The Other McCain

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

In E-Mail to Dan Riehl, Shankman Claims ‘Very Mainstream Catholic Theology’

This is a very significant message from Wisconsin pro-union cyberstalker James L. Shankman: With regards to distributivism, it is very mainstream catholic theology. You could ask James O’Keefe, who says he is personally inspired by G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton is the main political philosopher of distributivism. The last couple pages of What’s Wrong With the World are […]

Dan Riehl Always Gets His Man: Madison Althouse Stalker James L. Shankman UPDATE: Social F–ing Justice Theory? Shankman Quotes … Pope Leo XIII!

Hey, did I call this one or what? I’d expect online research maestro Dan Riehl is going to have much, much more to tell us about Mr. Shankman. As soon as Shankman was ID’d as author of the anti-Althouse rant, Dan’s name crossed my mind and within a couple hours he was on the phone […]

Worst President Ever

There can no longer be any question about it: The Obama administration threatened to veto two measures being pushed by U.S. House Republicans that would eliminate programs aimed at helping people who are struggling to pay their mortgages, the administration said. The House of Representatives is set to vote this week to kill an effort […]

‘We Don’t Have the Mortgage Problem That We Initially Thought’

Liberal wonk Robert Kuttner continues promoting a once-popular idea of how to deal with the mortgage crisis: “Write-downs” on loan principle (i.e., debt forgiveness) as a way to avert escalating foreclosures, bankruptcies and walk-aways. But there are several reasons that won’t work, and among the reasons named by Megan McArdle is this: We don’t have the mortgage problem that […]

Has Alex Knapp Proven Anything?

“Contrary to my colleague Doug’s description of the Federal government as existing primarily to redistribute wealth, there is actually very little wealth re-distribution in the United States.” — Alex Knapp, Outside the Beltway It is not my habit to defend Doug Mataconis, as he and I very often disagree about politics. But Doug’s post, “The […]

‘Slash-and-Burn’? Yeah, More of That!

The New York Times editorial page would have you believe that House Republicans are out of control: Are there any adults in charge of the House? Watching this week’s frenzied slash-and-burn budget contest, we had to conclude the answer to that is no. First Speaker John Boehner’s Republican leadership proposed cutting the rest of the […]

Bahrain Burning, Silver Soaring

Trouble in the Sunni kingdom in the Persian Gulf that is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet: MANAMA, Bahrain — Troops and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted […]

The Return of Stagflation?

The inevitable effects of Keynesianism are beginning to make themselves felt: U.S. core consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in more than a year in January, indicating a long period of slowing inflation had run its course. The Labor Department said on Thursday its core Consumer Price Index, which excludes food and energy costs, […]

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