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Whittle On Beating The Soft, Creeping Tyranny

by Smitty We need reform, and need to vote for reformers.

@SpeakerBoehner, Sir, Please Don’t Bore Me With Mere Talk Of Jail

by Smitty Speaker Boehner on the IRS scandal: Sure, there are malefactors who should be jailed. But the larger issue, sir, it the system itself. The IRS has now become Checkov’s Gun. If all that’s done is a appoint a special prosecutor, locate one or two more flagrant folks, and jail them, a major point […]

Whittle Breaks It Down To The Soft Drink Level For The Thirsty

by Smitty

Legislation Via Regulation

by Smitty Because the Constitution is, like, over 100 years old, we can safely ignore the notion of representative democracy. Came across a new “gotcha” 4 small business yesterday. We signed a contract w/ a builder 4 a small local government construction job. 1/3 — Melissia (A) (@ProudoftheUSA) April 7, 2013 2/3 even though State […]

Headline Contrast

DHS To Buy 360,000 More Rounds of Hollow Point Ammunition   NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’ They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney, etc.  

Rule 5 Sunday: Time After Time

— compiled by Wombat-socho Welcome once again to the weekly obeisance to Rule 5 here at The Other McCain! For those of you new to the site, discretion is advised in following the links below; while many of them are discreet and tasteful, others are most definitely NSFW. Fishersville Mike leads off this week with […]

Would Libertarians Practically Achieve
“A World Without Moral Judgments”?

by Smitty While a tremendous Nick Gillespie fan, I can’t suppress a guffaw at this: I submit to you that few statements are more wrong than saying “libertarians might want a world without moral judgments.” From my vantage point, one of the things to which libertarianism is dedicated is the proliferation of moral judgments by […]

Let Them* Eat Debate (*Krugmanauts)

by Smitty More at KrugmnanDebate.com.

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