The Other McCain

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

In Support Of DNI Clapper

by Smitty Kerry Patton, over at Breitbart.com, ought to know better: chess is not poker. On February 16th, Director Clapper released yet another intelligence gap-laden threat assessment for the Senate Committee on Armed Services. In the thirty-one page threat assessment, not once does it mention the terrorist group Hezbollah or any of Iran’s asymmetric militant […]

Mead Seeks Technical Solutions To Existential Problems

by Smitty I’m still waiting for Walter Russell Mead to get down to brass tacks. In this third installment, Mead sounds like he thinks shiny gadgets are going to fix everything. Economically, the decline of the blue social model presents Americans with some urgent questions: how can we generate a rising standard of living for […]

Walter Russell Mead On Liberalism

by Smitty His article is long enough to merit a hard copy and several reads, but here is one of the meatier portions, emphasis mine: There are several ugly truths that the country (and especially those states whose governments are bigger and bluer than the rest) must soon face. One concerns taxes. The debate today […]

The False Dilemma Fallacy: Mitt or Newt? The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?

Jeff Foxworthy says that, as a Southerner, the minute you open your mouth, people deduct 15 points from your IQ score. It’s a joke that’s funny because it’s so true. People automatically associate Southern accents with stereotypical backwoods hicks, and so I’ve spent my whole life being underestimated by Yankee smart-asses who think they know […]

Amanda Marcotte Has a Conniption Over the Rights of … Shemale Scouts?

You can’t make up stuff as weird as this. In Colorado, a 7-year-old boy named Bobby who thinks he’s a girl wanted to joined the Girl Scouts and was initially rejected. But then the Girl Scout council changed its mind and declared, “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 6: Four Whore’s Men

by Smitty The stunning conclusion. The Four Whore’s Men of the Apocalypse If there was any redeeming value in the thought of their predecessors, then Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty scuttled it. God save their souls, and damn their ‘ideas’. These chaps have done Western civilization no favors whatsoever. Let their […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 5: Aerial Bacon

by Smitty Awaiting The Winged Pig The last episode ended in the mid-20th century with the Left seeking a new prophet to replace Marx for the cult of Postmodernism after certain difficulties arose around the Soviet Union. Rousseau was not alive enough to decline the dishonor. To review, Marxisism is a class analysis with three […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 4: Poisoned Enlightenment

by Smitty Poisoning the Enlightenment for fun and excitement Our last post was about the first half of the 20th century. Things were nearly interesting with the Postmodernists when, at last, even they realized that Karl Marx was a false prophet. Fortunately for the human race, they PoMo weenies repented of their ways, sought enlightenment, […]

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