The Other McCain

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

‘Free Speech’ Causes Syphilis

One of the brilliant — and by “brilliant,” of course, I mean evil — innovations of 1960s-era liberalism was the Supreme Court’s invention of a Constitutional protection of pornography. We scarcely can imagine what George Mason and other Founders might have said if they had been told, in 1789, that the First Amendment would be used […]

I Thought Fischer Sounded Fishy

by Smitty Bryan Fischer. . .ah, yes, back in April, when the stench of his writing reached me in Bagram, Afghanistan. When we pick a president, we are in fact choosing a minister of God . . .if we allow the Scriptures to speak for themselves, we are in fact choosing a minister when we […]

Dear Governor McDonnell: #OccupyRichmond Is A Great
Leadership Opportunity

by Smitty Dear Governor McDonnell, I submit that it may be time to call ‘nonsense’ on the #OccupyRichmond protest. The Occupy Richmond group, however, as well as many other Occupy groups across America, are not only demanding to be exempted from the rigorous requirements met by any other group before them, they are being given […]

Chuck Norris And The NRA Vs. The DOJ: One Nearly Feels Sympathy For Holder

by Smitty (via Paco) Chuck Norris at Town Hall: Obama’s Department of Justice essentially is amending the Second Amendment by changing the rules for gun sales in border states. While working under the guise of stopping illegal contraband and fighting drug cartels, the White House in reality is further imposing its gun control agenda on […]

Go For The Trifecta

by Smitty Volokh has links to a debate on the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Let me take a broad, general swipe at lawyers and say that they often stand too close to the problem. If you consider the 16th & 17th Amendments, plus the Federal Reserve act in isolation, you can come up with […]

‘A More Perfect Union’?

“To attempt to abstract from the Preamble to the Constitution a lever for transforming it into an instrumental document is . . . to invent powers that do not exist. And it is also a transparent attempt to import the second paragraph of the Declaration — as a mandate for national self-creation, refounding — into […]

Nearly Enjoying Trifecta

by Smitty Trifecta has a bull session about amending the Constitution. They badly need to support buffering, so that I can let the clip download at a medium pace in a back tab, and then watch it normally. Typing commentary for this post was somewhat improved by the stop-n-go motion, but it’s bad. I managed […]

Once In A Lifetime

by Smitty And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack. . . This essay pinpoints the systemic problems with the Federal government, surveys the current approaches, and offers a concise outline of What I Would Do. The problem is centralization. Pournelle’s Iron Law has birthed a Ruling Class that delivers speeches, debt, laws […]

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