The Other McCain

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

Oklahoma City Mayor: Satanism? OK! Lingerie Football League? Not OK!

Mayor Mitch Corbett is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas Banned Women Playing Football in Their Underwear: ReasonTV.com via Nick Gillespie on Twitter. The mayor says he won’t let the LFL use the Civic Center, even though a satantic church was allowed to use the Civic Center in October. Background stories here: Mayor Cornett Will Not […]

Memo for Meghan McCain

“Let the in-fighting continue. . . . I don’t need some blue blooded elites who have accomplished nothing on their own to keep telling me what is right for my country. . . . I don’t need a bunch of spoiled brats who only got into the ‘best’ schools because of what other members of […]

Lame-Duck Filibuster!

Proving my saying that “gridlock is our only hope,” Mitch McConnell throws a 42-vote Republican filibuster into the path of Democrats’ lame-duck agenda (see McConnell and Jon Kyl’s letter to Harry Reid in PDF format) unless Democrats permit a vote to extend the Bush tax cuts. Jennifer Rubin from her new WaPo blog: Liberals scream “obstruction!,” but think about […]

A Nation of Wankers

Remember how everybody made fun of Christine O’Donnell for having spoken out against masturbation in the 1990s? “We need to address sexuality with young people, and masturbation is part of sexuality, but it is important to discuss this from a moral point of view. . . . The Bible says that lust in your heart […]

Dave? Dave?

No, sir, I’ve never heard of any such person as “Dave Bowles,” although I did once know a certain Maurice Bowles. But that fellow was a strapping young ROTC cadet, not some grizzled old retired lieutenant-colonel. So if this “Dave” character tries to tell you any crazy stories about a long-haired dopehead guitar-banging rock-and-roller he knew in college, don’t believe […]

And Let Me Add, ‘Roll, Tide!’

Bemoaning the likelihood that Republicans will win their current battle with Democrats over extending the Bush tax cuts, progressive blogger David Kurtz reaches for an interesting analogy: It reminds me of the line attributed to the old football coach Bum Phillips, speaking about the legendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant: “He can take his’n and […]

Economic Growth Causes Consumer Spending, Not the Other Way Around

Regarding Keynesian economics as self-evidently false, I seldom bother explaining in detail what’s wrong with it, preferring instead to mock it, e.g., “Aggregate Demand! Aggregate Demand!” It is nice, however, when economists provide us with the detailed analysis of specific errors of Keynesianism, in this case a five-minute video examining the relationship between consumer spending […]

Charles Johnson, Wrong Again

From the “Not Exactly News” category: My post yesterday, “Most of the Miseries of the World Were Caused by Wars,” was all I had intended to say about yesterday’s New York Times article, but my friend Donald Douglas at American Power evidently didn’t notice that post, and so has solicited further reaction. Let’s start with […]

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