The Other McCain

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

Even Mark Steyn Misses The Point From Time To Time

by Smitty Steyn’s NRO article “The Art of Inconclusive War“, subtitled “Why is it that the United States no longer wins wars?” is another fine outing, but ultimately dances around the issue of the lack of victory in war, as evidenced by actual peace. Bottom line up front: homo bureaucratus is here to manage problems, […]

Thanks Guv, You Do Us Proud

by Smitty (gracious hat tip to Cubachi) One derives a great deal of satisfaction from the privilege of voting for genuine Americans like Bob McDonnell. You can tell the difference between a good leader and another Ruling Class stiff by the way a good leader draws the audience up to a higher level through a […]

Parenthood Is Noble

by Smitty (via Insty) Of all the lies of the modern Progressive movement, an overarching falsehood is that fatherhood and motherhood are not good. This is implicit in things like the Overpopulation Myth and the Gender/Sexuality Are Socially Constructed Myths. It’s been explicit in the feminist assault on motherhood. The result? Virginia Postrel can meaningfully […]

‘My Little Realm …’

New York Times editor Bill Keller damns his own soul to hell with a column attempting his own justification: Back in 2004, Daniel Okrent, the first ombudsman at The Times, wrote a column under the headline, “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?” The sly first sentence of his essay was: “Of course it […]

Roxeanne de Luca Writes About Feminism, Sex and Virginity

In her role as guest-blogger at Camp of the Saints, Roxeanne explains the difficulties of being A Woman Who Disagrees With “Pro-Sex” Feminists: I got excoriated . . . .because I suggested that premarital sex is not an achievement and is about as novel as not wearing a hoop skirt. When I said that premarital […]

FMJRA 2.0: E.T.I.

-Compiled by Wombat-socho Apologies for missing last week’s installment of  the FMJRA, but I really hadn’t planned on spending the weekend at Uncle Eric’s hooked up to an intravenous. With that minor inconvenience over with, here’s your linkagery for this week! OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN: U.S. Launches Attacks on Targets in Libya Rhetorican The (Perhaps Slightly […]

Credit Where Due: David Brooks Put It Well On Maher

by Smitty While this blog is normally unafraid to deliver the napalm shower for David Brooks, it would be ungracious not to give him a shout for this bit on Maher’s show. Props to NewsBusters for staring into that abdominal wound Maher calls a show: MAHER: Their confidence is off the chart. If I had […]

Congrats To Another Black Conservative

by Smitty ABC is celebrating his sweet tooth anniversary. I note with some shame that we’ve not been among his top referrers. We need to be linking the chap more.

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