The Other McCain

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

Speaking Of ‘Based On Belief’

by Smitty Salon again, this time Tracy Clark-Flory, emphasis mine: On Tuesday morning, Nebraska passed a bill outlawing abortions at 20 weeks based on the belief that fetuses begin to feel pain at that stage. Couple of questions: By what magic means does a fetus become a baby? By what additional magic means does nerve […]

‘Say, Do You Know a Guy . . .’

“. . . named Ali Akbar?” asked Don Strong, toward the end of a long phone call tonight. I had been driving east on I-40 in Tennessee when I pulled over to spend an hour talking to Rick Moran on his Blog Talk Radio program. Afterwards, I went to gas up the car and grab a […]

Joan Walsh: The Smoker She Drinks, The Player She Gets

by Smitty Joan Walsh has posted the most risible dismissal of Andrew Breitbart imaginable. Emphasis mine: Andrew Breitbart isn’t fit to spit-shine the shoes of civil rights hero and Congressman John Lewis. It’s ludicrous to think that the right-wing bully believed he had the moral or political standing to call Lewis a liar, after Lewis […]

Megan McArdle’s Myopia

In an otherwise very thoughtful piece about the limitations of the conservative subculture, the World’s Tallest Female Blogger writes: I’ve never worked at either a liberal or a conservative political magazine, but from the outside . . . She writes this for The Atlantic Monthly which, in point of fact, is a liberal political magazine. […]

Ilya At Notre Dame

by Smitty Ilya Somin will speak at Notre Dame on Thursday. He’s a rather busy fellow at Cato, but threw down the gauntlet to the Constitutionally illiterate on the topic of health care:

Fireworks in AL-5 GOP Candidate Forum; What Was Mo Brooks Trying to Say?

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Candidates in the three-way GOP primary in Alabama’s 5th District traded sharp jabs Monday night in a candidate forum at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, with ex-Democrat Rep. Parker Griffith trying to establish his conservative bona fides against Mo Brooks and Les Phillip. At one point, Griffith offered a “unity” pledge that he asked the other […]

A Samuel Adams Quotation

by Smitty If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom–go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! […]

SCOTUS Pick? BFD, Says Biden

by Smitty (photo: Top of the Ticket) BHO: I’ve got to pick a SCOTUS nominee. Whoever pulls my finger first gets the nod. JRB: [runs] Bravely, Finally Dispatched! BHO: Joe, you already have a job, which is taxing you to the utmost of your abilities. Here’s what we do. We run through the most most […]

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