The Other McCain

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

Fred Phelps And Westboro Baptist Predictably Tasteless In Remembering Liz Taylor

by Smitty (h/t Tatler) CBS News: Yes, the Westboro Baptist Church – the Kansas-based organization with a history of holding controversial and politically inflammatory protests – has announced that its members plan to picket the star’s funeral, according to reports. TMZ reports that Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro leader Fred Phelps, sounded off on Twitter […]

Your Bagram Accommodations

by Smitty 5 seconds of video takes half an hour to push to YouTube through YouStraw, but this is what it looks like back in the hooch: More pictures and notes below the fold:

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 […]

Should Any ‘Spooky Dude’ Be Allowed To Recast The Global Economy?

by Smitty (via Drudge) Liberty? Sovereignty? Are they quaint notions? The Business & Media Institute reports: Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start – and no one seems to have noticed. On April 8, a group he’s funded […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.24.11

TOP NEWS Fears Grow Of Humanitarian Crisis In Misurata Aid organizations scramble to prevent massive disaster Allied Strikes Target Loyalist Forces Near Misurata New Problems At Fukushima Reactors Subdue Optimism Salt buildup concerns nuclear engineers even as progress is made on restoring power to the Fukushima plant Boehner Presses Administration For Clarity On Libya Goals […]

Helping Ace With His Joe Lieberman Blogging

by Smitty For Heaven’s sake, Ace: you can’t have a title like Joe Lieberman: “You Can’t Stay Out of These Things [Foreign Wars Like Libya]… You Have To Take Chances” without reaching for the ABBA: Sung from Momar’s vantage, the lyrics take on grotesque irony.

‘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 […]

U.S. Policy On Libya Explained: It Was All An Esoteric Steven Wright Reference

by Smitty Looking at Gateway Pundit’s latest post on Libya, enlightenment struck: the whole apparent disaster is merely a reference to I Have A Pony. Hoft: “Obama Yesterday: Gaddafi Must Go… Obama Today: Gaddafi Can Stay (Video)” Now, quoting Wright from memory: I have a dog named Stay. When he was a puppy, I’d say […]

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