The Other McCain

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

He’s Got a Ph.D. and a Nobel Prize, But . . .

. . . Paul Krugman is still a moron about economics: Free markets are “efficient” — which, in economics-speak as opposed to plain English, means that nobody can be made better off without making someone else worse off. Voluntary exchange — the free market — is mutually beneficial. The guy at the convenience store has gasoline. I’ve […]

Nevada Voters to Hopeless Harry Reid: ‘We’re Just Not That Into You’

Let’s see, 62% of Nevada voters oppose ObamaCare, and Harry Reid couldn’t get 50% in a poll match-up with Charles Manson, so obviously it’s time for Harry to make fun of Sarah Palin and launch a sparsely-attended bus tour of the state: “You can’t escape who you are. My roots are here and no one can take […]

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

Jim Hoft says it’s a “smear” for the New York Times to compare the Tea Party movement to the Weather Underground of the 1960s and ’70s. More to the point, the comparison is stupidly inaccurate. The Weathermen emerged after 1969 from Students for a Democratic Society — an organization, as it name says, composed primarily of college students. SDS […]

It’s David Brooks Fisking Day Again!

The World’s Worst Newspaper Columnist descends from Olympus to favor unworthy mortals with his esoteric wisdom: Human beings, the philosophers tell us, are social animals. We emerge into the world ready to connect with mom and dad. We go through life jibbering and jabbering with each other, grouping and regrouping. When you get a crowd […]

Paco Uses ‘Elitist C*nt’ In Reference To David Brooks!

by Smitty The Enterprising Paco appears to have gone all Dan Riehl over a certain John Feehery at the Daily Caller. Feehery’s piece is a prime example of Brooksian nematodery. The title of this post comes from the following passage of Paco’s flogging: You have unhappily tripped up upon your very entrance into the arena […]

‘Decent and Dignified Journalism’

New York Times poster, 1896: That was before they hired David Brooks, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. Just sayin’ . . .

Adam Gadahn Can Look Forward To Excruciating Torment

by Smitty Dan Riehl notes of the recent acquisition in Karachi: I also wish he were being interrogated under the Bush administration, as opposed to the current one. This blog has obtained some hush-hush footage of the new interrogation methods to be used by the Administration’s elite interrogation outfit, code name: Redwater. In our endless […]

All the News That’s Fit to Steal

The New York Times admits to acting as a “fence” for a word thief: Zachery Kouwe, a Times business reporter for a little over a year, resigned last month after he was accused of plagiarizing from The Wall Street Journal. . . . Plagiarism is a mortal journalistic sin, and Kouwe’s departure was inevitable from […]

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