The Other McCain

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

The Futility of Class Warfare Rhetoric

Graphic: RushLimbaugh.com via Hot Air Pundit Demonizing the rich may work as politics for Democrats, but the problem is that it fails as policy. One could argue that Americans are undertaxed in general, and that some kind of across-the-board rate increase (or closing of loopholes) is therefore necessary for the purpose of enhancing federal revenue […]

One Can Admire Norquist’s Sadism, But We’re Still Beating Around The Bush

by Smitty To raise the debt ceiling, or not? National Review has a bunch of opinions from the wise guys. I can imagine Sprinklerman listening to Norquist: My preference would be to keep the administration on a short leash and extend the debt limit by only a small amount and for a short period of […]

Mommy Weirdest

“To describe [Stanley Ann] Dunham as a white woman from Kansas turns out to be about as illuminating as describing her son as a politician who likes golf. Intentionally or not, the label obscures an extraordinary story — of a girl with a boy’s name who grew up in the years before the women’s movement, […]

Biden Commission

by Smitty Really? How will Slow Joe possibly help in any way that Bowles-Simpson did not? The assignment says more about giving the VP some LEGOs to play with than it says about serious analysis of the crisis. In his “excessively partisan” speech last week at George Washington University, Obama announced the creation of a […]

Dark Thoughts Of 2012

by Smitty Apparently the 18 hour road trip to Texas was a bit too much alone time for Ladd Ehlinger. 1) The Republican candidate will lose to Obama, no matter who is picked and 2) The “Red Wave” of 2010 will be reversed. Sorry to be a wet blanket here, but from my observations it […]

John McCain’s Idiotic Advice on Libya

Obama never saw a problem that couldn’t be solved by tax increases. By the same token, John McCain never saw a problem that couldn’t be solved by more bombing: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Monday he feared a “stalemate” has developed in Libya that would lead to a more radical government in that country. McCain, […]

Tax Day 2011

It is no small irony that Tax Day came late this year because on Friday, Washington, D.C., celebrated “Emancipation Day.” The Lonely Conservative: Isn’t it nice to know that so many of our fellow Americans pay no federal taxes? The Associated Press article linked does not make clear that most of these non-taxpayers are low-income […]

NoSheeplesHere Saddles Up The Union-icorn For A Spin

by Smitty The strange, creepy relationship between the Administration and unions is something about which Americans need to be reminded frequently. Also, the Administration’s fantasy approach to such matters as budgeting and economics. Some call it ‘unicorn math’. NoSheeplesHere brilliantly merges the two ideas: Read the whole, detailed, important thing. Lady, you rock!  

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