The Other McCain

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

Dear Victor Davis Hanson: Racism Is A Power Pump

by Smitty Here’s a great essay by Victor Davis Hanson on the racial divide, epitomized by the Trayvon Martin tragedy. And yet. . .I just don’t think the great scholar gets it, or, at least, seemed to pull his punches: Why? I could go on and on, but one gets the message. So why the […]

Clarifying Friday’s Trayvon Martin Post

by Smitty On Friday I posted, pertinent to the charging instrument in the case of George Zimmerman “If The Strategy Was Always Propaganda, Why Is A Charging Instrument That Sounds Like The Squawk Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask A Surprise?” Once again, this time with emphasis: Law is based upon reason, and a reasonable […]

Louis Farrakhan Will Never …

. . . have a column at National Review: “White folks don’t produce black children — except [if] it‘s a white woman with a black man or a black man with a white woman and that’s the end of your race. So you’re dying a natural death these days. And without an AK47 ’cause the […]

If The Strategy Was Always Propaganda, Why Is A Charging Instrument That Sounds Like The Squawk Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask A Surprise?

by Smitty Allahpundit is confused, probably because he’s screwing up and attempting rational analysis of a Lefty ploy again: I don’t understand Corey’s strategy in charging him with murder two. Maybe she thinks Zimmerman will plead to a lesser charge, but if it’s anything less than manslaughter she’s going to take tremendous heat for having […]

Maslow And The Conversation On Race

by Smitty I’ve been busier than a fringe candidate trying to figure out how to stay in the Presidential race lately, and blogging has suffered. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading blogs and thinking. There is a crucial point to be made if we cast the recent Derbyshire article, as well as less […]

Derbyshire, Goldstein and Lowry

The Bonfire of the Derbyshire has burnt itself out, although some latecomers are still poking around in the ashes. Liberals have reassured themselves of their moral superiority. Rich Lowry has reassured himself of his own editorial adequacy. And all is right with the world. Except of course, it’s not really. The wheels keep turning, and […]

Profiles in Narcissism: Charles Johnson Blinded by His Own Self-Righteousness

Among the books I most often recommend are The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Thomas Sowell, 1995) and The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch, 1979). Thoughtful readers familiar with both books will understand how the phenomenon described by Sowell — liberals […]

Rich Lowry’s Editorial Impotence?

A communiqué from the regime: “Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.” Yes, but have you fired him for it, Rich? What the hell kind of “needless to say” bulls–t are you trying to […]

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