The Other McCain

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

On Opposing Fundamentally Flawed Ideas

by Smitty From the WSJ, emphasis mine: In the latest “doc fix” for Medicare payments last week, Republicans tucked in a provision repealing an arbitrary $2,000 cap on deductibles in small-business health insurance. In a rational world beating White House industrial policy and allowing more consumer choice would qualify as a modest conservative victory. But […]

Krugman Arsemageddon

by Smitty We had one of “those” incidents that you don’t document in detail, but can trigger a neologism, the other night at Schloss Smitty: Arsemageddon (n): The toddler has a soupy delivery. You think he’s merely wet through & blow away half the house getting to the change table — Keynesian Meanwich (@smitty_one_each) April […]

New Report Debunks IRS Claims

John D. McKinnon of the Wall Street Journal reports: A new report from House Republicans sheds more light on the early stages of tea-party targeting by the Internal Revenue Service, identifying the first three cases sent to Washington for special review in 2010. The report also underscores the difficulties the targeted groups faced. Two of […]

Shut Up and Resign Already

Few things I hate worse than a Republican politician who screws around like a Democrat politician: Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) asked for forgiveness Monday afternoon after a video purporting to show the congressman kissing a female staffer in his congressional office in Louisiana surfaced. McAllister, who was just elected in a November special election, has […]

HuffPo Women: Advice for Losers

Am I the only person who reads the Huffington Post’s “Women” category? Because I’ve got a feeling that if any feminists paid attention to it, they’d be outraged at this pink-collar ghetto of insipid journalistic dreck. Some recent HuffPo Women headlines: 8 Things America Gets Wrong About Sex — Barnard College alumna Amanda Duberman says […]

The Reverend Snitch

The Smoking Gun has obtained documents showing that the Rev. Al Sharpton was once a confidential informant for a joint FBI/NYPD task force investigating organized crime. He wore a “wire.” Maybe he hid it in his pompadour.  

#RapeCulture as Propaganda

Wendy McElroy at the Future of Freedom Foundation: The idea that America is a rape culture is a particularly vicious big lie, because it brands all men as rapists or rape facilitators. This lie has been successful despite reality. The rate of actual rape is declining. The crime is severely punished, and even an accusation […]

War to the Knife, Knife to the Hilt

Maybe the National Republican Senatorial Committee thought it was a smart move to play the race card against Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel, but the backlash was overwhelming and it comes at exactly the wrong time for the NRSC’s doomed effort to protect septuagenarian Senator Thad Cochran. Glenn Reynolds, William Jacobson and Vinnie the K […]

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