The Other McCain

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

Political Correctness Fail: Firshein And Manland

by Smitty Manland doesn’t have any design flaws, to my eye, (emphasis mine): An Ikea store in Sydney, Australia, has either set retail shopping forward by three decades or set gender equality back by three decades—you decide: they’re testing out Manland, which is, as one local newscaster describes it, “basically a creche for husbands and […]

Has Walter Russell Mead Figured A Way Around The Iron Law?

by Smitty Maybe he’s explained a way around Pournelle somewhere. I should like to see such an explanation in the context of this: Ultimately we must either ration health care (death panels and all) or restructure it top to bottom so that it is able to deliver the same or, preferably, much higher levels of […]

Ruth Marcus, That Is Some Highly Ignorant Noise You’re Emitting

by Smitty Daily Pundit saw it, and zeroed in on the same section I did, but let me slice it differently, emphasis mine: It is, at bottom, an argument against the 20th century — specifically against the notion that the Constitution envisions and empowers a muscular federal government able to ensure that its citizens have […]

Daniel Hannan, Doors Fan

by Smitty “This is the end,” says Hannan, in the face of a 98% likelihood of Greek default in the bong* markets. That calls for Morrison: And then, Ace thinks that America is going to bail out Europe? That had better occur before the end of this administration, then; the likelihood of an opportunity for […]

Paul Krugman Remains Free To Drop An Upper-Decker

by Smitty People may object to the use of a scatalogical term to describe a Krugman excretion, but I submit that the level of perversion on display by the gentleman supports the label. Allow me to object to Krugman’s choice of historical time frame, scope of analysis, boring guilt play, and refusal to understand federalism. […]

Solyndra: Pump and Dump

A Wall Street Journal article quotes an investor in Obama’s bankrupt “green energy” boondoggle describing what the half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee meant: “There was a perceived halo around the loan . . . If we get the loan, then we can definitely go public and cash out.” Ed Lasky at American Thinker explains: The huge loan […]

Republicans? In California?

For several weeks now, I’ve been hearing rumors that there was something in California called a “Republican Party” with elected officials and stuff. But I dismissed all those rumors as crazy talk, because it has been years and years since any actual Republican has won any important election in California. Somebody told me that Maria […]

Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, 1820-1863

“A man whose willful violation of social rights led him to such an inglorious end.” — Maj. Gen. S.J.R. Liddell, C.S.A., commenting on the death of Van Dorn History teaches few lessons more useful than the tale of a great soldier, praised for his daring courage, the survivor of many a fearsome battle, who died […]

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