The Other McCain

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

You Can’t Have Your Cow And Milk It, Too

by Smitty (via Protein Wisdom) The bog-like decay of a legal system run amok produces another horrible result in Wisconsin: On September 9, Judge Fiedler issued his decision on the motion, stating that the court’s August 12 denial of plaintiffs’ motion for judgment meant the following: Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own […]

Mead Was Nearly Onto Something There

by Smitty Walter Russell Mead shoots. . .it rolls around the rim. . .falls out. Sonofa. (Emphasis mine): For all the brouhaha over the Citizens United decision, however, campaign finance reform was never the ideal way to reduce the influence of special interests on politicians. Despite the howling from the commentariat about “opening the floodgates” […]

World’s Youngest Blogger Responds To ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Piffle

by The World’s Youngest Blogger With the firm support of his proud grandfather, The World’s Youngest Blogger offers a succinct editorial response to people behaving in an infantile fashion. And the WYB does know infantile.

Dear NYPD …

NYPD resisted the temptation to kill this Commie douchenozzle Permit me to praise you, courageous officers of the New York Police Department, for your admirable restraint in dealing with the smelly Marxist scum currently infesting your city. While I haven’t previously bothered to grant any underserved publicity to the vermin involved in the “Occupy Wall […]

‘Support a Progressive Champion’

Readers will excuse my lack of blogging today, as I’ve been on the phone and working on an article about the Orlando straw poll. Smitty seems to have been a busy blog beaver, perhaps having escaped the Third World bandwidth suckage en route from Afghanistan toward home, so a dearth of updates is fortunately not […]

Schadenfreude At TNR

by Smitty Galston at TNR delivers an article moping that the Democrats are losing Independents. Granted, ideology isn’t everything. Political scientists have long observed that Americans are more liberal on particulars than they are in general—ideologically conservative but operationally liberal. (Surveys have shown majority support for most individual elements of the president’s jobs and budget […]

There Exist Things That Make The PuffingtonHost Look Sane

by Smitty Insty is off doing the Founders proud, and he links some ‘Political Eclownomist’ named Raymond Lotta who has apparently smoked a. . .no, too obvious. Under the rubric of dialogue and debate between the “Left” and Right about amending the U.S. constitution, this conference will further legitimate the reactionary Tea Party movement. The […]

Three Big Advantages To Emailing Pictures Of Your Junk

by Smitty The dour old Daily Pundit doesn’t really see what a big plus junk photos can be: They can give you a sense of power. In a Progressive America, where notions of liberty have been supplanted by sexual license, it’s important that teenagers and politicians alike (insofar as you can tell the two categories […]

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