The Other McCain

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

ATRA: Not The Shave You Wanted

by Smitty The American Taxpayer Relief Act, per the modern usage, offers the precise opposite of its title. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the fiscal deal adds $332 billion in new direct spending over ten years. The deal also contributes $620 billion in additional revenue, as reported by the White House and members of […]

Anatomy Of A Great Tweet

by Smitty Look at this thing of beauty: When people Tweet “I never imagined I’d agree with Smith…” they diminish themselves rather than Smith. — Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) January 6, 2013

Hey, GOP: The IRS Is A Substantial Reform Target

by Smitty Let’s face it: the IRS tax code is still a nightmare. It is too complex, too costly and too unfair. There is something fundamentally wrong when roughly 60 percent of hardworking taxpayers have to hire a professional just to do their taxes. You shouldn’t need an army of lawyers and accountants to understand […]

World’s Youngest Blogger:
Yeah, I Own Shakespeare

How mean, green bovine?

Is Public Sector Racism Any More Effective Than The Historical Flavor?

by Smitty Via Insty, Court decisions dating to the 1950s theoretically ended racial segregation of higher education in the United States. But data to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association show that the pace of desegregation has slowed over time. And in a finding that could be controversial, the […]

DeMint At Heritage

by Smitty It sounds as though DeMint hopes to do more as a thought leader at Heritage than he did in elective office. Why was he incapable of being a ‘big ideas’ guy in office? The ‘optimistic, positive ideas’ pitch sounds swell, but I thought that’s the approach on which Romney finished a powerful, strong […]

Tee Hee Hee: Stacy’s Cousin Makes Hawkins’s 20 Most Annoying Libs List

by Smitty I should like to meet Maggie Moo some day to assure her that, while bearing her no personal animosity, this blog finds her ideas emblematic of how jacked up her generation and this country are: 18) Meghan McCain: The GOP and Meghan McCain have the same sort of great love we’ve seen between […]

@DailyPundit, Optimist At Large

by Smitty But since [the re-election of Rep. Boehner as Speaker] just a squabble over the leadership of the minority faction of the Ruling Party, none of this has a great deal of meaning in the larger scheme of things. No matter who is in charge of the GOP faction, everything will continue to go […]

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