The Other McCain

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

Mead Seeks Technical Solutions To Existential Problems

by Smitty I’m still waiting for Walter Russell Mead to get down to brass tacks. In this third installment, Mead sounds like he thinks shiny gadgets are going to fix everything. Economically, the decline of the blue social model presents Americans with some urgent questions: how can we generate a rising standard of living for […]

Quaff That Kool-Aid!

by Smitty #OccupyOvalOffice would like to lament the fact that Triple-O can’t snap his fingers and make us all drink the Kool-Aid: Listen, buddy: you can’t have it both ways: either you’re a transformational figure standing in front of the Greek columns, or you’re just a mediocre crapflooder with “Property of the Plutocrats” stamped on […]

Laughing In The Face Of Pessimism

by Smitty The Camp of the Saints sure had a case of the Mondays yesterday: We have, indeed, gone mad [I like to use the term ‘A World Turned Upside Down’]. What once was considered perverse is now considered normal. Ideas are now accepted as reasonable that, had we expressed them to our ancestors, they […]

FreedomWorks Conference Call On H.R. 3551 With Rep. Jeff Landry

by Smitty Freedom Works sponsored a conference call with Rep. Jeff Landry (R-LA) on H.R. 3551, a bill that would create an opt-in measure for the Payroll Tax Holiday. Landry is Iraq veteran, and a former Army Sergeant. A genuine Tea Party representative. HR 3551 Summary: 12/2/2011–Introduced. Social Security Preservation through Individual Choice Enhancement Act […]

The World’s Youngest Blogger Can’t Figure Out Why This TV Is Such A Bore

Economist Dean Baker Defends Central Banking, If Not The Federal Reserve

by Smitty Thie is Dean Baker on 03 February at Empire Unplugged. From Wikipedia: Dean Baker (b. July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, with Mark Weisbrot. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at […]

The Curmudgeon Brings Another Sobering Video

by Smitty Another one of those reminders we need: These videos serve as good reminders of the details that #OccupyOvalOffice would prefer we forget, as evidenced by his “just-forget-the-last-three-years” SOTU address.

#OccupyOvalOffice: A Reasonable Title

by Smitty McEnroe offers: I’m not going to make a big deal out of this. Who wants to hear somebody natter on with the whole ‘mine is better’ argument? Just because my notion, #OccupyResoluteDesk had more educational value (everyone knows the POTUS sits in the Oval Office; how many know that the furniture he’s crouching […]

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