The Other McCain

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

Clueless Klein, Or, Why Congress Recalls A Toilet

by Smitty Reboot Congress points to a particularly ignorant 17th Amendment outing by Ezra Klein, who either cannot or will not explore the reasons why giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys (O’Rourke). Congress these days recalls a toilet. Not the bowl full of the unmentionable, […]

Never Question The Magnitude Of The Patriotism Of Howard Dean

by Smitty (h/t The Lonely Conservative) This is nine months old, but the most important thing to do is savor the matchless patriotism on display: International greetings : Greetings from Howard Dean from PES_Party of European Socialists on Vimeo. Additionally convenient: don’t ask toward which country Howard Dean is patriotic. It might not be the […]

Forgotten Victims of Sharptonism: Remembering Yankel Rosenbaum

“Al Sharpton is a professional bigot. During his long career the Reverend has incited two anti-Semitic pogroms; the Crown Heights riot and the firebombing of the Jewish-owned Freddy’a Fashion Mart in Harlem. Each of the Sharpton-incited pogroms resulted in deaths, but now for some unknown reason Reverend Al believes he is the caretaker of religious […]

Watch Out, Smitty: Rev. Al Sharpton and Code Pink Are Heading Your Way!

While Smitty is blogging from the Reflecting Pool, Al Sharpton is leading a march from Dunbar High School that is being live-blogged by The Washington Post‘s Krissah Thompson, a few excerpts of which are illustrative: Joyce White arrived at a what she called a counter-march to Fox News host Glenn Beck’s rally. She came to remember the […]

Who Doesn’t Enjoy Fisk-Flogging A Lefty Op-Ed?

by Smitty Michael Gerson’s 25 August op-ed is something of a treasure to be savored in full:

I’d Vote For A Frickin’ Wiccan

by Smitty . . .if that candidate took the Oath of Office in a serious way. Note to conservatives fretting un-knowable aspects of the Presidential character (is he Moslem?): nice gills. This argument joins Birtherism in the list of shiny, tangential arguments that can be used to manage the tempo of the news cycle. As […]

Call Me A Literalist

by Smitty However, this blog will echo CNSNews in calling foul about the tweaking of the Constitution that’s gone on at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Your tax dollars have been spent so that some Progressive could elide crucial bits of text: The full text of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 says: “The Congress […]

‘Liberal Ethics’ and Matthew Yglesias

By Any Means Necessary: Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias likes to call his political opponents “dishonest,” but in a revealing exchange on the website Twitter Friday he advocated lying for political purposes. “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias. The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, […]

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