The Other McCain

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

Smitty and Tammy, Sittin’ in a Tree . . .

You probably know the rest of that playground poem from memory, but Smitty’s a married man and his wife’s not named Tammy. However, Smitty did get a shout-out from Tammy Bruce when she had as a guest on her radio show our good blog-buddy Big Fur Hat from IOwnTheWorld.com: If you lack the patience to […]

He’s So Much Smarter Than You!

If there is anything I can’t stand, it’s a writer who begins with the presumption that his readers are infinitely ignorant: In the jargon of the field, this is called “cognitive dissonance” — the psychological mechanism we all use to justify our choices and beliefs and preserve our self-esteem. That’s from a HuffPo blogger, writing […]

IT’S ALIVE!

The dreaded scourge of “liberaltarianism” — the heinous Cato Institute monster that first terrorized America in the waning years of the Bush era — has been revived, at least in the dope-addled mind of Will Wilkinson, who sees in the enthusiasms of Timothy B. Lee the spark to resurrect that nightmare. It was Brink Lindsey who created that […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.18.11

TOP NEWS Apple’s Jobs Takes Medical Leave Again Can Apple survive without its wizard? Greed Of Leila Ben Ali Major Goad To Tunisian Revolt “The Imelda Marcos of the Arab World” House GOP Ready To Rumble Repeal/replacement of Obamacare still job #1 Lebanon On Brink Of Chaos As UN Indictments Delivered Ayatollah Khamenei, Hezbollah charged […]

Worst. Congress. EVAH! Also Turns Out to Have Been Breathtakingly Unethical

Remember when Democrats promised to clean up the “culture of corruption” in Washington? Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, despite warnings that such actions could create ethics problems. The campaign donations often came from contributors with major stakes riding […]

That Was Crazier Than A Stacy McCain Road Trip

by Smitty I got no business being online, having arisen yesterday morning around 0800. Got all the duffel bags loaded into the truck (old school working party-style) around 1300 Christmas Eve and bussed over to the Air Force Base in Kuwait. Another working party unloaded truck, and whisked the duffel bags onto three pallets for […]

Rape: I’m Against It

Also arson, armed robbery and extortion. Pretty much everything that’s illegal, I’m against it — fireworks and high-speed driving being the two (usually) victimless crimes of which I’m most fond. However, nobody’s asked me today about why I hate Nanny State anti-fireworks laws (“Light Fuse, Get Away“), nor have I been asked to debate whether the […]

Damn You, Obama: FCC ‘Net Neutrality’ Decision Forces Me to Blog About the World’s Most Boring Public-Policy Debate

Please, somebody, book me a dental appointment for a root canal, but don’t expect me to get into the soporific wonkfest of blogging about Net Neutrality. During BlogCon in September we were having a fun discussion of politics when some idiot brought up Net Neutrality — and there went 20 minutes of our lives we can never get […]

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