The Other McCain

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

The Paradox Of Progressive Idiocy, Billy Bragg Edition

by Smitty via @s_dog on Twitter, via Tim Blair: Billy Bragg: “Jingoism is no answer to England’s ebbing power“: Unless and until we throw off our imperial pretensions and begin to relate to our neighbours as equals, joining with them in creating new networks of active devolution and shared sovereignty, we English are in danger […]

Is Dr. Melissa Going Just A Little Easy On The GOP?

by Smitty I submit that Dr. Melissa Clouthier is going a tad too easy on the GOP here: . . .I never see the GOP pondering their really bad choices in politicians that had money but had little charisma, political deftness or policy intelligence. See also: Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Linda McMahon. And that’s […]

Old, Odd Fuddy-Duddys And Anyone Else Who Digs Liberty: Hie Thee To The East Lawn At High Noon On 24 March

by Smitty Title alludes to Daily Pundit’s alternative suggestion for naming this blog. I like ‘The McCain Mutiny’, but once you’ve been indexed by Google, you don’t want to go making changes. By the same token, once you’ve been annexed by the Progressive Borg, for something like ObamaCare, it gets very hard to undo. Which […]

Is Ian Masters Looking For A Job In, I Don’t Know, Say, Tennessee?

by Smitty Valley of the Shadow points out Ian Masters, an LA radio personality of some note, who really seems to dig him some anti-Semitism. Read all of Joe Fein’s debunking of a sad situation in LA.  It brings to mind Charlotte Bergmann, whom I saw cruise through the blogger lounge at CPAC, but had […]

‘A Poor Impression Of The Insular, Cliquish Culture Of Their Discipline’

by Smitty An interesting article at Slate reprints an article from a decade ago about a non-professional philosopher who wrote a serious philosophical tract and then, retaining anonymity, paid philosophers to engage on it in scholarly journals. James Ryerson then goes on a hunt to unmask this anonymous thinker, with anti-climactic results, emphasis mine: After […]

GOP Debate, Arguably, Still Going Strong

by Smitty I met young Ben Shapiro at the blogger awards event Friday morning at CPAC. Crowder was making a running joke on the topic of condoms and a social conservative Presidential candidate. After two or three tries that fell flat, I looked at Shapiro and said “He’s going to keep inflating that joke until […]

Separated At Birth? Stacy McCain/Dave Mustaine Edition

by Smitty The news today that Dave Mustaine, who may or may not be a loyal reader of this blog, endorsed Rick Santorum today came to me via a print copy of the DC Examiner while attending to a private, non-work-related matter at my job site. Isn’t the resemblance striking? But I think the resemblance […]

Usually, ‘Demonizing’ Your Opponent Is Metaphorical.
Rep. Maxine Waters, Though, Talks Shedu

by Smitty This is actually an important point. Sure, Maxine Waters ranks in the Toolbox right up there with ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran. Look at her go: A crucial point here is that Waters is playing straight for the fear/hate. Hers, and, well, none of the arguments excreted by the Left anymore, have much rational basis. […]

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