The Other McCain

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

Of Course The Democrats Wouldn’t Lie About A Memo About CBO ‘Estimate’

by Smitty The CBO comes out with a preliminary estimate. This blog has obtained a conceptual view of the inner workings of the CBO’s toil: The Democrats then took this explicitly labeled preliminary estimate, written about a jello-to-the-wall piece of legislation of un-Presidented complexity, and treated that estimate like gospel. Now, a memo surfaced today […]

The Federal Reserve: What, Me Transparent?

by Smitty (via Insty) Taking one eye off the ObamaCare debacle for a minute, one of the things that is going to make restoring the Constitution to full vigor a challenge is the lack of reasonable monetary policy. Bloomberg reports that Ben Bernanke, the dude behind the financial curtain, might have to let you know […]

Report: How Southern Poverty Law Center Smeared Immigration Group

Jerry Kammer of the Center for Immigration Studies describes how the SPLC, the National Council for La Raza and the open-borders group America’s Voice combined in a campaign to drive the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) out of the immigration debate: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s December 2007 announcement that it had decided to […]

RAMMING SPEED! Democrats Prepare for ‘Really Stupid and Futile Gesture’

From my latest American Spectator column: Does anyone else remember what happened Jan. 19? Did anyone else watch the confetti fly and hear the band play in the ballroom of Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel two months ago? Or was the election of a Republican to the Senate seat held for more than four decades by […]

Andrew Sullivan on Empiricism

Irony Deficiency Syndrome: “And the insistence on reality, on assessing problems empirically, and in proposing solutions is what we all need to get better at.” After which observation, Sully returned to his usual métier — bashing Israel and ranting about Sarah Palin’s uterus.

Karaoke Thought Experiment

by Smitty We’ll call him ‘Person On The Unreproachable Side’ for the sake of this post, as it ventures in the direction of what I personally consider distasteful. As a thought experiment, say that the Person was convicted. Let’s not fret about the possible list of crimes, its length, grouping, or how it would be […]

Subtle Point About North Dakota

by Smitty (via Let Freedom Ring) Politics Daily points out that Senator Conrad is trying to save the power of the only State Bank in the US to loan education money to the residents of that State from a bureaucratic steamroller careening, in a hidden sort of way, in his state’s general direction on page […]

The Bigger Picture

by Smitty Via Moonbattery, we have a sobering summary of 14 months of Constitutional demolition:. If it looks like our separation of powers is collapsing towards an autocratic Executive, you may be perceptive. Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello admits the truth: Why is the Federal government behaving so indiscriminately? Because it has the Federal Reserve, that’s […]

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