The Other McCain

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

Mead Seems Unaware Of How Perverse Use Of Technology By Government Is Wrecking Liberty

by Smitty I’ve been mocking Walter Russell Mead’s series on what the next round of Liberalism will look like. Part IV could be summarized as “Ain’t technology swell?” An inevitable question as we look at the demise of the 20th century economy is how shall we live? As the manufacturing that remains to us becomes [...]

I Present To The Instapundit The Following Dilemma: Zeeba, Or Roseanne?

by Smitty In case you can’t tell them apart, there are no known recordings of Zeeba trashing the National Anthem. But Roseanne Barr is running for POTUS. Three cheers for democracy and hearing protection. More at American Glob.

Mead’s Rose Colored Glasses: Still Fetching

by Smitty Part two of Mead’s geosynchronous review of the Progressive cratering is up. Read the whole series, if you’ve time: Right now the right has something of a monopoly on this thinking, but when and if the left begins to reconnect with the ideas of emancipation and empowerment that are part of its historical [...]

It Will Be Interesting To See If Mead Has Read Golberg, Or Listened To Whittle

by Smitty Via Insty, this new series by Walter Russell Mead is either going to get meatier, or stay out in geosynchronous orbit and suck: It is, of course, a very similar situation today. The forces ripping up our old social model are too powerful to beat. That is not because the rich bankers or [...]

The Elephant In The Fail Room

by Smitty From Has the conservative elite really failed? Alan Greenspan, a free-market hero, blundered horribly in failing to regulate shadow banking, followed by another Republican appointee, Ben Bernanke. They forgot the old adage that the job of a central banker is to take away the punch-bowl just as the party is getting good. If [...]

The Instapundit Likes To Juxtapose

by Smitty Ebert says movies suck, costing too much and delivering too little. Not unlike the government, for all we wish the government would deliver less at times. Also Chris Dodd is the head buffoon in charge of the MPAA. I look at this news and see a great opportunity to plug Declaration Entertainment, Bill [...]

You Can View The Uncertainty With Trepidation, Or As An Opportunity

by Smitty Insty links Sandbrook at the Daily Mail going all doom and gloom. The situation for 2012 recalls the angst of 1932, with thuggish leaders aplenty today to pick up where fascism of old left off. But Proof Positive has a quote that cuts to the chase: “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves [...]

Et Tu, Blackburn?

by Smitty Early last month I was singing the praises of Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who was taking a bold stand against Net Neutrality and FCC over-reach at the Defending the Dream summit. Via Instapundit, we discover that the legacy media are funding the Stop Online Piracy Act in a big way. The bill, known as [...]

War With Iran? Cue The Fear!

by Smitty Instapundit relays the Mead: In a recent interview with CBS news anchor Scott Pelley, Panetta said “the United States does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That’s a red line for us”. He continued: “We will take whatever steps are necessary to stop them”. A nuclear Iran is “unacceptable”. When US [...]

Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Destroy Jobs for New York Cafe Workers

Waiters, cooks, dishwashers, busboys — they’re the 99% whose economic interests the protesters never gave a damn about: Milk Street Cafe, the restaurant whose business dried up in the face of the Occupy Wall Street barricades, is shutting down. . . . Milk Street Cafe’s closure will result in the layoff of 70 workers. That’s on [...]

They Told You If You Voted for John McCain, Right-Wingers Would Threaten to Lynch Black Men …

. . . and they were right! OK, that’s not likely to get me a “Heh.” Professor Reynolds was featuring a Matt Welch Reason TV video about President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise of a “net spending cut,” and made a dry jest: By the end, we may see profligate politicians hanging from lampposts.  But there’ll [...]

Did I Ever Mention …

. . . that I live about a mile from the Appalachian Trail? And that my teenage sons have a pretty serious gun collection? The reason I mention this is because Professor Glenn Reynolds linked to an article on a survivalist site about the “Redoubt of the East,” which the author describes as the mountains [...]

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