The Other McCain

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

It’s Time To Call The Bluff On Progressivism

by Smitty Megan McArdle offers an outstanding play-by-play of the dust-up between Wisconsin’s Wonkish Wunderkind and Krugman. Krugman is “that fool on television getting payed to play the fool”, and we all get that, including Krugman. The economic models are slightly better than global warming models, I can opine with as much legitimacy as anyone […]

HR1586: ‘Legislate In Haste, Amend At Leisure’ Now Making Oscar Wilde
Look Serious

by Smitty Unserious Bluegrass Pundit has us on a merry chase, trying to find out the meaning of HR1586, which was passed : Cato and CNET were on the case: It was supposed to be some routine election-year largesse from Democrats: a $26 billion spending measure to aid two of the party’s core constituencies, labor […]

Illegal Gaylians Meet In Frisco To Form Vast Hermaphrodite, Enjoy Social Services, Feel Green, Blame Bush

by Smitty I, for one, am thankful that our Progressive Overlords, for example, Judge Walker, and Judge Bolton know what’s best for us. If only their wisdom had prevailed in 1776. We could have kept the pound, the King, and now be enjoying rugby and cricket. These silly Conservatives need to refrain from restraining the […]

FBI Files Reveal Historian Howard Zinn Lied to Hide CPUSA Membership

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document drop on the Left’s favorite anti-American historian: On July 30, 2010, the FBI released one file with three sections totaling 423 pages on Howard Zinn, a best selling radical historian, teacher, playwright, and political activist. . . . In 1949, the FBI opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn (FBI File […]

One Approach Exceeds The Other

by Smitty Via No Quarter: Spoke with David Drucker, Roll Call, to learn that the Democratic leadership in the Senate openly describes its strategy for the mid-term election as a version of going negative early, late, and always. The Democratic campaign charge, according to Robert Menendez of New Jersey, is to paint the Republicans as […]

Get Bent, Ezra Klein

by Smitty Ezra speaks in the comPost, emphsis mine: The constitutional option gets its name from Article I, Section V of the Constitution, which states that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.” In order to fulfill this constitutional order, the Senate must be able to, well, determine its rules. A filibuster, technically, […]

Andy McCarthy’s Grand Jihad Is A Must-Read

by Smitty I just finished Chapter 9, ‘Not Such Strange Bedfellows’ in McCarthy’s book. The summary paragraph: Revolutionaries of Islam and the Left make fast friends when there is a common enemy to besiege. Leftists, however are essentially nihilists who hazy vision prioritizes power over what is to be done with power. They are biddable. […]

Repeat After Me: Raaaaacism Is DNA-Based Decision Making

by Smitty Also, sexism. ‘Diversity’, in the Progressive Inverted Tongue (PIT)*, just means that some Affirmative Action mafia manages the raaaaacism, ‘white’ washing it with the magic squiggle (signature) of some bureaucrat. La Shawn Barber points to a post at Minding the Campus, where Russell K. Nieli explores “How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and […]

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