The Other McCain

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

Rallying To Find Ways That Lefties Are Not Completely Untrue RE Sequestration

by Smitty Americans for Prosperity sure isn’t Americans Trying To Help A Beleaguered Administration Find A Way To Navigate A Second Term. So, despite all the mean-spirited nit-picking of their post, this blog will, once again, fearlessly step into the breach, and try to salvage some of that tattered honor: Fiction: FAA: “In one of […]

American Guts: #StandWithRand

by Smitty Rand Paul took the floor of the Senate around noon today for a good, old-fashioned filibuster. Spot on. The purpose is to find out just where the 5th Amendment line is on drone strikes on Americans on American soil. The direct effect of the filibuster is to threaten a delay of a vote […]

Also Sprach Daniel Hannan

by Smitty Americans! The US Constitution may be flawed, but it’s a great deal better than what you have now! — Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) March 2, 2013 Two months into our celebration of a century of Woodrow Wilson, one question is whether the people have been flogged enough to understand that the Progressive Project is […]

@Rare-in To Go

by Smitty Email rumors abound today of a new right-of-center news site called Rare that is set to launch Real Soon Now. It looks like this is a venture backed by Cox Media Group, and edited by somebody who is excellent, as judged by her career trajectory, but with whom this blog has had a […]

Wondering If Lawyers Aren’t Really A Test Of The Infinite Mercy Of The Almighty

by Smitty Nicely done, by a lawyer: Via Wysocki

Crowdsourced Seminars For The Undereducated, @BobJanz Edition

by Smitty Truly a sweet troll: I’d like to request everyone on Twitter tweet Bob Janz, name one of his fallacies and give him a URL to help claw his way back to knowledge. .@bobjanz Imma fave your tweet, as I think it achieves an ignorance density of greater concentration than all of MSNBC. @darleenclick […]

Wrong Litmus Test

by Smitty Sorry, Mickey: You’d think the rule that should govern pundits is “if it’s a deal within the bounds of reason, and a net plus for the country, it’s good. If not, it’s not.” No. It’s still “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Not buying any squishy re-phrasings with ambiguous, who/whom “net plus […]

Could Sequestration Be The Tipping Point In The Farce Parade?

by Smitty I, for one, have been wondering just how much more jacked up our government could get before a total sieze-up. Over at Red State, Rep. Tom Graves points out: Frankly, the sequester doesn’t do much to stop the growth of spending and government. Let’s say you gain 10 pounds per year, but your […]

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