The Other McCain

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

Cowardice Improves Nothing

by Smitty Just because you’ve become comfortable with the list on the ship of state does not justify inaction to correct the flooding problem. Althouse references Ed Kilgore: Every moment they spend sparring over the New Deal and Great Society is a boon to Barack Obama. Even if the incumbent cannot win a referendum on […]

So, Does This Mean Bono Should Be The Front Man For Rammstein?

by Smitty (via Insty) Surber ojects vigorously to rock stars ascribing American citizenship to themselves: No, Bono, is not an American — one day a year or 365. Who in the heck does this pompous Irish think he is standing in Canada and presuming that he is an American? When did he stand in line […]

Twitter As A Means Of Public Confession

by Smitty It hurt, but I feel better. Still won’t swing Catholicism:

“Te Atrocity” Of Schools

by Smitty Insty rounds up some more blowback over Paul Krugman, who dropped an upper decker at the NYT yesterday. Insty includes email from an anonymous academic: But there’s also the invention of a “we were all united and then Bush ruined it” idea. This is nonsense. The professional and academic left immediately started with “the […]

As If One Needed Another Reason For Uncertainty About Romney

by Smitty American Exceptionalism is founded in liberty. Progressive anti-Exceptionalism is about making people clients of the State and then using appeals to fear to keep those clients parked on the plantation. Via Hot Air, Fresh Squeezed Politics produces the Romney flyer for Florida, which I will cleave in twain for posting here legibly. I […]

ObamaCare, Taxes, And How You Know You’re Getting Rooked

by Smitty (via Volokh) Is it a tax or not a tax. . . shows the need both to revisit first principles and to admit when they have reached their limit. The distinction between taxes as internal to the country, and regulation of commerce is external to the border, is a good one. Note that the tax/regulation distinction […]

Standing By For The Muslim Protest Against The Flight 93 Memorial

by Smitty Power Line catches us up on the ‘curious’ nature of the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA: Rawls, Burnett and others have lodged additional criticisms of the design. They say that the crescent points toward Mecca and is, in fact, a traditional Islamic mihrab. They point out that one of the memorial’s most striking […]

Lakoff: A Seminar In Hooey?

by Smitty Dear George Lakoff, I used to think that Lefties held beliefs. Now I’m not so sure. Can you ground this argument about intimidation and framing in real history, starting with the Founders? Reading your PuffHo post, it sounds as though you may be the heir to Chomsky. You’re making weighty-sounding pronouncements, which arrive […]

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