The Other McCain

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

When Moe’s On, He’s On

“Let me see if I can guess the contents of the article, based on just the title (‘Governor Walker’s Coup D’Etat’): Robert Reich is going to use the Rubber Bands of Mendacity, Hyperbole, and Bad Polling to create a Frankenstein’s Monster of an assertion that somehow Governor Walker — with his voting majorities in the state […]

Gawker Misspells ‘New Hamshire’ [sic] in Article Slamming Bachmann as Ignorant

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is an accomplished woman — a former federal tax attorney, mother of five, longtime conservative activist — but evidently not a specialist in colonial history or New England geography. Speaking at an event Saturday in Manchester, N.H., Bachmann misplaced the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” producing much guffawing from liberals. […]

Finally: Japanese Official Admits ‘Possible Partial Meltdown’ at Nuclear Power Plant

It only took about 24 hours after the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi — an entire day of denial — but at long last we may be starting to get some (carefully qualified) truth here: Japan’s top government spokesman says a partial meltdown is likely under way at second reactor affected by Friday’s massive earthquake. Chief Cabinet […]

Predictably, Japan Disaster to Be Scene of Next ‘Battle of the Network News Stars’

So predictable, you can set your watch by it: A catastrophe or crisis makes headlines, and TV news operations compete to see who can get their celebrity on-air talent to the scene first: Cooper, Amanpour among TV journalists to Japan U.S. broadcast and cable networks, some of which were short-staffed Friday morning in Japan, are […]

Japan Disaster Gets Worse: Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant UPDATE: Meltdown or Not? Also: Cooling Failure Reported at 2nd Plant UPDATE: Now 3rd Reactor in Trouble?

BUMPED FOR UPDATE 5 p.m. ET: Just when I was thinking about eating lunch and taking a nap, I decided to check Drudge and saw this: The link is to a Reuters story: A quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant reeling from an explosion at one of its reactors has also lost its emergency cooling system at […]

What If We Threw Steroids At The Broken Window Fallacy?

by Smitty Volokh notes the WSJ: “Some economists have argued that a quake could actually lift the economy in the long run, by requiring a surge in rebuilding spending.” Does that mean that we could help the economy by regularly trashing all entitlement programs, say, by forcing them to expire with the departure of the […]

If There Is Any Value Whatsoever In The Current US Middle-East Policy. . .

by Smitty Consider this: what you’re seeing the US do now is essentially what Ron Paul’s non-interventionist approach would look like. So consider that, ye Paul fans, as the butcher’s bill grows and reddens.

Journalists or Clairvoyants?

On Friday, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Politico published one of those Smartest Guy in the Room analytical pieces that always annoy the crap out of me, and ought to annoy everyone else, too. It amounts to Vandehei and Allen playing GOP strategists: The Republican Party is undergoing a messy but unmistakable 20-month transformation from fanatically […]

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