my services are of negligible value, so that I may be thrown under the bus — casually, at a whim — for refusing to abandon my friends.

What good would my friendship be, if I were not a loyal friend? And why would adults, who are certainly old enough to understand the value of morale to the success of any endeavor, go out of their way to demoralize me at a time like this? If this is not pure malicious spite, what is it?

“Experience keeps a hard school, but a fool will learn in no other,” Benjamin Franklin sagely advised, and you may inquire of Barrett Brown what lessons he learned on his road to self-destruction. You may write to him at this address:

Barrett Brown #45047177
Mansfield Law Enforcement Center
1601 Heritage Parkway
Mansfield, TX 76063

Tell Barrett I said “hi.” The misguided fool let himself be drawn into someone else’s quixotic delusion and drove himself insane.

I never hated him, but Barrett evidently decided three years ago that I would make a convenient target and, by the time he finished destroying himself, he had forgotten why he hated me.

It’s both humbling and scary to see things like that. God knows how tentative my own grip on sanity has been at times, and how lost I would be if not for God’s blessings, including readers whom I thank sincerely for your continued prayers and support,

— Robert Stacy McCain

 





 

Category: Election 2012, Ohio, Shoe Leather Fund, The Kimberlin Files

VIDEO: David Horowitz Slams Obama’s Attack on Islam Film, First Amendment

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 13 Comments

Nice Deb sets it up for you:

An appalled David Horowitz, appearing on America Live with Megyn Kelly, passionately defended freedom of speech, Thursday, calling the arrest of the anti Islam movie maker, one of the “most disgraceful moments in the history of the American Presidency”, adding “if you don’t have the right of expressing your opinion, however hateful it may be, you don’t have any rights! Americans cannot defend all the other rights they have, if they don’t have free speech!”
“If Muslims are rioting against a film – SHAME ON THEM!” he exclaimed.

It’s not just the content of the message that makes this so powerful, it’s the authority of the messenger. The son of Communist Party parents — a so-called “Red Diaper baby” — David Horowitz was one of the original voices of the New Left in the 1960s. He was an editor of the influential radical journal Ramparts and certainly one of the most thoughtful and responsible spokesman for his generation of leftists. And then a few things happened: The Black Panthers murdered his friend, the Communists won in Vietnam, and Horowitz noticed that what the Left’s victories had produced — both at home and abroad — was the same kind of vast human catastrophe the revolutionary Left had always produced, and which the Right had consistently warned Americans about.

Horowitz’s pride in his intellectual integrity, and his refusal to ignore stubborn facts that were politically inconvenient to the Left, was the seed of an astonishing transformation. There was no one single road-to-Damascus moment, but rather a steady reconsideration of his ideological commitments, a process he called simply “Second Thoughts.” By 1984, he and his longtime editorial colleague Peter Collier were ready to stun their former leftist allies by declaring their support for Ronald Reagan’s re-election.

When I was first finding my way into the world of conservative thought, as an ex-Democrat disillusioned by the leftward excesses of Bill Clinton, one of the books that most helped me understand the fundamental problems of our era was the 1989 Horowitz-Collier compendium, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the ’60s.

Because the 1960s New Left famously staged a “long march through the institutions,” attaining hegemony in academia, the news media and the entertainment industry, they were able to create a false and self-glorifying narrative of the 1960s revolution. The real history of that era is both more complex and more interesting that the simplistic triumphalism of the Left would have you think. The “Second Thoughts” account by Horowitz and Collier, who were eyewitnesses and participants in that revolution, is a powerful story, told fluently and poignantly, with meticulous concern for fact.

If our public education system had any real sense of patriotism and civic responsibility, David Horowitz’s personal memoir, Radical Son, would be on the reading list for every high-school AP/honors-track student in the country. In terms of both literary quality and historical significance, Radical Son should surely be ranked among the best American autobiographies of the 20th century.

Thus, when Horowitz speaks on a contemporary issue, he brings to the subject a seriousness that ought to compel our attention.

