The Other McCain

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

Ah, Krauthammer

by Smitty (via NRO) From CK on Fox: I am surprised that so many Republicans are jumping on the War Powers Resolution. They will regret it, because if you have a Republican in office, you’re going to have isolationist Democrats who are going to try to restrain his exercise of his powers… and the Republicans […]

Everything Got Easier When We Blew Off The 10th Amendment

by Smitty (via Insty) TaxProf seems shocked, shocked! that the Treasury just made crap up to favor GM. As long as the power to frobnicate the economy is held in DC, that power will be used to frobnicate the economy. The useful question here is what we are doing to minimize that power, and get […]

Oh Come On, Stacy!

by Smitty I’m reading this otherwise excellent piece at AmSpec, and can’t buy the conclusion at all. Do you need a Clue, man? “Weiner, on the Spitzer show, with the drivel”. These are Progressives. This is who they are; this is what they do. Why, you ask? Compensating for not being Jimmie Bise, that’s why. […]

Insty Breaks Out The ZZ Top Reference

by Smitty Showdown, you bet! And I haven’t even saddled my pony yet! Deguello is my personal favorite ZZ Top release. Oh yeah, Insty is on about an article on The Hill where Speaker Boehner is turning up the heat on the POTUS over Libya: Boehner wrote: “Given the mission you have ordered to the […]

World’s Youngest Blogger Reacts To News Of Ridiculous, Irresponsible Government That Molests His Future

by Unborn Son of Smitty (who likes Instapundit but was nonplussed by his recent Full Sherman) Look: I wasn’t born yesterday, and may not be born tomorrow, but I have every confidence that I will be born Real Soon Now. Mother grows impatient, and threatens to eject me from the ‘house’, so to speak. And to […]

Minor Disagreement With VodkaPundit

by Smitty In an otherwise agreeable post on the possiblily of Texas Governor Perry running, Iron Liver remarks: . . .good candidates can be dismissed for trivial reasons. Ask Jeb Bush about that some time. Not to say that Jeb is a bad candidate in the slightest, but the anti-dynasty sentiment is non-trivial. As good […]

I Need People To Go Watch
‘The Undefeated’ For Me

by Smitty Based upon Dan Riehl’s review, The Undefeated may be bigger than the fattest documentary maker in Hollywood, which is to say: huge. As a personal favor, if you could all just go pack the theaters, and keep this flick showing until late July, when I get home on R&R, I would appreciate it.

Quantitative Easing Is Not Default!

by Smitty (h/t World’s Only Rational Man) I am nearly tempted to defend the Federal Reserve in the strongest terms. If I felt any more strongly that making money appear by piles of half a trillion was not theft, I would lay down a firm argument. Clearly, ‘Quantitative Easing’ has six syllables; ‘default’, a mere […]

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