The Other McCain

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

‘No Serious Leader Since Has Called For Its Repeal’

by Smitty Charles Krauthammer offers a stream of wonderful insights. Hopefully, news of this post can reach up into his study and tease a bit of follow-up from him on a point in his recent Real Clear Politics piece: The rotation of power is the finest political instrument ever invented for the consolidation of what […]

Let’s Get Something Straight About Tea Parties And Evangelicals

by Smitty (h/t Dodgeblogium) Just How Political Is Christianity? . . . Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. Mat 22:21 Actual Evangelicals are too busy evangelizing to be political. Separation of church and State, prior to Progressivism becoming the […]

Media Malfeasance Begins To Eat Itself

by Smitty James O’Keefe has no business walking about unrecognized. You figure that, had the media covered the ACORN scandal at a realistic level, JOs face would be as infamous as that of, oh, OJ. The fact that JO waltzed into HUD and pulled a similar “how-can-we-work-these-rules” sort of stunt just shows another reason why […]

Progressives Awaken To The Idea That Americans Hate Progressivism

by Smitty Mike Madden at Salon listened to Glenn Beck, and likens his war on the word ‘Progressivism’ to Reagan’s war on ‘Liberal’. But instead of sitting back and letting “progressive” become the next American political boogieman — like what happened to “liberal” — some Democrats want to fight back. “This is the big fight […]

Will This Bill Not Get A Constitutional Challenge, If Passed?

by Smitty (via Big Government) The Hill reports on a casual $100B that will blow right past state capitals and go to local governments: Miller’s bill would make $100 billion in grants available to localities over the next two years in the form of grant programs for funds to save or create local jobs, or […]

Paco’s Struggle Against Homo Bureaucratus

by Smitty With some formatting help from me, Paco notes the sad state of the State: The ostentatious policy-wonkishness of the Obama administration is something that I now have the misfortune of living with every day at my own agency. The primary feature of this bureaucratic fantasy world is an unprecedented number of political employees […]

One Fails To Understand How David Brooks Breathes

by Smitty David Brooks excreted another verbal puddle of nonsense into the NYeT yesterday. He sets out to compare/contrast people who are alerted to the Constitutional threat with…hippies. About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return […]

Screw Pluribus: Unum

by Smitty Ace seems kind of worried about Einstein, the shiny new data omnivore soon to be devouring an email box all too near you. Yukon Axis of Evil illuminati industrial intelligence mailbomb Bush Wired AMEMB Aldergrove Ft. Bragg BLU-114/B rs9512c UMTS security BROMURE FSF First of all, not having seen line #1 of the […]

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