The Other McCain

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

Great One From Erickson

by Smitty There is no permanence in politics. All is fleeting. All is cyclical. We find comfort in our cycle and distress when others rise to the top. Right now, conservatives are bitterly disappointed. Some choose to check out mentally. Some have decided to throw in the towel. A few blame the American people. Many […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 11.08.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS After The Election, A Deal To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff? Don’t get your hopes up. More Misery Incoming For Sandy Victims As Storm Bears Down On NY/NJ Area More rain, snow, flooding from nor’easter to pound areas already ravaged by Sandy All Change In PRC As Delegates Gather To […]

You Stay Classy, Luis Cortez!

Unless [email protected] is a parody account, I think the e-mail he sent me eloquently refutes certain Republican arguments for “Latino outreach”: Nice article pal. Let me simply explain what happened to your pathetic white party. yes, white party. not white republican party, just white party. it all boils down to laziness. first, you jackasses brought […]

What Klavan Said

by Smitty Read it all, but emphasis here: Religion for intellectuals. Normally, I would have said number three was “reforming the academy,” but I believe this is where the fight for the academy is centered. Recently, a number of books by secular intellectuals have noted the disaster that is postmodern relativism—the nihilist philosophy that has […]

Vengeance

by Smitty Deuteronomy 32:28-35 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had […]

On the Encroaching Gloom: ‘We Are Permanently and Irretrievably Screwed’

GAHANNA, Ohio Sitting here sorting through the debris of last night’s utter catastrophe, I saw an e-mail from a friend in Colorado, who wrote to say that he shared my dark mood. So I sent him a brief reply: Yeah. The full implementation of ObamaCare — how can we possibly recover from that? And it […]

Blame Bush, You Fools

GAHANNA, Ohio Just now waking up to the post-American era. A longtime reader e-mailed me this data from the Ohio exit polls: An outright majority of Ohio voters (51%-40% margin) consider Bush “more to blame for current economic problems” than the man who has been president for the past four years. And among the Bush-blamers, […]

I Had Been Repeating That The Internet Changed Everything

by Smitty That notion was handed to me. Apparently, it has to get worse before it gets better. At least we won’t hear about how we should get rid of the electoral college for another four years. A broader point that needs to sink home is that, given a choice between Party A and Party Mostly […]

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