The Other McCain

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

We Need To Nail This Down Before Somebody Wants To Name Her After #OccupyResoluteDesk

by Smitty Via Insty and NRO, a petition to keep the name USS Enterprise in commission, rather than have various other news- or sympathy-worthy figures move in. The Ruling Class would prefer you to lose all sense of history, and live in a ‘managed’ present tense. Resist we much.

Breitbart DC: Instapundit Interviews

by Smitty Click the photo to go to PJTV and view the outstanding editing job of splicing various blogger interviews into a nifty segment remembering Andrew Breitbart. Here, the fabulous Dr. Helen conducted the interviews, while His Insta-badness worked the camera: Tidbits of Stacy, his close friend Tabitha Hale, Cynthia Yockey, and I are included, […]

Insta-RINO?

Has Glenn Reynolds joined the “Roll Over for Romney” movement? Back in 2008, the social-cons were all-in for Romney, to the point where Hugh Hewitt’s take became a running tagline (“You know who this is good for? Mitt Romney!”) that’s still used by by bloggers from time to time. Now, not so much. So what […]

Let’s Talk About Sex, Professor

Professor Glenn Reynolds talks a lot about sex, but he’s actually thinking about politics: I’m not much of a Santorum fan — to me, he seems like Mike Huckabee without the charm or political talent — but it’s hard not to notice the narrative jiu-jitsu here. The “narrative jiu-jitsu” involves something I explained yesterday: It is actually […]

Mead Seems Unaware Of How Perverse Use Of Technology By Government Is Wrecking Liberty

by Smitty I’ve been mocking Walter Russell Mead’s series on what the next round of Liberalism will look like. Part IV could be summarized as “Ain’t technology swell?” An inevitable question as we look at the demise of the 20th century economy is how shall we live? As the manufacturing that remains to us becomes […]

I Present To The Instapundit The Following Dilemma: Zeeba, Or Roseanne?

by Smitty In case you can’t tell them apart, there are no known recordings of Zeeba trashing the National Anthem. But Roseanne Barr is running for POTUS. Three cheers for democracy and hearing protection. More at American Glob.

Mead’s Rose Colored Glasses: Still Fetching

by Smitty Part two of Mead’s geosynchronous review of the Progressive cratering is up. Read the whole series, if you’ve time: Right now the right has something of a monopoly on this thinking, but when and if the left begins to reconnect with the ideas of emancipation and empowerment that are part of its historical […]

It Will Be Interesting To See If Mead Has Read Golberg, Or Listened To Whittle

by Smitty Via Insty, this new series by Walter Russell Mead is either going to get meatier, or stay out in geosynchronous orbit and suck: It is, of course, a very similar situation today. The forces ripping up our old social model are too powerful to beat. That is not because the rich bankers or […]

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