The Other McCain

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

Pardon Me While I Run The Fisk Bus Over Loco MoDo A Time Or Twa

by Smitty Fisking a Maureen Dowd column. It’s the blogger version of calisthenics, really. Maureen Dowd Smitty One day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.” Rules […]

It Will Get Better

by Smitty Mead: It is fun to curse our leaders and throw stones at them, but we should realize that cursing politicians will not create answers where none exist. Sometimes, cursing politicians is a way of whistling in the dark; by grumbling about how stupid and inept they are, we reassure ourselves that answers really […]

Sounds Like An Expression Of Contempt For Separation Of Powers, To Me

by Smitty Isn’t this an admission Obama has not been doing all he can for jobs?, asks Prof. Jacobson of BHO’s direction: Obama directed several federal agencies to identify “high-impact, job-creating infrastructure projects” that can be expedited now, without congressional approval. Doesn’t this go beyond the usual “What if a Bush had said that?” It […]

Should I Stay In Afghanistan, Where It Sounds Relatively Safe?

by Smitty Via Memeorandum, the Hill posts: “Obama targets GOP for fall offensive“, emphasis mine: “Kill the body, and the head will die.” — Joe Frazier President Obama is preparing to fight a political war this fall on two fronts — the first against Republicans who want his job and the second against Republicans who […]

Vice President Marco Rubio?

by Smitty That’s Krauthammer’s take: He checks all the boxes. We saw his charm. He’s got the right ideology. He’s well spoken. And he’s got a great story, second generation immigrant. I mean, he gives a story of hope and restoration, which would be I think his theme. I think he’s prohibitively the favorite for […]

Libertarians In Space

by Smitty Yesterday I wrote a post generally lamenting the fact that the U.S. space program is languishing. That we’ve traded the gosh-wow inspiration of boldly going where no human has gone before in for standing in socialist lines, where everyone has gone before, consuming a significant chunk of their lives. And I mentioned that […]

How About That Commitment To Mediocrity

by Smitty Update: crossed out a word, added a couple to the first sentence of the second para to avoid a friendly fire incident. Insty links spaceflightnow.com discussing the possible abandonment of the International Space Station. The Russkies are having lift problems, which puts them ahead of the U.S., which currently ain’t got no sack […]

“Act Now,” Says Lagarde, As In “Keep The Kabuki Caterwauling, Kids”

by Smitty via Drudge “The standard old bits of farce are losing traction on the world stage,” she was not quoted as saying, “as more people have access to information. [NSFW] 73 percent of Americans are no longer able to suspend their disbelief for our merde.” What she did say was: She called for a […]

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