The Other McCain

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

Will This Bill Not Get A Constitutional Challenge, If Passed?

by Smitty (via Big Government) The Hill reports on a casual $100B that will blow right past state capitals and go to local governments: Miller’s bill would make $100 billion in grants available to localities over the next two years in the form of grant programs for funds to save or create local jobs, or […]

Paco’s Struggle Against Homo Bureaucratus

by Smitty With some formatting help from me, Paco notes the sad state of the State: The ostentatious policy-wonkishness of the Obama administration is something that I now have the misfortune of living with every day at my own agency. The primary feature of this bureaucratic fantasy world is an unprecedented number of political employees […]

One Fails To Understand How David Brooks Breathes

by Smitty David Brooks excreted another verbal puddle of nonsense into the NYeT yesterday. He sets out to compare/contrast people who are alerted to the Constitutional threat with…hippies. About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return […]

Screw Pluribus: Unum

by Smitty Ace seems kind of worried about Einstein, the shiny new data omnivore soon to be devouring an email box all too near you. Yukon Axis of Evil illuminati industrial intelligence mailbomb Bush Wired AMEMB Aldergrove Ft. Bragg BLU-114/B rs9512c UMTS security BROMURE FSF First of all, not having seen line #1 of the […]

Notes From A Dream In Which I Was An Idiot

by Smitty Halifax, Nova Scotia could need to rebuild the whole waterfront, if a new study floating the possibility of a 2 1/3 foot rise in ocean levels pans out. The really dreamy part was how the ocean picked up all the swelling in Eastern Canada only, while the rest of Mother Earth wobbled about […]

Organizing For America Sent Me a Fundraising E-Mail

There is no problem that liberals can’t solve. Just send OFA more of your money! Robert — Yesterday’s disappointing election results show deep discontent with the pace of change. I know the OFA community and the President share that frustration. We also saw what we knew to be true all along: Any change worth making […]

The Nebulous Alan Colmes

I think that Alan Colmes implicitely raises one of the greatest questions a society can ask of itself: what information is passed from one generation to another?

In a mature nation, President Obama could go on TV and say, “Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but some terrorists are bound to get through.” But this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways.

And can you give one example of this nebulous “mature nation” of yours? How is this “maturity” measured, and maintained? The implication seems to be that maturity==indifference.

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