The Other McCain

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

Liberals Cheer as Lawyers Attempt to Destroy the Housing Market in Maryland

David Dayen at Firedoglake is doing cartwheels: In a major ruling Friday, a coalition of nonprofit defense lawyers and consumer protection advocates in Maryland successfully got over 10,000 foreclosure cases managed by GMAC Mortgage tossed out, because affidavits in the cases were signed by Jeffrey Stephan, the infamous GMAC “robo-signer” who attested to the authenticity […]

How to Talk to a Follower of
the Zeitgeist Cult (If You Must)

In response to my descriptions of Zeitgeist — the conspiracy-cult movie that Jared Loughner’s friend says had a “profound impact” on the Tucson massacre gunman — I today received an e-mail from a British follower of the Zeitgeist Movement. He repeated the cult’s own mantras about substituting an egalitarian global redistributionist “resource-based economy” for the […]

Salvia, Zeitgeist and the Tucson Shooter

Leaving aside Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and the Left’s “blood libel” hysteria, let’s examine the factors that really motivated mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner. First, here is a four-minute Associated Press video interview with George Osler, father of Loughner’s friend Osler: “There was a lot of talk about lucid dreaming and understanding reality. . . . […]

Democrats Continue 2010 Campaign, Attack GOP for ‘Tax Cuts for Millionaires’

Spokesman for Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen: “It is nothing more than an old Republican scheme to provide back door tax cuts for millionaires and special interests, run up the deficit, and then hide the bill from the American people.” Van Hollen, of course, was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2010 […]

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Obama Administration ‘Destroying This Country’

Our “Full Metal Jacket Reach-Around” (Rule 2) is named in honor of a memorable remark by the Marine drill instructor in the 1987 Kubrick classic. An actual Marine, R. Lee Ermey, was perfectly cast in that role. At a Toys for Tots event last month, Ermey spoke out against the Obama administration: “The economy really […]

Foreclosures Rising, Home Prices Slumping: Can You Say ‘Double-Dip’?

The stimulus that didn’t stimulate has now been exhausted, and all the gimmicks by which the Obama administration attempted to hide the economic catastrophe — remember “Recovery Summer“? — have failed to change the somber reality: U.S. home foreclosures jumped in the third quarter and banks’ efforts to keep borrowers in their homes dropped as […]

Class Warfare vs. Economic Facts

“A 2008 study of 24 leading economies by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concludes that, ‘Taxation is most progressively distributed in the United States, probably reflecting the greater role played there by refundable tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit. . . . Taxes tend […]

Pensions, Bankruptcy . . . and Racism?

Instapundit links to a New York Times story about the failure of the pension plan for municipal workers in Pritchard, Alabama. One thing that intrigued me about the story is something New York Times reporters Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh barely brushed up against, the elephant in the room, race: The situation in Prichard […]

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