The Other McCain

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

Crowder And Scrivener With The Crucial Palate Cleanser

by Smitty People ask me how it’s going, and I say “I can’t complain.” Case in point as to why:It’s explicitely spiritual, without being heavily evangelical. <jest>At the end, though, Crowder does ‘go British’, and starts hating on the Cosmic Credit Card that has made America great. Why do you hate Progress, Steven?</jest>

Precedents Worth Nurturing

by Smitty Insty links The Hill discussing snuffing the Department of Transportation. Appearing late last week on a radio show in his home state, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) agreed with the host of the program that the DOT was a “middleman” in transportation projects that can be done without. “Well, I think there are some […]

Connect These Dots

by Smitty Maggieby’s Farm: “The breakdown of the family lies behind all other urban dysfunction.” Althouse: “So, there’s this petition going around asking that Bert and Ernie — yes, the yellow and orange dudes from Sesame Street — get gay married.” The Progressive is the political equivalent of the stereotypical unethical used car salesmen. You […]

We Can See The Tell: ‘The Riots Did Not Have A Political Motivation’

by Smitty Daily Pundit links Taylor at Outside the Beltway on the British riots in what is yet another willful attempt at non-analysis: As best I can tell, the riots did not have a political motivation (the spark/excuse was the police shooting a suspect) and the general tenor appears to be wanton criminality rather than […]

I Would Just Like To Point Out. . .

by Smitty . . .that anybody who is surprised that a mortal man cannot magically fix the economy ought to have their head examined. Yeah, he was supposed to be all that and scoop of ice cream, the most over-sold thin since XML. Sure, it’s a bad thing that his ideas aren’t proving much. But […]

God Grant Joe Nocera A Moment Of Lucidity

by Smitty Via Memeorandum, this column in the Gray, Room-Temperature Lady is just a thing of beauty, if you find beauty staring down a port-a-john. Crescendo reached here: Then came the financial crisis. I like to joke that there’s nothing like a good financial crisis to turn you into a liberal. But it’s not really […]

Detective Paco On The Border

by Smitty A fine break from whatever you were doing: Psychologists will tell you that people, when faced with a threatening situation, react instinctively: either “fight or flight”. What they overlook is the not inconsiderable number of human beings who are occasionally overwhelmed with a desire to shrink to the size of a dime and […]

Hacking Our Way To Smaller Government

by Smitty Via Insty, MIT’s Technology Review points to a McAfee article about governments getting hacked. The attacks stretch back almost five years, and ranged in duration from one month to 28 months. They affected 32 types of organizations, including government agencies and defense, construction, information technology, and accounting firms. McAfee believes the attacks were […]

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