The Other McCain

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

On ‘Economic Terrorism’: It Pays To Under-React

by Smitty The blogosphere seems to be catching fire concerning Stephen Lerner at Pace University. It sounds like really ‘spooky dude’ stuff. Combined with JounoList, it makes conspiracy theories about the 2008 economic cratering seem tempting. I’m wondering when the counter-sting will occur. With the Left reeling from Beck/Breitbart/O’Keefe, one of the things I’d expect, […]

When The Police Showed To Break Up The Party, Stacy McCain Personally Requested Some Brutality

by Smitty And I, for one, could sympathize: I am, of course, taking egregious liberties with facts in that title. Thanks to M. Joseph Sheppard for a link to a jolly good online album. And if that’s not enough reading for you, check out Sir Jimmie of Bise for his ‘Clearing the Browser Tabs‘ post.

Three Cheers For Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

by Smitty Via CNS News: The chair of the U.S House Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday she will introduce legislation that makes U.S. funding for the United Nations contingent on reform. It also calls for the U.S. to withdraw from the Human Rights Council. I understand what Humans are, and Rights. I also know what […]

Troubleshooting ‘Beyond the Welfare State’

by Smitty (hat tip Monty at AoSHQ) Yuval Levin’s essay at National Affairs is quite well written, and well conceived. Furthermore, it’s a more reasonable conversation starter than I would produce, because it accepts the historical fact of the welfare state as a given, and proceeds to argue the case from there. Monty moves in […]

Movement To Kill The VampireEnd The Federal Reserve Gaining Steam

by Smitty I liked Ron Paul’s book ending the Fed. Looking at the Constitutional notions of protecting liberty and private property, as well as the empirical results of the last century, the Federal Reserve seems to have been a slow motion disaster. Too much power in the hands of an unelected, opaque few, say I. […]

If All The Copts In Egypt Packed Up And Walked To Israel. . .

by Smitty . . .wouldn’t that be one mother of a scriptural allusion? I have no idea what I’d do in their moccasins, but it’s a Clash that would probably end in departure:

Celebrating 6 With 5

by Smitty What would be a good way to chase the 6 MegaHit post? How about a Rule 5 post! Fortunately, M. Joseph Sheppard has done a suitable roundup of refined taste and variety. Thank you very kindly, sir.

From Mountains Jenghis Roamed About

by Smitty This week’s FMJRA is a throwback to a blogging life I distantly remember, trying to come up with a suitable FMJRA backronym for the week. The bad news is that the Wombat is still recovering. The good news is that I happen to have a few spare minutes and bandwidth to pinch-hit for […]

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