The Other McCain

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

Climate Change Consenseless Goes Down In The House

by Smitty (h/t Pirate’s Cove) Lawmakers voted 184-240 against Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) amendment to a GOP-led bill that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gases. The amendment from Waxman — the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee — reflects Democratic efforts to cast the bill as an outrageous […]

The Progressive Hits Just Keep On Coming. The GOP Wasted Money?

by Smitty Alan Colmes continues to be a more refined form of silliness than the SOL/PuffHo. The other day I was noting the sanctimonious concern for the poor. Now we observe him, get this, fretting that “GOP Shutdown Threats Already Costing Us Money“. This is hysterical, in both the ancient and modern senses of the […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.08.11

TOP NEWS Progress, But No Deal On Budget? Continuing resolution passed by House; Obama promises to veto it Powerful New Quake Batters Japan Two killed, but no additional damage to Fukushima reactors Tsunami Warning Lifted (Video) Hedge Funds Chase Opportunities In Japan After Quake NATO Admits Air Strike On Rebel Forces Friendly fire incident triggers […]

Wound + Salt = ‘Hey, Liberals, How Are You Liking That Wisconsin Result?’

Yesterday afternoon, when it looked like liberal Joanne Kloppenburg had narrowly defeated Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, I was in abject misery. Now? Baby, I feel fine! In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold released new vote totals adding a net total of 7,582 new votes in the tight state […]

Daniel Hannan Palate Cleanser

by Smitty Even working briefly with ideas familiar to readers of this blog, Hannan remains a spot-on palate cleanser: He is also well worth your time in print. His polar opposite is the Bearded Clown, Krugman. I have rarely seen a human being so misguided, seemingly incapable of grasping that the very ideas he espouses […]

Not To Go Blaming The Victims, But ‘Ezra Klein Urban Planning’ Is A Wash

by Smitty Have we pilloried Ezra Klein enough for his über-knob assertion that “it’s impossible to understand the US Constitution because it’s over 100 years old”? No. The notion that ‘wisdom is timeless’ is like Levis 501 blue jeans, only older. Old like an obelisk whose wisdom you ignore at your peril. “High dwellings are […]

BREAKING: Air Strikes Hit Libyan Rebel Tanks, Spark ‘Mass Panic’ in Ajdabiyah

News accounts are very confusing and contradictory at this point, but it appears that the Libyan rebels who had been trying to re-take the port city of Brega sustained a serious defeat today, and may even be prepared to abandon Ajdabiyah, 50 miles east of Brega on the coast highway. Here is a report from […]

$39,978 a Year

That’s the undergraduate tuition at Dartmouth College, where Josh Riddle and David Rufful are students. And here’s their new rap video, “Obama, Reid, Pelosi”: Riddle and Rufful got written up at The Blaze by Emily Esfahani Smith (Dartmouth ’09), who has never once linked my blog. Also, Riddle and Rufful are on the staff of The […]

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