The Other McCain

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

Bitter Fruits of a Bitter Seed: Envy, Feminism, Maureen and Meghan

HOLLIS, N.H. Time constraints have improved my ability to ignore Maureen Dowd. Many months now often elapse between my ever bothering to notice anything she’s written. Today, however, Pete Da Tech Guy called my attention to Ms. Dowd’s unseemly assault on Rick Santorum’s family. And then Pete sat down and wrote a rather stunning contrast [...]

Is Paul Krugman Simply Immoral?

by Smitty From Nobody Understands Debt, emphasis mine: Deficit-worriers portray a future in which we’re impoverished by the need to pay back money we’ve been borrowing. They see America as being like a family that took out too large a mortgage, and will have a hard time making the monthly payments. This is, however, a [...]

Show Me This ‘Social Contract’, Krugman

by Smitty Your latest piece of farce is titled ‘The Social Contract‘, and you quote Elizabeth Warren on the topic: Elizabeth Warren, the financial reformer who is now running for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, recently made some eloquent remarks to this effect that are, rightly, getting a lot of attention. “There is nobody [...]

NYT Editor: ‘We Wanted to Believe’

Another rube self-identifies: Just a few winters ago my wife and I took our daughters to witness the inauguration of a man who had campaigned on hope and embodied possibility. We are pretty immune to political euphoria, but, circulating among the footsore pilgrims, we could imagine our country had embraced the idea that we were [...]

Talk Like A Pirate Day, Twitter, And The NYT: ‘Tis A Merry Convergence

Paul Krugman Remains Free To Drop An Upper-Decker

by Smitty People may object to the use of a scatalogical term to describe a Krugman excretion, but I submit that the level of perversion on display by the gentleman supports the label. Allow me to object to Krugman’s choice of historical time frame, scope of analysis, boring guilt play, and refusal to understand federalism. [...]

Pardon Me While I Run The Fisk Bus Over Loco MoDo A Time Or Twa

by Smitty Fisking a Maureen Dowd column. It’s the blogger version of calisthenics, really. Maureen Dowd Smitty One day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.” Rules [...]

Jonah Goldberg, in Fine Form

Worked up into a long-overdue rant: Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as [...]

Krugman, STFU!

by Smitty Sitting There Feeling Useless sits Paul Krugman, unable to grasp that the American people aren’t buying his swill. The worst thing you can do in these circumstances is slash government spending, since that will depress the economy even further. Can you not grasp reality, man? Government Spending Triggers Fiscal Undertows. Only somebody with [...]

Pamela Geller Linked by New York Times

Not in a good way, but by a couple of Norwegian writers blaming her (and “Islamophobia”) for the Oslo massacre: Hatred of Muslims and resentment of the left — one of us has repeatedly received resentful diatribes against the “multiculturalist elite,” and was mentioned in Mr. Breivik’s own writings — is not confined to Norway. [...]

New York Times to Herman Cain: ‘Hey, You’re Kind of Black, Aren’t You?’

They sent a reporter to interview Herman Cain during the Right Online conference, and the first four questions in the interview are about race. Not like they’re obsessed or anything. Meanwhile, here’s the last video from the Cain campaign: HERMAN CAIN for PRESIDENT Because The New York Times Would Go Nuts

The Semi-Smear

“If you agree with him, you think what he does is citizen journalism. If you don’t, his work is little more than crowd-sourced political sabotage that freely distorts the facts.” – Jeremy W. Peters, “The Right’s Blogger Provocateur,” New York Times No need to guess which view of Andrew Breitbart the New York Times endorses. [...]

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