The Other McCain

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

Because Fedoras Are Sexy: Ed Driscoll Has a ‘Hot American-Cuban Wife’

He reveals this by way of pushing back at this fear-mongering outburst by Cynthia Tucker: Our long, hot summer needed another ingredient to induce a fever-like madness in the national psyche: demographic change. Over the last year and a half, many Americans have begun to see a deeper message in President Obama’s inauguration — the […]

Alyssa Milano Loves Her Dodgers

They’re having tough luck this season, playing .500 ball but still nine-and-a-half games behind the Padres in the NL West. Win or lose, our Alyssa remains loyal to Dodger Blue: (Hat-tip: Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress.)

Economics, Politics and Propaganda

If the New York Times is going to add an economist as a columnist, who do you think they’re going to pick? Perhaps someone like Thomas Sowell, whose free-market arguments could balance the neo-Keynesianism of Paul Krugman? Of course not. They bring aboard Peter Orszag, who until recently was Obama’s director of the White House […]

Because It’s Awesome, That’s Why

OK, I don’t have to give you a reason why I’m posting this video, but if you insist on asking . . . (Hat-tip: Quincy City Desk.)

Weigel on Delaware

Dave Weigel is a native of Delaware and has a feature at Slate about the Senate campaign between Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell. He explains last week’s onslaught of negative attacks on O’Donnell: When she declined to stand aside for Castle, who’s been eying an open Senate seat for years, the party ignored her. It […]

Expect A Typically Torpid Tea Party Take On That

by Smitty Uncoverage has an important post concerning our Progressive Overlords and the shiny new ways they will offer for us all to help with the financial crisis: “Obama Administration Begins the “Grab” for Private Retirement Accounts“. That is an unfortunate title, no? I mean, given the amazingly high trust levels built up by the […]

The Delivery, With Claire Berlinski

by Smitty Jimmie Bise’s The Sundries Shack gives us The Delivery, featuring Margaret Thatcher biographer Claire Berlinski. There Is No Alternative sounds like a great read (I wish list everything, then go on a spree later). The chat interface for the podcast probably makes sense to whoever wrote it. I waded through the login and […]

Clueless Klein, Or, Why Congress Recalls A Toilet

by Smitty Reboot Congress points to a particularly ignorant 17th Amendment outing by Ezra Klein, who either cannot or will not explore the reasons why giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys (O’Rourke). Congress these days recalls a toilet. Not the bowl full of the unmentionable, […]

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