The Other McCain

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

As If I Actually Needed an Excuse to Post This Picture of a Blonde in a Bikini

Conveniently enough, she managed to get herself involved in a serious political news story: Now, far be it from me to throw the first stone here. After all, who are we to judge? Or more to the point, who are we to make tasteless jokes about Giovana Huidobro and her married (alleged) boyfriend, Rep. Jesse […]

Texas Burning

Charges of vote fraud in the Lone Star State: On Tuesday, August 24, Harris County’s tax assessor-collector, Leo Vasquez, held a press conference in which he detailed what he called systematic and organized voter registration fraud across the county. . . . What happened next is what threatens everything. In the overnight/early morning hours of Saturday, August […]

Fingers Malloy: ‘I Am Not a Crook’

“In 2008, the McCain for President PAC gave me half a carton of Lucky Strikes to write a post entitled John McCain is the Shizzle Dizzle.” — Fingers Malloy, “I Took The Money And Stuff”

‘Liberal Ethics’ and Matthew Yglesias

By Any Means Necessary: Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias likes to call his political opponents “dishonest,” but in a revealing exchange on the website Twitter Friday he advocated lying for political purposes. “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias. The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, […]

Socialist Opiates Are Addictive Indeed

by Smitty The Tenth Amendment Center reprints a fine overview of the Social Security disaster: If the words “general welfare” and “United States” are put in their proper context, then the general welfare provision grants Congress the power “[t]o lay and collect Taxes… to provide for the… group well being of all the United States.” […]

Answer: A Rick James Impersonation

by Smitty Question: What Was Rangel Doing? He allowed that his violations were “serious,” although not corrupt. “I have always tried to play by the rules,” he said — but also, “I have been losing a lot of sleep over these allegations.” What does this mean? It means that Rangel wants a deal. He’s extending […]

It’s Time To Call The Bluff On Progressivism

by Smitty Megan McArdle offers an outstanding play-by-play of the dust-up between Wisconsin’s Wonkish Wunderkind and Krugman. Krugman is “that fool on television getting payed to play the fool”, and we all get that, including Krugman. The economic models are slightly better than global warming models, I can opine with as much legitimacy as anyone […]

HR1586: ‘Legislate In Haste, Amend At Leisure’ Now Making Oscar Wilde
Look Serious

by Smitty Unserious Bluegrass Pundit has us on a merry chase, trying to find out the meaning of HR1586, which was passed : Cato and CNET were on the case: It was supposed to be some routine election-year largesse from Democrats: a $26 billion spending measure to aid two of the party’s core constituencies, labor […]

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