The Other McCain

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

Third Option–Term Limits

by Smitty The Instapundit in USAToday: There are two possible ways to address this problem. One is to elect people that everyone trusts. The problem with that is that there aren’t any politicians that everyone trusts — and, alas, if there were, the odds are good that such trust would turn out to be misplaced. […]

Prepping The Next Conflict

by Smitty Hector Timerman has refused to meet representatives of the Falkland Islands government, which Argentina does not recognise as legitimate. The islanders were expected to tell Mr Timerman that Buenos Aires should respect islanders’ rights and leave them in peace. Fortunately for Argentina, #OccupyResoluteDesk doesn’t care about Malvinas, Melvins or the Maldives. Endives aren’t […]

Daniel Hannan Quotes Our Declaration Of Independence To The Eurocrats

by Smitty Logophile bonus: about halfway through, he uses ‘peregrination‘, which is not what you get from the Governor of Texas when he hears a joke. via Daniel Hannan’s blog

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 […]

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