The Other McCain

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

The Progressive Hits Just Keep On Coming. The GOP Wasted Money?

by Smitty Alan Colmes continues to be a more refined form of silliness than the SOL/PuffHo. The other day I was noting the sanctimonious concern for the poor. Now we observe him, get this, fretting that “GOP Shutdown Threats Already Costing Us Money“. This is hysterical, in both the ancient and modern senses of the […]

Not To Go Blaming The Victims, But ‘Ezra Klein Urban Planning’ Is A Wash

by Smitty Have we pilloried Ezra Klein enough for his über-knob assertion that “it’s impossible to understand the US Constitution because it’s over 100 years old”? No. The notion that ‘wisdom is timeless’ is like Levis 501 blue jeans, only older. Old like an obelisk whose wisdom you ignore at your peril. “High dwellings are […]

Arguments To Spike The Heart Of The Entitlement Vampire

by Smitty The mighty Veronique de Rugy posts about some horrid DCCC work against Ryan, and ends with: Now, how can we make people understand that entitlement programs are not an entitlement? How do we reach out to them?  Here are a few thoughts of mine: The Math: they are a ponzi scheme. The demographics […]

The 10′ Fairy Sculpture At The Mark Center: A Jim Moran Symbol?

by Smitty (via Memorandum) It all began as a sadly typical Military-Industrial Complex boondoggle back in the salad days of September ’08 (emphasis mine).

New Ideas For Funding The Government

by Smitty Apparently there is nothing the Dutch hate like not prosecuting Geert Wilders, notes Volokh. But does this prompt ideas for fixing the fiscal mess left by George W. Bush? Taxation on freedom of expression. Not only could we cut down on spam email by taxing that, we could tax blog posts, and streamline […]

Another Refutation Of The Heretical ‘Statism Is Christianity’ Notion

by Smitty (via Digg) PoliticsUSA cranks up the wretching soundtrack with “Christian Conservatives Turn Political Judas On Christ’s Teachings”, followed by an image of a button featuring “Jesus for Congress” by someone named Rmuse. No. Whoever you are, put everything down and go read any of the four Gospels, and rate the political content of […]

The Epistemic Closure of Joe Bageant

Via Memeorandum this morning I learned that author/blogger Joe Bageant has died and is the object of several obituary tributes on the Left. Susie Madrak calls Bageant a “fire-breathing class warrior” — she means this as praise — and writes: “Did I mention that Joe was, in fact, an actual socialist?” This she also intends […]

Democrat Group Declares War on Koch: ‘Secretive Republican Billionaire Brothers’

If you ever sign up for the e-mail lists on liberal Web sites, you’ll soon become accustomed to getting fundraising appeals keyed to the latest moonbat obsessions. Democracy for America — the “progressive” group started by Howard Dean after his 2004 presidential campaign meltdown — just sent me this one: Robert – The Wall Street […]

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