Walter Russell Mead Talks Around The Decay Of Political Parties
by Smitty Mead is always interesting, but apparently he hasn’t read Army of Davids. He sees the decay of our two Ruling Class parties American political parties are increasingly being reduced to flags of convenience; party organizations and party institutions have little influence over events. That didn’t use to be true. Party leaders and officials […]
Herman Cain At The National Press Club
by Smitty UPDATE 14:53 the bottom line on the allegation: “In my over 40 years of running businesses and corporations, I have never sexually harassed anyone,” he told an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “I was accused — falsely, I might add. When the charges were brought, I recused myself, and […]
White House Responses To Petitions
by Smitty (via Slashdot) It seems like a good time to review the WhiteHouse.gov petition site. After all, if you’re a Constitution weenie, and/or you’ve been following Ott’s excellent exposition, you may know that the right to petition the government is a big deal. I got about halfway through the lot, so here goes:
By The Time The World’s Youngest Blogger Can Consider College. . .
by Smitty (via Gateway Pundit) By the time the World’s Youngest Blogger can consider college, I anticipate there will be some outfit in academia advertising itself explicitly as ‘*-studies free’. The classes, scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Sunday, were to be held on the Plaza at SCCC and include such subjects as “Why We […]
What If Everything The Left Has To Say Is Pure Crap? UPDATE: A Shiny New Word
by Smitty Pick the issue: Anthropogenic Global WarmingClimate Change Sovereignty Borders Raaaaacism Entitlements and now Income Inequality Whatever the Left seems to spew seems R – O – N – N – G – G wrong! From the American Enterprise blog, building upon Census Bureau data, we find that: According to three different Census Bureau […]
Great Advertising Gimmick; Also, Stupid
by Smitty One cannot fault their capitalism. Proudly announcing a ‘Real Food Revolution – Paleolithic cuisine!’, there is no cheese, bread or sugar available, only fare accessible to our hunter-gatherer ancestors more than two million years ago. How, short of a time machine, do we really know anything about what went on that long ago, […]
Let’s Just Scuttle Everything And Become An Ant Colony Or Something
by Smitty #OWS: you can take your warmed-over Rosseauian ‘collective liberty’ nonsense, spread it on bread, and see how well it feeds you. #OWS: your ideas are false, un-American, and I hope your ideas die a cold death this winter. via Andrew Breitbart Update: linked at BitsBlog.
It’s Bad Enough That The World’s Youngest Blogger’s Intro To Navy Football Was A Flogging
by Smitty I mean, you’re trying to show the guy the old school, and then some wiseacre pulls a stunt like this. There are words for people like you, Steve Burri, and those words are not nice. Not nice at all. And the World’s Youngest blogger speaks for himself:
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