The Other McCain

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

CBO: Stimulus Cost More, Did Less

Recovery bummer: After nearly all the stimulus money has been spent, the Congressional Budget Office now admits it cost more than advertised, did less to boost growth and will hurt the economy in the long run. In its latest quarterly report on the economic effects of the Obama stimulus, the CBO sharply lowered its “worst […]

Journalist Says She Was Molested in Custody by Egyptian ‘Security’ Forces

Is this a logical sequel to the “Arab Spring”? The US-based Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been released, according to her personal Twitter account, after 12 hours in detention at the hands of Cairo security forces. A later tweet from the account @monaeltahawy said that she was sexually and physically assaulted while being held inside the […]

An Article So Excellent You Use A Blog Post As A Sort Of Bookmark For It

by Smitty Yuval Levin at the National Review Online: But the Tea Party has been very unusual for an American populist movement. It has not been focused on soaking the rich, as left-wing populists always have been. It has not even been primarily focused on reducing the tax burden on the middle class, as right-wing […]

#Occupy Black Friday?

“Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America’s heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.” — cover blurb for Sam Walton: Made in America Among the many things we should be thankful for this Thanksgiving, […]

America’s Stupid Future

Zombie remarks: “Look deep into her eyes: Is she the stupidest person on Earth, or does she actually know what she’s advocating?” (The death toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution is estimated from 1.5 million to 20 million.) Her name is Colleen. She’s a 20-year-old student from Vermont — 95% white, where the unemployment rate is a […]

Ezra Klein: The Wetness At Your Ankle Is Progressive Flooding

by Smitty In this sense, we mean: Progressive flooding is the additional flooding of spaces which were not previously assumed to be damaged. Such additional flooding may occur through openings or pipes as indicated. . . Ezra, the Juice Box Mafioso and Senate Democrat Briefer, outdoes himself in today’s exercise in Not Getting It. Or […]

Born That Way: The Strange Sisterhood Of Meggie Mac And San Fran Nan

— by Wombat-socho Young Miss McCain is in the news again, pouting that Newt isn’t taking her seriously. This is just common sense on the former speaker’s part. No Republican, much less conservative, with two functional brain cells regards the daughter of Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John as anything but an object for derision and mockery. […]

#Occupy Ignorance: Elizabeth Who?

Aleister at American Glob was yukking it up over the stunning incoherence of these idiots at Occupy Boston interviewed by Holly Robichaud of the Boston Herald: “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. I support what they do.” — Elizabeth Warren, referring to Occupy Wall Street “In 1996, Warren was the […]

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