The Other McCain

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

Doug Hoffman Needs Your Help

Mr. K at Jumping in Pools reminds us that the breakthrough Scott Brown made in Massachusetts was, to some extent, made possible by Doug Hoffman’s campaign last year in New York that fell painfully short of victory: [Democrat] Bill Owens would violate four campaign promises in his inaugural 24 hours of work, outraging citizens and […]

Jared Diamond on Haiti

by Smitty This post is prompted by Freeberg. In my pre-blogging days, when I still had time to read stuff, one object of fascination was Collapse, by Jared Diamond. Here is the relevant Wikipedia. I took my copy to work to show to a colleague, which will keep this post mercifully short. What I recall […]

Faint Mumblings, Jumbled, Ricochet About

by Smitty I don’t want to sound jumpy, but I sort of get the impression that something significant may have happenend in the land of Oldsmobile Delmont submarines. I’m just

Little Green Footballs and the ‘Cult of Personality’ Factor in Blogging

Everybody’s now blogging about the New York Times profile of Charles Johnson. Rather than extend the previous post, I’ll collect the reactions in a new post. This aggregation will be extended and updated until it’s time to deliver The Final Wisdom: One of the more amusing carom-shots of the LGF meltdown is Barrett Brown’s proposal for a […]

Holy Guacamole! Keith Olbermann Invokes Dred Scott Analogy?

Instapundit linked this at Hot Air — MSNBC’s Hyperbole Czar reacting to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision —  but neither Insty nor Allah mentioned what is arguably the most offensively extreme sentence (skip to 0:36 if you don’t want to watch the whole thing): “This is a Supreme Court-sanctioned murder of what little actual democracy is […]

Reminder: Daytona Bike Week
Freedom Rally Is Feb. 27-28

You’ll remember last month when I interviewed event organizer Rhonda Lee Welsch for The American Spectator. Rhonda has since been CC’ing me on her e-mail updates about this event. Here’s her video: BIKE WEEK FREEDOM RALLY Feb. 27-28, Volusia County Fairgrounds E-mail – [email protected]

Wow. New York Times Article About Charles Johnson Is Reasonably Accurate

Unlike the fawning Los Angeles Times column that spoiled my breakfast in Burbank a couple of weeks ago, Jonathan Dee’s article takes time to examine the pivotal episode in the Little Green Footballs meltdown, the 2007 Brussels conference: It seems borderline ridiculous that the political character of an extremist Belgian party, which in the last parliamentary election captured […]

The Propaganda of Omission

“When the liberal radio network Air America debuted on March 31, 2004, NBC trumpeted it as the ‘counterweight’ to the ‘right-wing bent’ of talk radio. Katie Couric enthused that Al Franken and his colleagues hoped ‘to break into what has been a conservative lock on the radio.’ However, when the beleaguered Air America announced bankruptcy […]

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