 

 


Category: Conservatism 101

Raaaaacist Furniture

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Via Drudge:

A Northwest Austin homeowner, who hung a chair from a tree meant to symbolize President Obama, has taken it down.
The political blog burntorangereport.com first talked about the display in the Spicewood Estates area Wednesday night.
The fold-up chair, with an American flag attached to it, was hung from a tree in front of Bud Johnson’s home and some neighbors complained that it was racist.

I may require some brief fun with a chair, the tree in front of my house, and a camera. Antagonizing people is uncool. But so is this Orwellian noise that even your furniture could be raaaaacist.

Category: Racism

Warren ‘Got Her Fake Native American Ass Handed to Her’ by Brown in Debate

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 3 Comments

So says Aleister at American Glob, admitting that his judgment is perhaps not entirely objective. Da Tech Guy was less sanguine:

This debate was pretty much a wash, I think that helps Warren because of her slight lead. When a great part of your appeal is likability a debate that makes you want to throw rocks at the screen is bad, that could hurt, Scott Brown.

Dan Riehl highlights this excerpt from the Boston Herald:

Sen. Scott Brown immediately targeted Elizabeth Warren’s purported Native American heritage in a heated exchange that kicked off their first debate, saying she “checked the box,” as a minority when “clearly she’s not.”
“The only way to set the record straight is to release your personnel records … and you refuse to release your records, and I think that speaks volumes,” said Brown, who questioned whether Warren received advantages when she identified herself as a minority on law school directories.
He said the story of Warren’s lineage goes to her character

Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection provides an extensive analysis, concluding:

[T]rying to be as neutral as I can, I think Brown helped himself tonight. It wasn’t a knockout, but he won easily on points because Warren needed to demonize him, and he came across as he always comes across, as a regular guy the people can relate to.

Category: Debates, Election 2012, Massachusetts, Senate

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.21.12 (NATIONALS PLAYOFF HANGOVER EDITION)

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Unscrewing The Polls: Does Romney Actually Have A Double-Digit Lead?

Mitt Romney

Reuters/Ipsos poll over-samples Democrats heavily to produce positive result for Obama; using Rasmussen sampling, poll actually shows ten-point lead for Romney


It’s Friday, Time For More Violent Islamic Protests/Riots
Islamabad turns into war zone as protests turn violent

Cult Members Spend Heavily To Acquire New Icons
Big crowds as iPhone5 goes on sale in Asia



POLITICS
Gloves Come Off In Brown/Warren Debate

Scott Brown and Liz Warren before last night’s debate

Flash poll says Brown beat Warren like rented mule
Tweet of the night: “Anyone playing the #MASen #WBZdenate drinking game is probably on their way to the hospital right now” – Sarah Rumpf

Amish Guilty Of Hate Crimes In Ohio Beard-Cuttings

Feds Block NC Sheriff’s Access To ICE Database

Ryan To Tackle Obama On Medicare At AARP Conference

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Corruption Trial Gets Underway

Tim Pawlenty Leaves Romney Campaign To Take Lobbying Job

Chicago Strike Settlement Will Cost Many Teachers Their Jobs

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Whines About HP, Microsoft Using Tax Code To Save Billions



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rebounds On Speculation: NYMEX $93.41, Brent $110.91
Stocks Close Mixed On Thursday
Italy Slashes Growth Estimates For 2012-2013
Norfolk Southern Falls As Profit Echoes FedEx Slowdown
Walmart Aims For First India Store Within 18 Months
Walmart Gives Amazon Kindle The Boot
Wi-Fi On a Plane: More Boeing Planes Get Wireless, Mobile Access
Microsoft Chalks Up Another Patent Win Against Motorola
iPhone Limits Set To Spark Samsung Discounts In Europe
Google Pulls Plug On Free Music Service For PRC
Google “Dominance Abuse” Games Could Earn It A Monster Smack From EU
Borderlands 2: Five Days In Pandora



