The Other McCain

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

Pasadena Reconnaisance Report

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. Just returned with Professor Donald Douglas from the Rose Bowl, where we interviewed fans and checked in at the credentials center, only to be told that we had to come back down here — about an hour drive south — to apply for credentials. Already filed my first report for The American […]

Sad News This Morning

Chris Dodd is expected to announce his forthcoming retirement from the Senate and Dodd’s decision not to seek re-election “could damage the Obama administration’s attempts to enact a meaningful overhaul of U.S. financial markets this year.” Professor Glenn Reynolds must be heartbroken at this unfortunate development. Things just haven’t been the same for Dodd since Ted […]

Andrew, You Are Forgiven

by Smitty How can anyone muster anything but forgiveness for Sullivan at the sight of this? (Emphasis mine throughout.) Charles Johnson explains his concerns here. He’s particularly right about the kind of proto-fascist love of violence against “the other” that you see pulsating in the writing of, say, Michael Goldfarb or Robert Stacy McCain.

18 Years and Fewer Hairs Later

A. C. Kleinheider notes the danger of education not following enthusiasm:

Those caught up in tea party hysteria are the kind of voters Ross Perot captured in 1992. Two years later, without Perot, these foaming, vaguely culturally conservative, middle-income voters went Republican.

Also in the ‘New Digs’ Club…

by Smitty …Bob Belvedere over at The Camp of the Saints.

Yes, I Am This Crazy . . .

By the time you read this, I’ll be somewhere over the American heartland, cooped up in economy class on a United Airlines flight to California. With less than $200 cash in my pockets, my checking account overdrawn and overdue bills at the house, I’m flying to Pasadena to cover Alabama’s glorious championship. I’ll be lucky if they don’t […]

If Not the SOU, then Tax Day

by Smitty (h/t RPV Network) I’m still trying to coordinate lunch with the Pink Elephant Pundit to see what, if anything, will be shaking on the Mall for the State of the Union address this month. The abject failure of Al Gore’s Global Warming (colleague: “I told you: it’s Climate Change!”, to which I replied, […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty

Rule 5 Sunday at the new digs. Welcome. Here we take all manner of links that are beautiful/handsome PG-13 or lower in intensity, and package them in the most liesurely fashion possible. Updates to Smitty for inclusion. Put “Rule 5” in the Subject field for easy queueing. To work:

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