The Other McCain

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

Forgotten Victims of Sharptonism: Remembering Yankel Rosenbaum

“Al Sharpton is a professional bigot. During his long career the Reverend has incited two anti-Semitic pogroms; the Crown Heights riot and the firebombing of the Jewish-owned Freddy’a Fashion Mart in Harlem. Each of the Sharpton-incited pogroms resulted in deaths, but now for some unknown reason Reverend Al believes he is the caretaker of religious […]

Watch Out, Smitty: Rev. Al Sharpton and Code Pink Are Heading Your Way!

While Smitty is blogging from the Reflecting Pool, Al Sharpton is leading a march from Dunbar High School that is being live-blogged by The Washington Post‘s Krissah Thompson, a few excerpts of which are illustrative: Joyce White arrived at a what she called a counter-march to Fox News host Glenn Beck’s rally. She came to remember the […]

Who Doesn’t Enjoy Fisk-Flogging A Lefty Op-Ed?

by Smitty Michael Gerson’s 25 August op-ed is something of a treasure to be savored in full:

I’d Vote For A Frickin’ Wiccan

by Smitty . . .if that candidate took the Oath of Office in a serious way. Note to conservatives fretting un-knowable aspects of the Presidential character (is he Moslem?): nice gills. This argument joins Birtherism in the list of shiny, tangential arguments that can be used to manage the tempo of the news cycle. As […]

Call Me A Literalist

by Smitty However, this blog will echo CNSNews in calling foul about the tweaking of the Constitution that’s gone on at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Your tax dollars have been spent so that some Progressive could elide crucial bits of text: The full text of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 says: “The Congress […]

‘Liberal Ethics’ and Matthew Yglesias

By Any Means Necessary: Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias likes to call his political opponents “dishonest,” but in a revealing exchange on the website Twitter Friday he advocated lying for political purposes. “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias. The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, […]

It’s Time To Call The Bluff On Progressivism

by Smitty Megan McArdle offers an outstanding play-by-play of the dust-up between Wisconsin’s Wonkish Wunderkind and Krugman. Krugman is “that fool on television getting payed to play the fool”, and we all get that, including Krugman. The economic models are slightly better than global warming models, I can opine with as much legitimacy as anyone […]

HR1586: ‘Legislate In Haste, Amend At Leisure’ Now Making Oscar Wilde
Look Serious

by Smitty Unserious Bluegrass Pundit has us on a merry chase, trying to find out the meaning of HR1586, which was passed : Cato and CNET were on the case: It was supposed to be some routine election-year largesse from Democrats: a $26 billion spending measure to aid two of the party’s core constituencies, labor […]

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