The Other McCain

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

Mitt Romney Needs More Lessons From Chris Christie

by Smitty The 2012 election is not an episode of Leave it to Beaver:Concluding the rebuttal with “You’re wrong!” is about an order of magnitude below the intensity needed. Let’s leave the Ward Cleaver routine on the sundeck by the pool, shall we? Suggested response: “This country was founded in Liberty. Do you speak it? […]

Scott Ott With The Dry Humor

by Smitty If Ott gets any drier, he’s going to wake up British:

Two Words In Reply To Stare Decisis On Progressivism, The Second Of Which Is ‘You’

by Smitty Can we get a spine implant for Orin Kerr (emphasis original)? I’m also a Burkean conservative stare decisis guy, and I’m acutely aware of the Supreme Court’s long struggle to identify principled and workable limits on the scope of the Commerce Clause. History has shown that it’s surprisingly hard to do that, and […]

Banning Traffic Cameras

by Smitty Insty’s link on Iowa banning traffic cameras leads to a subversive thought serious question: why do we have unmarked police cars? In military terms, the idea of having the authorities pose as civilians is a matter of OPDEC. Going undercover makes sense when, say, infiltrating criminal organizations. Is that an example of overkill, […]

Will Future Historians View SOPA As A Bridge Too Far?

by Smitty The whole notion of crushing the many in the name of the few is looking old and busted these days. Paul Hsieh offers a great roundup at PJ Media: Steve Blank offered this analogy: “It’s as if someone shoplifts in your store, SOPA allows the government to shut down your store.” But even […]

CNN SOUTH CAROLINA DEBATE:
GOP MADNESS @ FINAL FOUR

by Smitty UPDATE (RSM): Shortly after the exchange among the candidates about abortion, Rick Santorum’s press secretary Matt Benyon appeared in the media filing center, distributing a stack of papers headlined: ROMNEY SIGNED PRO-ABORTION PLEDGE. On the questionnaire by the Planned Parenthood ADvocacy Fund of Massachusetts is dated April 9, 2002, and signed by Mitt […]

One Of The Best Pages On The Net

by Smitty The topic of deconstruction came up last night. Deconstruction is to art what Postmodernism is to Philosophy, and Progressivism is to our politics: a nihilistic effort to destroy reason, the Enlightenment, and our Constitution. Hence the record here on the blog that I regularly pump as many metaphorical shotgun shells into the whole […]

Couple Of Points On The Race Card

by Smitty Da Tech Guy wonders why the race card went unplayed in the case of Herman Cain. If you flip it over, the Race Card says “Property of the National Socialist Democrat Workers Party”. Conservatives, therefore, cannot play the card. If conservatives try to play the card, cast as, say, a ‘hi tech lynching‘, […]

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