The Other McCain

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

Would Andrew Breitbart Survive The Come-Down?

by Smitty (via Insty) Tunku Varadarajan achieves unintentional humor at The Daily Beast, discussing the feeding of Charlie Rangel to Cthulhu: [Rangel’s] is a style, a method, a politics from an age when it was simply not done to ask uncomfortable questions of a black politician, lest that politician (and his supporters) retort that the […]

General McChrystal Retires, Announces Duet With Shirley Sherrod

by Smitty American Power reports on the good General’s retirement a month after the fertilizer hit the air circulator over a Rolling Stone article. Sissypuss the Blog Kitty was able to get a quick interview with the General after the ceremony. SissyPuss: So, what does a general do with himself after such an illustrious? Golf? […]

Full Of Shound And Fury, Signifying Nothing, Other Than Desire For
Re-election

by Smitty (via Insty) Senator Webb of Virginia, ever the centrist duck, made some quacking noises in the WSJ today about the need to make sure that the laundry list of Federal fairness management bureaucracies should just kinda be more fair about stuff or something. His conclusion: Nondiscrimination laws should be applied equally among all […]

Tim Daniel Makes The Daily Caller Without JournoList Membership

by Smitty Tim Daniel, a.k.a. the Left Coast Rebel, has a solid piece in The Daily Caller, rounding up some of the wretched excess that is plaguing a local government near you. With no evidence of any kind, I sort of wonder how many of these outsized salary payments are, at least partially, going places […]

Morgan Freeman: Genius

by Smitty (h/t Maggie’s Farm) Emitting more wisdom in one minute than some jokers have in 18 months, or are likely to obtain in a full four years: The bogus narrative dies in the sunshine of silence.

Let Me Get This Straight: The Cart Is Not The Horse

by Smitty (via The Corner) In this paper, published in Economic Policy Journal, economists Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andre Zylberberg looked at the impact of public employment on overall labor-market performance. The authors use data for a sample of OECD countries from 1960 to 2000, and they find that, on average, the creation of […]

Athens Runaway Lands In Myrtle Beach, SC. Nikki Haley Blogging Ensues

by Smitty Our old blog buddy Jesse is chilling on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, an aerial photograph of which graces the masthead at his new digs, Right Turns Only. Starting off with a bang, Jesse catches us up on Democratic party tactics in the Gubernatorial race, where Nikki Haley toasted her GOP opponents to […]

So, When Ginsburg Retires. . .

by Smitty (h/t The Corner) Thanks to Lindsey Graham’s latest abdication of courage, the decay of the SCOTUS into a bowl of Progressive mush continues apace. NRO points to an NYT article on the Christian Legal Society suit against Hastings Law School, and Justice Ginsburg’s argument, that is truly disquieting: Part of the irony of […]

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