The Other McCain

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

Another Pat Condell Outing

by Smitty (h/t Jihad Watch) Pat Condell, making yet another excellent point:

Remember That ‘Culture of Corruption’?

It’s back! Politically connected staffers in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department twisted arms to steer a $5.4 million contract for crystal stemware to a tiny interior-design firm without putting it out for bid . . . Two senior State Department contracting officials, Randolph Bennett and Tandra Jones, successfully pushed for the contract to go to […]

GOP Future Funny When Written By Lefty

by Smitty Salon is quickly becoming a go-to humor site. Ed Kilgore serves up teh funny about the future of the Democratic party, which this blog will both radically paraphrase and condense: Democratic activists ponder the November elections and wet themselves. They are hoping that the Elders of CTHULHU will pull the economy out of […]

MSNBC: Media Sycophants, Not By Coincidence

Jimmie Bise observes the pecuniary motive: General Electric . . . by some happy coincidence, managed to pay no US taxes this past year despite receiving a $140 billion gift from the administration. Prompting Jehuda to recall the Corleones:  “And we have newspaper cable news people on the payroll, don’t we, Tom?” Ah, but the Corleones […]

Unnecessary and Improper

“The Congress shall have Power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers . . .” — U.S. Constitution, Article I, Sec. 8, Clause 18 “In the last week we have gained tremendous momentum in our effort to keep carry-on bags free. We […]

Hey, Baby, Let’s Get Seismic

Great pickup lines in Tehran: A senior Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers reported today. “Many women who dress inappropriately . . . cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which […]

Give Attila Money

Personally, I think she ought to at least offer to use the money to go to Vegas or New Orleans, but gasoline and eggs and cheering her up are also worthwhile projects, I suppose.

What Matthew Yglesias Doesn’t Understand About Economics

Besides everything, I mean. Christine Romer’s neo-Keynesian analysis of the economic slump — “It’s Aggregate Demand, Stupid” — inspires Yglesias to spout ignorantly about “structural” unemployment: Every time there’s a downturn a certain swathe of the elite starts to label it unfixable and structural. He then goes off to argue that the problem with U.S. policy is […]

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