The Other McCain

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

Shouldn’t A Renowned Constitutional Scholar Know That?

by Smitty Bernstein at Volkh raises the ugly point, emphasis mine: Remember Iran-Contra? The problem for the Reagan Administration there was that Congress banned the president from allocating money to the Contras. The Administration, quite illegally in my view, tried to get around that ban by using funds from arm sales to Iran to subvert […]

Sissypuss Has An Industrial Strength Tinfoil Hat Competition Entry

by The Blog Kitty It all clicked. I get it. The point of the Obama/Trump birther conspiracy. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Hawaii’s most famous son. Jon Meacham, useful idiot par dreck-sellance gives us the clue here: But that’s another story. Little is known of the story of the native-born clause. As reconstructed […]

Vodka Pundit Grievously Insults Famed Omega Theta Pi Bluto Blutarsky

by Smitty Things have gone way too far in the dextrosphere when the POTUS is compared to John Blutarsky: Remember in Animal House, when John Belushi’s character yelled “Food fight!” in the cafeteria, got a good one going, then made himself a quick escape from the ensuing chaos? That’s right — we have John Blutarsky […]

Usefully Dealing With Birtherism

by Smitty It’s really cool of The Donald to go all high dudgeon about the birther nonsense this late in the presidential term. Dealing with it in a useful way, in contrast, is Arizona, whose ‘fool us once’ measure goes to the Senate. As with checking for valid ID at a polling place, checking for […]

The President’s Speech: OK With Pepper

by Smitty There were about five references to sharing in the speech, as I read it on the WSJ. The whole sharing concept, and the generally surreal approach to governance evidenced by the administration, brings to mind none other than Pepper, by the Butthole Surfers: Marky got with Sharon And Sharon got Sharice She was […]

It’s a ‘Framework,’ Not a ‘Plan’

Last night I glanced at the White House talking-points outline of Obama’s Big Important Speech and had to smile at the effrontery of this part: $4 Trillion in Deficit Reduction: The President is setting a goal of reducing our deficit by $4 trillion in 12 years or less. This deficit reduction would be phased in […]

Word of the Day: Sharing!

Just as I predicted, Obama’s Big Deficit Speech was big on sharing: As a country that values fairness, wealthier individuals have traditionally borne a greater share of this burden than the middle class or those less fortunate. . . . To meet this challenge [i.e., ballooning deficits], our leaders came together three times during the […]

‘Shared Sacrifice’ = Tax Increases

Today, Obama will give a major speech on deficits and here’s an Associated Press video report in which the reporter uses the phrase “shared sacrifice” to describe the president’s plan to call for repealing the Bush tax cuts: White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the plan Obama will outline on Wednesday at George […]

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