The Other McCain

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

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McConnell: RNC Fundraising Presentation ‘Not Helpful’

Marty Peretz Declares Victory in Iraq

It’s a rather idiosyncratic argument that will be of interest mainly to foreign policy junkies, which I’m not. Still, you’ve got to love the money quote: Frankly, I couldn’t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs turning out especially well. This is, you will say, my prejudice. But some prejudices are built on real […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Rule 5 Sunday. Last night on Twitter I happened into the #thankaliberal hash tag. And an argument with someone, presumably in CA, that Liberals invented the Internet. Whatevah. I need this post so that ah can get mah head right again. Here’s My Thing brings the Shannon Elizabeth, and Emmy Rossum. The Pirate’s […]

Why Do Charles Johnson’s Beliefs Keep Turning Out to Be Delusional?

Professor Glenn Reynolds has linked my essay about narcissism, scapegoating and paranoia. Speaking of paranoid narcissists, remember when Charles Johnson called the Pentagon shooter an “anti-government right wing extremist of the Ron Paulian persuasion”?  Wrong again, Chuckles. John Patrick Bedell was a dopehead peacenik loser of the “No Blood for Oil” persuasion who slowly descended into paranoid psychosis: Bedell . . . had vigorously […]

OMG: Michael Moore as COS?

Really, this is PuffHo, not ScrappleFace.

Analysis Of Lefty Reaction To Sarah On Leno

by Smitty Dan Riehl has Stewart’s analysis. Riehl on Stewart, emphasis mine: Any grand conclusions are silly at this point. But as for the Palin versus Romney match up on TV he looks at, he’s spot on. These types of match ups just don’t work well for Romney. Unfortunately, that’s as much about Romney’s trouble […]

Paco’s Struggle Against Homo Bureaucratus

by Smitty With some formatting help from me, Paco notes the sad state of the State: The ostentatious policy-wonkishness of the Obama administration is something that I now have the misfortune of living with every day at my own agency. The primary feature of this bureaucratic fantasy world is an unprecedented number of political employees […]

Yglesias Is As Unimpressive As Brooks

by Smitty Here is Matthew Yglesias at Think Knucklehead arguing against Judd Gregg. Yglesias, whose literacy seems challenged, appears to misread deliberately what he quoted from Gregg: The Senate was structured to be the place where bills which rushed through the House because they have a lot of rules that limit debate and allow people […]

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