The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 08.03.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Short-Term FAA Funding In The Works Democratic Congressional leadership proposes clean funding bill to get furloughed workers back on job, taxes collected again; will GOP agree to unanimous consent without cuts to subsidy program? Budget Battles Shift To Smaller Arena Joint committee will face same issues that made debt […]

I … See … Crazy People

One of the amazing things about the whole debt-ceiling episode is how it has caused liberals to say stuff even crazier than the crazy stuff they usually say. Michael Lind at Salon: The debt ceiling crisis is the latest case in which the radical right in the South has held America hostage until its demands […]

Preshizzle Brings The Double Dizzle

by Smitty Yid with Lid enumerates the news, then points out the coming Equality of Condition: The only possible good news coming out of the latest economic reports is the “class warfare” approach is likely to end soon. Not because of any change of heart by the President, but because the ruined economy will leave […]

Higher Education Bubble, IYKWIMAITYD

If Glenn Reynolds hasn’t linked this yet, it’s only a matter of time: As the cost of college skyrockets, and students and recent graduates get buried under “piles of student debt and a job-scarce, lackluster economy,” more and more of them are turning to “sugar daddies,” says Amanda Fairbanks at The Huffington Post. Sites like […]

Dow Drops 266 Points, Both Sides Race to Claim Defeat in Debt-Deal Compromise

Who didn’t see this coming? For months we were warned that financial catastrophe would ensue unless Congress raised the debt ceiling. So Congress raised the debt ceiling and . . . financial catastrophe: Stocks plunge as economic concerns grow Associated Press NEW YORK — A sell-off is erasing all of the year’s gains in the […]

The Refreshing Daniel Hannan

by Smitty The lucid speech, the extremely dry humor, the calm facing of the challenges: Hannan is truly a light in the Progressive darkness. via Theo Spark

Jonah Goldberg, in Fine Form

Worked up into a long-overdue rant: Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as […]

‘That Evil Hour …’

How long, O Lord, how long? Where will it end? All I ever wanted out of this campaign was enough money to get out of the country and live for a year or two in peaceful squalor in a house with a big screen porch looking down on an empty white beach, with a good […]

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