The Other McCain

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

Judd Gregg Succumbs to Palinphobia

In a column for The Hill, the former New Hampshire senator surveys the 2012 GOP presidential primary field and confronts his dread fear that You-Know-Who might win the nomination: Because the nominating process has become so dominated by primary elections, with the vast majority of the delegates chosen by direct vote, it is entirely possible […]

Professor William Jacobson Given the Treatment by Fecal Matters

by Smitty Media Matters went after Legal Insurrection, reports Prof. Jacobson: Doesn’t Media Matters, with all its new Soros money, have anything better to do than take my posts out of context? That is who they are; that is what they do. The crucial point that all moderate and conservative Americans need to realize is […]

Do Not Succumb To Eric S. Raymond’s Despair

by Smitty ESR seems correct in asserting the apocalypse is nigh. But even if they immanentize the escargot, we can’t fold, as he advocates. If half the battle is showing up, then going radio silent ensures you have not input after the come-to-Beavis moment. For all the US has gone way off course the next […]

Props To Obi’s Sister

by Smitty She’s been in the blogosphere five years now. She’s actually quoted me on occasion, for which my ego is deeply grateful. Here’s to a full decade!

‘Remain Calm! All Is Well!’

The famous cinematic words of Chip Diller kept replaying in my mind Sunday night after I got an e-mail from a friend telling me that we’d all breathe a sigh of relief when, on Monday or Tuesday, we were told that the Japanese had the whole problem under control. It wasn’t clear whether my friend […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.14.11

TOP NEWS Japan Earthquake: Survivor Swept Ten Miles Out To Sea Rescued by Japanese destroyer after two days at sea on his roof Tsunami warning canceled New reactor blast unlikely to have caused radiation leak PM Kan: Quake, Tsunami Worst Crisis Since WWII State Department Spokesman Crowley Resigns Called treatment of PFC Manning “ridiculous and […]

Noonan On Rumsfeld: Really, Woman, Really?

by Smitty Newspapers like the WSJ on the Kindle are a surprise feature. Reading Peggy Noonan’s review/screed against Donald Rumsfeld should have come as no surprise. I did just finish reading “Known and Unknown”, so it’s a twofer both to mention what a valuable read it was and tell Peggy what to do with her […]

James Wolcott: ‘Those Sort of People’

When you turn over a rock, you expect to find creepy-crawly things, but still sometimes … “I don’t think Felker had any way of knowing what was going to happen. Christgau, Goldstein … it was those sort of people who really formed the core of politicizing the Voice and really pushing its cultural coverage to […]

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