SPORTS
NATIONALS BEAT DODGERS TO CLINCH D.C.’S FIRST PLAYOFF BERTH SINCE 1933

Playoff Nattitude

Magic number to clinch NL East down to 8 after 4-2 win

Giants Crush Panthers 36-7 Under The Bright Lights

NFL Warns Teams On Confronting Replacement Refs

Rays Rally In 9th To Beat BoSox 7-4

Beltre’s 9th-Inning Dinger Crushes Angels’ Fading Hopes

Reds Clinch Playoff Berth Minus Dusty Baker; Magic Number For NL Central Now 2

Phillies Score 8 In First Inning, Rout Mets 16-1

Could The Tigers’ Cabrera Win The Triple Crown?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Fiona Apple Busted For Hash

Fiona Apple

Haven’t dopers learned to avoid Sierra Blanca, TX yet?

Courtney Stodden Debuts New Look, Mom Slams Plastic Surgery Rumors

Katie Holmes’ Divorce From Tom Cruise Has Been Hard On Suri

Kato Kaelin Admits OJ Offed His Wife

Is Blake Lively Pregnant?

On “X Factor”, How Does Demi Lovato Steer Clear Of Bullying While Criticizing?

Amanda Bynes Booted From Gym Class For Weird Behavior

Former SNL Star To Write “Looney Tunes” Reboot



FOREIGNERS
Iran Behind Cyberattacks On US Banks?
Rajoy Fails To Reach Deal With Catalonia
Assad Confident Regime Will Survive, Predicts Failure Of Rebellion
Libya Offers Further Apology for Ambassador’s Death
Jerusalem Unimpressed By Arab Nuclear “Goodwill Gesture”
Noda Defeats Three DPJ Challengers In Party Vote, Will Remain Japan’s PM
Trinamool Ministers Quit Government Over Economic Reforms; Singh Government Likely To Last Out Its Term
Obama’s Surge In Afghanistan Ends



BLOGS & STUFF
Allahpundit: Romney Tells Obama “If You Want To Change Washington From The Outside, We’ll Give You That Chance In November”
OH SNAP
Power Line: His Mind Is Going Through Them Changes
Fausta: Braack Obama At The Univision Forum
Jonah Goldberg: Obama’s Learned He’s A Failure
Lonely conservative: From “Change” To “You Can’t Change Washington From The Inside”
American Thinker: It’s The Country, Stupid
Legal Insurrection: Brown/Warren Post-Debate Analysis (With Videos)
PJ Tatler: Univision Asks Obama “Shouldn’t You Fire Eric Holder?”
Gateway Pundit: Obama Goon Squad Harasses, Shoves Romney Supporters At Florida Event
Jennifer Rubin: Unanswered Questions About The Libya Attack
Weasel Zippers: Pew Poll Finds Only 15% Of Democrats Think The Economy’s Bad
Da Tech Guy: did Chick-Fil-A Play Its Supporters For Suckers?
Israel Matzav: Jewish Support For Obama Down 7% In Florida From 2008

WyBlog: Trick Or Treat For Redistribution!

Category: Election

It’s Only Lying If You Subscribe To Some Notion Of Truth

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Rand Simberg:

Joe Biden has a bumper-sticker phrase to justify reelecting the president: “Bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive.” Some, such as former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, doubled down on the demagoguery during the Democratic National Convention, declaring that Barack Obama saved not just General Motors, but the auto industry itself. But is it really true that were it not for the president, there would be no American auto industry?

Read the whole thing, forward it to the ignorant Lefties in your life. My main Lefty completely ceased speaking to me, as it was “requiring her to bend too much to maintain our friendship.” (?)

Back on topic, here is a joke:

Q: What is the difference between government intervention in markets and shooting tequila?
A: I don’t know, either. Maybe you’re more likely to run out of tequila before exhausting interest in government intervention.

Irrespective of the outcome of the election, it’s going to be a bumpy ride for the next decade(s). Rediscovering sober truth is crucial to any likelihood of success.

via Insty

Category: Economics
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