The Other McCain

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

An Outline For Use On RomneyCare

by Smitty Right Klik has done a superbe job in composing a video on RomneyCare: I have not done the homework to see whether every single bullet point this video makes is valid. Then again, I’m no Romney apologist. Mitt just seems too glib about the way keen swellness of RomneyCare. But the 2012 election […]

Maybe The Cleanup Crew Can Work On Julian Pecquet’s Head After Zuccotti Park

by Smitty What a nauseating bucket of drool at The Hill: Pecquet Smitty Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama’s healthcare reform law. The SCOTUS will rule in favor of the Constitution and liberty. Liberty, Mike Foxtrot: do you speak it? Over the last couple weeks, congressional […]

ObamaCare Granted Certiorari

by Smitty SCOTUSblog reports: Setting the stage for a historic constitutional confrontation over federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday granted three separate cases on the constitutionality of the new federal health care law, and set aside 5 1/2 hours for oral argument, to be held in March. The Court, however, did not grant all of […]

ObamaCare Is The Issue Of Our Day, According To Cuccinelli

by Smitty Getting to hear my state’s rock star Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, at the Defending the American Dream Summit was every bit the treat that was expected. Leading off and actually upstaging him slightly however, was former NY LT Governor, Betsy McCaughey (pronounced like ‘McCoy’) who had the finest blend of passion and wonkery I’ve […]

BHO And The Medicine Cabinet: Workin’ Hard, Tryin’ To Understand That There ‘Economics’ Stuff

by Smitty The WaPoo: This morning [31 October, 2011] President Obama signed an executive order intended to combat a wave of prescription-drug shortages in the United States. How can there be a wave of something not being there? But I quibble. The whole point of the article is to excite some feeling of unexpected calamity. […]

“He’s Not The King. He’s The President. He’s Elected Just Like The Rest Of Us”

by Smitty Peter Robinson interviews Rep. Paul Ryan in an excellent palate-cleanser. It’s 17 kinds of awesome to be home, with bandwidth, and have a chance to enjoy this. It’s also fantastic that a state which could produce a bloggerwho posts a picture of a ballerina sitting in a tree, wearing galoshes and a stormtrooper […]

BREAKING: WH Names ObamaCare Litigator For SCOTUS Challenge

by Smitty U.S. News reports that the White House is flexing its muscle to bring ObamaCare to the Supreme Court sooner rather than later: The government could have dragged its feet in appealing to the Supreme Court—the final deadline to file was actually November, and it also could have asked for a full court review […]

4th Circuit Court To Virginia: If We Say You Lack Standing, We Can Ignore You

by Smitty (via Lisa Graas) I don’t want to get too upset about this horrendous abortion of a legal opinion handed down from the 4th Circle of Hell, emphasis mine: The decision is no surprise given the stacked nature of the panel, as computers at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that […]

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