The Other McCain

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Murkowski Is ‘Insanely Un-Libertarian’ UPDATE: ‘99% . . . No Way’ Murkowski Will Get LP Nomination, Official Says

The deal that Palin-hater Andrew Halcro is trying to broker to secure Lisa the Loser’s Senate nomination on the Alaska Libertarian Party ticket strikes many people as odd, simply because Murkowski is the kind of GOP Establishment type that LP activists loathe in their souls. And at least one top national LP official isn’t afraid to […]

Grinder Reminder

by Smitty Via IsraellyCool, we have this gem: While most people know about the ‘farmer tan’ on the arm, many don’t know that the parade field at a Navy boot camp is called a ‘grinder’. You get shaved bald, and walk around in the sun a few hours, and the result, for those of European […]

Advice For The Rational Man

by Smitty How do I know that the World’s Only Rational Man is my junior? Look at him applying a logical methodology to a matter of political history. Of course FDR didn’t mean anything like the scientific method when he set about tinkering with the US Constitution and economy. Any superficial appearance of such was […]

EXCLUSIVE: Murkowski’s Libertarian Effort Is Led by Longtime Palin Enemy

Early Wednesday morning, Alaska Libertarian Party chairman Scott Kohlhaas got a call from ex-Republican Andrew Halcro, asking if Kohlhaas would be open to having Sen. Lisa Murkowski replace Dave Haase as the LP’s Senate candidate. Such a switch would be the only option for Murkowksi to be on the Nov. 2 ballot, should she and the National […]

‘Stalled Recovery’

That’s the the L.A. Times euphemism for “depression”: Downward revision of GDP growth a strong signal of stalled recovery The Commerce Department on Friday downgraded the nation’s economic growth in the second quarter, providing the most important evidence yet that the recovery has stalled. The anemic annualized growth rate of 1.6% was down from last […]

Western Alphabetic Imperialism: An Opportunity For Ivory Tower Conquest

Special guest post by Esarhaddon Q. Echinacea-Prügel News may have reached your ear concerning the demise in fluency with traditional writing systems besetting Far Eastern cultures. Those noble logograms, each its own separate piece of art, represent exactly the sort of quixotic, emotional, faux-romantic struggle against reason to which all Critical Theory aspires, before blaming […]

I Remember That Flick

by Smitty Power Line points to possibly self-referential research showing that Americans are stupid, based upon doubts about elected leadership. The astroturf seems to work as follows: . . .Egan thinks Republicans are dumb. But let’s take a closer look. His 46 percent is an unpublished number from a Time magazine survey that is described […]

Politics Is Attrition Warfare

by Smitty [Updated: fix date flub] Finley Peter Dunne famously noted that “politics ain’t beanbag”. Frequently, it boils down to stamina and reinforcements. Whoever remains standing when the resources are exhausted is the winner. The principles involved in the question may or may not matter. How many times have you seen a politician on a […]

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