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FORMER NYC MAYOR ED KOCH DIES

The New York Times: Edward I. Koch, the master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams, died Friday morning at age 88. More reaction at Memeorandum. […]

What A Lucid Politician Sounds Like

by Smitty Senator Coburn states flatly that the debt ceiling hike is coming, unstoppably, describes the impending debt spiral. He the ventures into the output of the Department of Superfluous Redundancy Department. I think Senator Coburn refers to the report linked here. What Senator Coburn doesn’t seem to understand is that homo bureaucratus is achieving […]

Smitty’s Pancake Odyssey, Or:
Owning @ChrisLoesch

by Smitty Can’t let this pass: Here is a screen cap of the Loesch’s Paleo-Pancake recipe in reverse order but all together. #Enjoy! twitter.com/ChrisLoesch/st… — Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) January 29, 2013 Here was my ‘pancake odyssey’ from a couple Saturdays back. A series of tweets culminating in buttermilk pancakes from scratch follows. twitpic.com/bwk757 — Smitty […]

Hawkins: 15 Lies Of Liberalism

by Smitty A great article by John Hawkins: 9) …liberals want unity and bipartisanship, which they apparently believe they can accomplish by spewing pure hatred and smearing, demonizing, threatening, and lying about anyone who disagrees with them. 10) …it’s going to deliver equality of outcomes for everyone, which is true, if by “delivering equality of […]

What If Beck’s Experiment. . .Works?

by Smitty His proposed $2-billion city would be based on a free-market, limited government model. No location has been pegged down, but Mr. Beck has visited “three possible sites in three different states” and has spoken to two governors, said Mr. Beck’s TheBlaze TV website. The self-sustaining city would include a ranch for food production, […]

Daniel Hannan Is One Of The Reasons We Don’t Lose Hope

by Smitty The Oxford Union Founded in 1823, the Union has hosted world leaders in virtually every field. These have included Presidents Nixon, Carter and Reagan, Michael Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Diego Maradona, the Dalai Lama, Benazir Bhutto and Mother Teresa. More recently we have been honoured by visits from speakers as varied as Shakira, Tony […]

This Blog Votes We Accept @DarleenClick’s Apology

by Smitty I want to apologize (again) for the sheer mendouchious twatwafflery of my state for inflicting Dianne Feinstein on the country. #tcot #tgdn — darleenclick (@darleenclick) January 25, 2013 Darleen blogs at Protein Wisdom, by the way.

Gregory Kane Opines That Colin Powell Could Be A Latent Democrat

by Smitty I still recall with fondness then-JCS Chairman General Powell around 20 years ago speaking to us in a college setting. At the time, his sheer command presence had me thinking that he could well be our first black POTUS. And now he’s reduce to taking pot shots at women who are not (at […]

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