The Other McCain

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

Solyndra: Feel The Brutality

by Smitty Amid the sending up of the idiot Lefty ‘Day of Rage’ noise, Dana Loesch drops this little YouTube grenade: “Now, that’s the SOLYNRDRA advantage: clever acronyms. And child labor.”

Political Correctness Fail: Firshein And Manland

by Smitty Manland doesn’t have any design flaws, to my eye, (emphasis mine): An Ikea store in Sydney, Australia, has either set retail shopping forward by three decades or set gender equality back by three decades—you decide: they’re testing out Manland, which is, as one local newscaster describes it, “basically a creche for husbands and […]

Has Walter Russell Mead Figured A Way Around The Iron Law?

by Smitty Maybe he’s explained a way around Pournelle somewhere. I should like to see such an explanation in the context of this: Ultimately we must either ration health care (death panels and all) or restructure it top to bottom so that it is able to deliver the same or, preferably, much higher levels of […]

Ruth Marcus, That Is Some Highly Ignorant Noise You’re Emitting

by Smitty Daily Pundit saw it, and zeroed in on the same section I did, but let me slice it differently, emphasis mine: It is, at bottom, an argument against the 20th century — specifically against the notion that the Constitution envisions and empowers a muscular federal government able to ensure that its citizens have […]

In Search Of, You Know, A More Peaceful Kind Of Peace

by Smitty (h/t Jihad Watch) In the Jerusalem Post: CAIRO – Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said a peace deal with Israel was not “sacred” and could be changed for the benefit of peace or the region. His comments, made in an interview with a Turkish television channel and broadcast on state television, were the […]

AttackWatch: Cynthia McKinney Calls BHO A War Criminal

by Smitty (via PJ) Dear old Cynthia, “Our president is committing war crimes,” McKinney, an unapologetic supporter of departed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, told the crowd. “What does that make him? A war criminal.” At another point in her speech, she has this to say about Obama: “If you’re the recipient of the Nobel Peace […]

Could You ‘Never Forget’ Folks Choose Not To Remember Until, Say, Feb 2013?

by Smitty Drudge’s headline puts the question front and center:But is this phenomenon just Jewish? Is there any constiuency that still thinks the dampness on their back is rain? Without drawing any line connecting the dots between this century and the last, one wonders to what degree the leadership of other communities, as a sin […]

AttackWatch: HR2911 Thugs The Title ‘American Jobs Act’

by Smitty Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, in a nearly IowaHawkean bout of tee-hee-hee, President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation. See, if you were […]

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