The Other McCain

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

Machiavellian, in a Good Way

“[I]f you yield to a threat, you do so in order to avoid war, and more often than not, you do not avoid war. For those before whom you have thus openly demeaned yourself by yielding, will not stop there, but will seek to extort further concessions, and the less they esteem you the more […]

You Go, Nancy!

by Smitty It takes a special kind of chutzpah to encourage people to do things that are not in their best interests. The Lonely Conservative points to the LiarSpeaker of the House, encouraging her doomed troops to go backing into their campaigns at high speed in a Ford Pinto with a full tank, singing the […]

Thanks, Buffett

by Smitty After I go to all that trouble defending you, you reveal yourself a total sycophant. What’s next, a Charlie Crist endorsement? The weather is here. Wish you were credible. Aside: I think I was supposed to eat some crow over Chuck DeVore’s non-triumph in the California primary. You may all point at me […]

Sudetenland: Are the Czechs Our Friends?

This is the question history professor Thaddeus Russell would have had Britons ask each other in 1938, when Neville Chamberlain sold out the Czechs to Hitler at Munich. Does Israel Make Us Safer? . . . Though many Americans think of Islamic terrorism against the U.S. as part of an inevitable “clash of cultures,” not […]

Levi Lied, Sully Cried

Andrew Sullivan detects a conspiracy to silence the trailer trash hustlers courageous souls who speak the Trig Truth: In Palinland, no one knows what’s really going on. But I wonder if this is a somewhat panicked response to the recent blip upwards in web interest in the Trig question. With all these family members able to speak […]

‘Aggregate Demand! Aggregate Demand!’

“I cry out to boost aggregate demand — by banking policy, by monetary policy, by fiscal policy, by spending increases, by tax cuts, by anything — I don’t care what!” — Brad DeLong The stimulus wasn’t big enough! That’s the sum of DeLong’s argument, which is frustrating to read because, on the one hand, DeLong […]

Nice Work, No Sheeples!

by Smitty Thomas Sowell knows a great deal, but Real Clear Politics should retain No Sheeples Here for that crucial graphic. The Republicans do resemble a Charlie Boehner figure, tricked again and again by Lucy van Pelosi. Sowell asks: Why Republicans join such transparent attempts to rescue the Democrats from the political consequences of their […]

VIDEO: Yosemite Bear Sings!

Well, in the same sense that modern pop stars “sing,” anyway — with the assistance of digital special effects. Once again, I’ve poached this from the headlines at Ace of Spades HQ: PREVIOUSLY: ‘I’ll Have What He’s Having’

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