The Other McCain

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

Social Science Isn’t Scientific

“Unlike physics or biology, the social sciences have not demonstrated the capacity to produce a substantial body of useful, nonobvious, and reliable predictive rules about what they study — that is, human social behavior, including the impact of proposed government programs.” — Jim Manzi, “What Social Science Does — and Doesn’t — Know,” City Journal

Victoria Jackson In A Retro Moment

by Smitty (h/t NiceDeb) Somehow, explaining the current situation to colonials results in guffaws. It’s dated last November. Missed it somehow. NOTE from RSM: “A Fat Man Flying!”

Raise Fareed Zakaria’s Taxes!

I agree with that part of his argument, although his argument for raising everybody else’s taxes by repealing the Bush tax cuts is kinda lame. On the other hand, considering that he is the highly-paid foreign editor of a bankrupt magazine that just sold for $1, maybe Fareed Zakaria could get laid off and collect 99 […]

Michelle Malkin: ‘I Stand by My Endorsement of J.D. Hayworth’

KFYI-550 AM via Sonoran Alliance: Here’s video of J.D. debating that useless RINO last month: Arizona Republican U.S. Senate Debate – Phoenix from JD Hayworth for U.S. Senate on Vimeo. J.D. HAYWORTH for U.S. SENATE

They’ll Never Steal a Chevy Volt

Car thieves aren’t doing their share to save the planet: The Cadillac Escalade, a big luxury sport-utility vehicle, once the favorite of rappers and moguls alike, remains tops for average insurance theft losses, according to the insurance industry’s Highway Loss Data Institute report out today. Other automotive eye candy, such as the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, […]

Paco Strikes Again

by Smitty Paco serves up a splendid bit of palate cleansing fiction. Among several savorable sequences, there is this: Kerry – tall and saturnine, with a face like a garden spade and hair resembling a nicely maintained badger pelt – walked hurriedly into the room and took J.P.’s outstretched hand. “Senator, what a delightful surprise! […]

Jon Meacham’s $1 Legacy

One dollar — that was the reported selling price of Newsweek, following Meacham’s disastrously pretentious “re-invention” of the magazine. Let’s see if we can figure out why that didn’t work: To cite one obvious example: newsweeklies annually marked Christian holidays with a cover story on a religious theme, always respectful and sometimes celebratory in tone. […]

When Maxine Waters Needed Ethics Advice, She Turned to Barney Frank

Maybe you see the problem here: US Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts urged Representative Maxine Waters of California to avoid any dealings with Boston-based OneUnited Bank because her husband owned stock in it. But the congresswoman didn’t heed his warnings, according to a House ethics report released yesterday, and now faces a possible trial before […]

« go back — keep looking »