The Other McCain

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

Parenthood Is Noble

by Smitty (via Insty) Of all the lies of the modern Progressive movement, an overarching falsehood is that fatherhood and motherhood are not good. This is implicit in things like the Overpopulation Myth and the Gender/Sexuality Are Socially Constructed Myths. It’s been explicit in the feminist assault on motherhood. The result? Virginia Postrel can meaningfully […]

Geraldine Ferraro Passes, Sarah Salutes
Update: Another WBC WTF

by Smitty (via Snark and Boobs on Twitter) News of the passage of Geraldine Ferraro saddens all. Prof. Jacobson has the shorter tribute: “I liked her, even when I disagreed with her.” Sarah Palin offers an extended salute: On the Passing of Geraldine Ferraro by Sarah Palin on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 9:29pm My […]

That Saucy Steyn

by Smitty . . .as much as I like the idea of Canadian military commanders randomly invading Muslim nations, I feel the gig should have gone to a Mexican general. After all, the Administration pretty much insisted this is a job Americans won’t do.

I Hate It When They Lay The Truth Out Like That

by Smitty Eric Posner at Volokh presents the challenge, emphasis mine: Today, originalists—or at least those who enjoy influence such as judges—occupy themselves with the Bill of Rights, and, with the exception of the second amendment, the whole tenor of the movement has been oriented toward eliminating the various civil-liberty related rights manufactured during the […]

‘Derp’ Must Be The New
‘Shut Up, He Explained’

by Smitty There was a fun exchange on a recent post, Troubleshooting ‘Beyond the Welfare State’, with a certain Mork. Mork: People say they hate “welfare” until they are beneficiaries of it. Plenty of Tea Partiers show up to rallies riding their state-subsidized electric scooters. smitty: The fact that state welfare distorts behavior in anti-liberty […]

Akbar And Quest: Separated At Birth?

by Smitty Just sayin’:

About The Only Unused Obama Comparison Remaining: Elric

by Smitty American Power has a jaunty image of a smiling BHO getting his sports on. The post title mentions ‘a disinterested and semi-retired American superpower’. Now that BHO has his Very Own War, though the notion of the Tomahawk missile as Stormbringer and BHO as Elric of Melniboné comes to mind. From Wikipedia: Elric […]

Guilty Twitter Pleasures

by Smitty While I didn’t work much on my project tonight, I did see that IowaHawk served up something suitably serious for the POTUS March Madness Moment. This appears to have led to an Obama’s Bracket hash tag on twitter, to which I contributed the following: Twitter hashes: your sophomoric outlet. Twice as good with […]

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