The Other McCain

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

If The Strategy Was Always Propaganda, Why Is A Charging Instrument That Sounds Like The Squawk Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask A Surprise?

by Smitty Allahpundit is confused, probably because he’s screwing up and attempting rational analysis of a Lefty ploy again: I don’t understand Corey’s strategy in charging him with murder two. Maybe she thinks Zimmerman will plead to a lesser charge, but if it’s anything less than manslaughter she’s going to take tremendous heat for having [...]

Maslow And The Conversation On Race

by Smitty I’ve been busier than a fringe candidate trying to figure out how to stay in the Presidential race lately, and blogging has suffered. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading blogs and thinking. There is a crucial point to be made if we cast the recent Derbyshire article, as well as less [...]

Derbyshire, Goldstein and Lowry

The Bonfire of the Derbyshire has burnt itself out, although some latecomers are still poking around in the ashes. Liberals have reassured themselves of their moral superiority. Rich Lowry has reassured himself of his own editorial adequacy. And all is right with the world. Except of course, it’s not really. The wheels keep turning, and [...]

Profiles in Narcissism: Charles Johnson Blinded by His Own Self-Righteousness

Among the books I most often recommend are The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Thomas Sowell, 1995) and The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch, 1979). Thoughtful readers familiar with both books will understand how the phenomenon described by Sowell — liberals [...]

Rich Lowry’s Editorial Impotence?

A communiqué from the regime: “Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.” Yes, but have you fired him for it, Rich? What the hell kind of “needless to say” bulls–t are you trying to [...]

They Told Me If I Voted For McCain, ‘White Folks’ Would ‘Keep’ Charter Schools For Themselves!

by Smitty “If charter schools were so good, why didn’t the white folks keep them for themselves?” This isn’t just wrong; it’s discouraging. When you look at the photo album of Washington DC charter schools, they may not fit the Chicago narrative. Nor, in fact, does the funding news. But its not the reality of [...]

Use ‘Derbyshire’ as a Verb

It’s an interesting word-game concept, eh? For years, I’ve advocated the overthrow of the decadent Rich Lowry regime at National Review, hoping that Jonah Goldberg might lead the coup. So my main interest in this remarkable controversy is whether or not it serves to undermine Lowryism. What you might not notice is that this is a [...]

The Trayvon Martin Song

by Smitty Here’s a shout out to the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex, busy exploiting a tragedy, to pile evil upon evil: Hoodies on high! Minds tightly closed! #Occupy slouches with quite unsteady step. Comrades shot by the white racist reactionaries March in spirit within our ranks. Clear the streets for the brown battalions, Clear the streets [...]

Rick Santorum And The Traditional Justice System

by Smitty Jeffery Levin on Twitter points to The Hill, where Rick Santorum seems strangely unconvinced about the wisdom of a national conference on race in the era of Hope’n’Change: The question. . .was posed to Santorum by talk radio host Laura Ingraham Monday. “Absolutely not,” Santorum said. “This is either a very disturbed man [...]

Piers Morgan: ‘What a Load of Fatuous Nonsense You Speak, Touré, Don’t You?’

OK, I almost never watch CNN and hadn’t previously had a high opinion of Piers Morgan, but on the other hand, I’d never heard of this Touré character at all, until I saw the Breitbart headline: MSNBC’s Touré Has Epic Race-Baiting Meltdown On CNN So I wondered what the heck this was about. Watch the video: [...]

The Riot Ideology

Yesterday, I mentioned Fred Siegel’s The Future Once Happened Here in connection with the Trayvon Martin case. Siegel’s book is one of those timeless classics — like Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed — that I frequently recommend as guides to understanding important social phenomena more deeply. [...]

Right-Winger Provoking ‘Insane’ ‘Racist’ Tea Party Violence … by Chris Rock?

“When Celebrities Attack,” starring Jason Mattera: Ed Morrissey has a point: Even if you think “ambush” interviews are unfair, shouldn’t it be obvious that attacking the camera is a bad idea? Welcome to the Bob Etheridge School of Media Relations!  

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