The Other McCain

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

Madness Beneath the Palms

NAPLES, Fla. After driving all night from Orlando, I arrived about 5 a.m. here at a gated community where Dan Collins’s father has a condo. “Guest of Doctor Collins,” I told the guard at the gate. “Your name, sir?” “McCain.” The gate swung open and I cruised along the beautifull landscaped drive, up to the […]

Clearly They Move Into Higher-Order Pornography, i.e. Politics

by Smitty Forbes collects quotations from people in the pornography ‘industry’, and what a sad chuckle it is. Now, as a social conservative, I favor expressions of the human condition that drive individuals toward mature, happy, fruitful end states. Sexuality is a beautiful and powerful aspect of the human condition. Step away from the hormones […]

More Of This

by Smitty Via Insty, Intellectual Conservative (aren’t all the anti-intellectuals on the Left?), gave #OccupyResoluteDesk a solid, American welcome:I hope that spring and summer provide some rousing rally opportunities.

Mitch Daniels Did Not Impress Me

by Smitty While I liked Mitch Daniel’s SOTU response, I fall off the wagon here, via Ron Radosh, emphasis mine: The truth, as Daniels went on, is that Republicans “alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down time and time again by the President […]

Is The Propaganda Business Flattening?

by Smitty via Althouse Angry over the Obama administration’s siding against SOPA and PIPA, [Former Senator Chris] Dodd says openly that the money the Democratic party regularly counts on Hollywood for might not be there this election cycle. One view is that Hollywood considers that it bought something very specific with it’s money, and it’s […]

Banning Traffic Cameras

by Smitty Insty’s link on Iowa banning traffic cameras leads to a subversive thought serious question: why do we have unmarked police cars? In military terms, the idea of having the authorities pose as civilians is a matter of OPDEC. Going undercover makes sense when, say, infiltrating criminal organizations. Is that an example of overkill, […]

Is There a Real ‘Elizabeth Reichert’?

CHARLESTON, S.C. Last night when we left the Pro-Life Presidential Forum in Greenville, the windshields of most of the cars in the parking lot were festooned with pink flyers attacking Rick Santorum and his wife, Karen. This propaganda was attributed to a self-proclaimed pro-life activist who signed herself “Elizabeth Reichert, Parker, S.C.” As soon as I […]

A Simple Graph To Explain Why Merely Changing The Names On The Doorplates Means, Roughly, Jack

by Smitty This is the Information Age. We’re using technology to streamline enterprises and improve profitability. Except in government. Technology, should, for a quick guess, be a liberating force. The laws, theoretically, ought to need less people to administer over time, no? Ha ha, quite the opposite: that word processer churns out even more laws, […]

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