The Other McCain

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

Ancient Rock’n’Roll Factoid Of The Day

by Smitty Did not know this: The name of Claude Nobs will be forever enshrined in Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water, the song with perhaps the most famous riff in rock history. Nobs was a co-founder of the Montreaux Jazz Festival, which by the early 1970s had grown to embrace rock artists such as […]

Bad News: Low-End Plan Costs $20 Large.
Good News: We Know What It Says

by Smitty In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. $20 large is rather dear for “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning,” isn’t it? Especially at an outfit […]

Alex Pareene Shocked To Learn That Rational Americans Think Him Daft

by Smitty “Americans shocked to learn that there isn’t actually a Social Security crisis” I guess we can view this assertion as somehow valid to the extent that, say, Terri Shiavo was arguably not in a crisis, either. But truly: Despite the staggering popularity and undeniable success of Social Security, a lot of political figures […]

FORMER NYC MAYOR ED KOCH DIES

The New York Times: Edward I. Koch, the master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams, died Friday morning at age 88. More reaction at Memeorandum. […]

What A Lucid Politician Sounds Like

by Smitty Senator Coburn states flatly that the debt ceiling hike is coming, unstoppably, describes the impending debt spiral. He the ventures into the output of the Department of Superfluous Redundancy Department. I think Senator Coburn refers to the report linked here. What Senator Coburn doesn’t seem to understand is that homo bureaucratus is achieving […]

Smitty’s Pancake Odyssey, Or:
Owning @ChrisLoesch

by Smitty Can’t let this pass: Here is a screen cap of the Loesch’s Paleo-Pancake recipe in reverse order but all together. #Enjoy! twitter.com/ChrisLoesch/st… — Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) January 29, 2013 Here was my ‘pancake odyssey’ from a couple Saturdays back. A series of tweets culminating in buttermilk pancakes from scratch follows. twitpic.com/bwk757 — Smitty […]

Hawkins: 15 Lies Of Liberalism

by Smitty A great article by John Hawkins: 9) …liberals want unity and bipartisanship, which they apparently believe they can accomplish by spewing pure hatred and smearing, demonizing, threatening, and lying about anyone who disagrees with them. 10) …it’s going to deliver equality of outcomes for everyone, which is true, if by “delivering equality of […]

What If Beck’s Experiment. . .Works?

by Smitty His proposed $2-billion city would be based on a free-market, limited government model. No location has been pegged down, but Mr. Beck has visited “three possible sites in three different states” and has spoken to two governors, said Mr. Beck’s TheBlaze TV website. The self-sustaining city would include a ranch for food production, […]

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