The Other McCain

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

“Te Atrocity” Of Schools

by Smitty Insty rounds up some more blowback over Paul Krugman, who dropped an upper decker at the NYT yesterday. Insty includes email from an anonymous academic: But there’s also the invention of a “we were all united and then Bush ruined it” idea. This is nonsense. The professional and academic left immediately started with “the […]

ObamaCare, Taxes, And How You Know You’re Getting Rooked

by Smitty (via Volokh) Is it a tax or not a tax. . . shows the need both to revisit first principles and to admit when they have reached their limit. The distinction between taxes as internal to the country, and regulation of commerce is external to the border, is a good one. Note that the tax/regulation distinction […]

Standing By For The Muslim Protest Against The Flight 93 Memorial

by Smitty Power Line catches us up on the ‘curious’ nature of the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA: Rawls, Burnett and others have lodged additional criticisms of the design. They say that the crescent points toward Mecca and is, in fact, a traditional Islamic mihrab. They point out that one of the memorial’s most striking […]

Lakoff: A Seminar In Hooey?

by Smitty Dear George Lakoff, I used to think that Lefties held beliefs. Now I’m not so sure. Can you ground this argument about intimidation and framing in real history, starting with the Founders? Reading your PuffHo post, it sounds as though you may be the heir to Chomsky. You’re making weighty-sounding pronouncements, which arrive […]

Not Even Chesley Sullenberger Could Have Made The Spruce Goose A Success

by Smitty Chesley Sullenberger is as close to immortal as a pilot can get, after his Hudson River heroics. But even that skill could not have made the Spruce Goose a success. Progressivism is the political equivalent of the Spruce Goose, on a variety of levels. However, BHO is no political Sullenberger, despite the prodigious propaganda […]

Things I Am Confident Will Not Occur: A Unionized U.S. Military

by Smitty iOwnTheWorld: Ulsterman: Stop right there. Did you just say that the Obama administration wants to unionize the American military? Wall Street: Oh my – look at you now! That’s got you a bit riled does it? Ulsterman: Are you being serious? Wall Street: Oh yes. Absolutely serious. A bit over a year…perhaps a […]

Krugman Shows Off His Oxymoron

by Smitty (h/t Jazz Shaw) I really can’t comment on this in any family-friendly way.

I’ll Give You Toxic, Rove: I Want Out Of Social Security

by Smitty Understood, Karl, you’re making the point in the context of electoral politics. The calculus is that a third of the country is conservative, another third is wee Socialist sheep, and those cancel. Thus, the election amounts to figuring out who courts the independent third of the country most effectively. The difficulty of this […]

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