The Other McCain

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

Did I Ever Mention …

. . . that I live about a mile from the Appalachian Trail? And that my teenage sons have a pretty serious gun collection? The reason I mention this is because Professor Glenn Reynolds linked to an article on a survivalist site about the “Redoubt of the East,” which the author describes as the mountains […]

Bubba Got Crushed

by Smitty Over at Althouse, a poll choosing between a third round of Bubba or W. For 2K votes, W has 80%. I don’t know that Ann’s readership is all that right of center, either. While retaining some personal regard for Bush, I don’t think his policies did too much to help attack the generational […]

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 […]

Wasted Away Again In My ObamaVille

by Smitty (via Insty) Sorry, Jimmy: Nibblin’ on coffee cake Watchin’ some bum take All of the handouts From some others’ toil Strummin’ my six phones Amidst all the chicken bones Smell those socks? They’re beginnin’ ta boil Wasted away again in my ObamaVille Chanting mic check near the Chase vault, Some people claim That […]

The Herman Cain Story

A new Pew Poll shows the astonishing surge for Herman Cain in the GOP field since the Sept. 22 debate in Orlando. Cain trailed Rick Perry by four points Sept. 22-25, but by Oct. 1-4 Cain led Perry 18-15, while front-runner Mitt Romney softened slightly, declining from 25% to 22% in the span of little […]

Not A Failure Of Imagination

by Smitty Pardon my under-whelmed response to Neal Stephenson’s Innovation Starvation. Neal comes near a breakthrough here, emphasis mine: Researchers and engineers have found themselves concentrating on more and more narrowly focused topics as science and technology have become more complex. A large technology company or lab might employ hundreds or thousands of persons, each […]

Like Islanders Mystified by Lack of Cargo, Blogger Weeps at Altar of the ‘Lanche God

Ceremonial cross of John Frum cargo cult on the island of Vanuatu Something has gone drastically wrong, and I can’t figure out what it is. About a month ago, as Wombat noted in his Aug. 28 FMJRA round-up, we got no fewer than six Instalanches in the span of a single week. There are bloggers […]

They Told Glenn Reynolds …

… that if he voted for John McCain, Americans would be executed without trial — and they were right! The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality   American Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki Assassinated in Yemen Big Gator notes that Anwar Al-Awlaki has the right to remain silent. Da Tech Guy wonders if Glenn Greenwald […]

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