The Other McCain

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

Jerry Sandusky Is To Joe Paterno As. . .

by Smitty . . .Eric Holder is to. . . They told me that if I voted for John McCain, executive accountability would be for the little people. So far, they’ve been proven quite correct, no thanks whatsoever to that craven sack of a Senator from Nevada. Just to belabor the point here, this post […]

Well-Informed Customers Are Well-Armed Customers

by Smitty Freakonomics discusses an NYU mashup that maps out subsidized housing: As the article makes clear, this database performs a variety of worthwhile functions — allowing renters or buyers to locate affordable housing; letting affordable-housing advocates keep track of when subsidized buildings are scheduled to potentially lose their subsidized status; etc. There’s one potential […]

Victor Davis Hanson Thinks Than Romney Is The Only GOP Candidate Who Can Win

by Smitty Roger Simon of PJTV interviews the mighty Victor Davis Hanson. The post was linked by somebody, then dropped. Probably a simple rescheduling, though, I’ll not cite the blogger, on the off chance that the retraction has some other meaning. If you blog enough, these odd corner cases of etiquette will pop up, I […]

GOP May Gain Control Of VA Senate. Also, InstaVision Offers A Sarah Palin Tease UPDATE: A Sarah Palin ‘Vacuum’?

by Smitty Jason Kenney at Bearing Drift reports that canvassing is done in Spotsylvania for the 17th Senatorial District, with a 226 vote margin for the GOP hopeful. This is good news, and will hopefully lead to results substantial enough to reach the misguided voters in Ohio. Speaking of misguided, voters in my VA Senatorial […]

The ‘Go-Away’ Money Game

Washington, D.C., has a very rigorous “employment rights” regime, as opposed to, say, Floyd County, Georgia, where I had been working before I joined the staff of The Washington Times in 1997. And the sense of entitled grievance-mongering fostered by “employment rights” was profoundly harmful to the workplace environment. Specific examples? Yeah, sure, I could […]

Nicely Worded Lawyer-ese That Really Hacks Me Off

by Smitty Over at Volokh: The modern Supreme Court is reluctant to directly overrule precedents, especially well-entrenched precedents, but is not at all reluctant to distinguish precedents, even when the distinctions in question are quite strained. Why on earth are the 9th and 10th Amendments, the Bill of Rights, permitted to be overruled, then? This whole […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.10.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS GOP Candidates Target Housing Market, Tax Reform, And Bailouts In Latest Debate Candidates focus fire on Obama Administration, avoid attacking each other Has Rick Perry The Brain Worms?!?!? Paterno, Spanier Out At Penn State Trustees fire legendary football coach, school president in wake of pedophilia scandal Italy Struggles To […]

Who Lost The GOP Economics Debate

  by Smitty Candidates who: Accept that working through the IMF to help out Europe is a good idea. Accept the continued evil of the Federal Reserve. Accept the existence of the IRS, and want to change the shade of lipstick on the pig. Accept that the existence of Fannie and Freddie is justified. Unwind […]

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