The Other McCain

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

Will The Laws Of Economics Support It?

by Smitty The post is titled: “I’m Proud to Be a Freeloader: Taking is as Important as Giving in Collaborative Consumption” No Right or Wrong Answer It’s a problem I’ve been pondering in my own experiences with setting up a neighborhood tool share. So far my neighbors seem delighted to lend, but I am the […]

Must-Read Post Of The Day

by Smitty Tom Blumer over at Pajamas Media has a crucial outing on the federal budget: Here are two important but little-known and underappreciated points about the Super Dupers’ failure which cannot be emphasized enough: None of the alleged “savings” under discussion (really reductions in projected spending increases) would have kicked in until the beginning […]

Robert Reich: Tea Party Strawman Flaming, Not The Greenwich Village Way

by Smitty The right is currently in a struggle to determine whether it will nominate a Ruling Class Overlord who says sufficiently conservative sounding things to take the nomination, the veers to the center to win the election. Alternatively, somebody with both high moral and conservative track records, e.g. Perry, Santorum or Bachmann, could be […]

Will To Reich: ‘You Are A Pyromaniac In A Field Of Strawmen’

by Smitty As usual, Will sounds exceedingly articulate in flogging Robert Reich’s lousy arguments: Strawmen arguments, and appeals to envy, are really all the Left has. The only reason IngSoc ‘succeeded’ in 1984 was through total control of information. The Left seems incapable of grasping the degree to which it stands revealed a pile of […]

Barack Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again

Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming. There is only so much of this bulls–t I can endure without talking back to my TV: OBAMA: If I can’t get Republicans to move, partly because they’ve made a political, strategic decision […]

What Other Alternatives Exist For Getting Off Of Fiat Money?

by Smitty Ron Paul on money sounds so lucid: You know your current course is financially suicidal. Those who say otherwise are the ones who are culpable for the current mess. So, if not Ron Paul’s ideas, and not the status quo, then what? via Tyler Durden

MONDAY DOOM WATCH: Europe Circling the Economic Drain

Four headlines from Drudge: Britain draws up emergency plans for collapse of Euro … IMF drafting $800 billion bailout plan for Italy, Spain … REPORT: FRANCE, GERMANY PREPARE TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES … NYT: Time runs short … Remember, these are sophisticated Europeans. Liberals have always wanted America to be more like sophisticated Europe, where […]

CBO: Stimulus Cost More, Did Less

Recovery bummer: After nearly all the stimulus money has been spent, the Congressional Budget Office now admits it cost more than advertised, did less to boost growth and will hurt the economy in the long run. In its latest quarterly report on the economic effects of the Obama stimulus, the CBO sharply lowered its “worst […]

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