The Other McCain

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

Real Suicides of Beverly Hills

Russell Armstrong, whose wife Taylor was a star of the Bravo network reality show Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, apparently committed suicide Monday, reportedly hanging himself in the bedroom of his lavish home on Mulholland Drive. He was 47 years old. Armstrong’s wife filed for divorce last month, accusing him of abuse. The Associated Press did […]

The Wrongness of Krugman

Kevin Williamson disassembles the Nobel Prize-winning Keynesian: Paul Krugman continues his campaign to discredit the economic success of Texas, and, as usual, he is none too particular about the facts . . . A booming population leads to growth in jobs. But there is another half to that equation: A booming economy, and the jobs […]

Daily Pundit, I Think You Answered Your Own Question

by Smitty Quick is asking: Tell me what sort of electronics you own that you would pay $200 an hour to have repaired, rather than junking it and buying new? Precisely. No one wants to deal with the expense of these modern, highly integrated electronics. The manufacturing runs are so tiny that getting a repair […]

Harry Reid Blows Past Merely Insulting, Explores New Territory Somewhere Very Close To Laughable

by Smitty via Drudge His Fecklessness strikes: Democrats were tossed from office in record numbers last November. That groundswell is shaping the 2012 campaign. But Reid doesn’t expect it to last. “The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy,” he said. “I’ve said that many times, and I believe that.” “That (the Tea […]

Not Sure I Agree With Melissa Clouthier

by Smitty It doesn’t appear that the Black Sox scandal destroyed baseball; I don’t see how a generation of commie swine disguised as the media can destroy investigative reporting. In an America with a re-vitalized media, do you really want to be the candidate that says “You can’t ask about my transcripts; I’m invoking the […]

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran Is So Cool, He Made Klavan On The Culture

by Smitty (h/t Da Tech Guy) This blog is proud to announce that one of its favorited scratching posts has achieved the rare feat of mention in Klavan On The Culture. Top that, anyone in Barney Frank’s district! Previous/More Antics: Going-In Position: The Opposite Of Jim Moran’s Ideas Are Good Ones Jim Moran: Clownish Buffoon, […]

A Question, Now That ObamaCare Lost Another Appeal

by Smitty HotAir, and the rest of the blogosphere, has the story of the 11th Circuit delivering yet another finely shaded variation on the theme of “no matter how you slice it, ObamaCare comes up ‘turd’”. Jazz Shaw notes via Politico: Team Obama says they are “confident” that they will still prevail. They now have […]

Oh, So, Like A Service Academy, Then?

by Smitty Via Insty: “Whether your own college experience was more like The Paper Chase or Animal House, you can be sure that today’s campuses are neither. Instead, your tuition and tax dollars are funding an ever-growing army of bureaucrats that police everything from free speech to dating. Administrators now outnumber faculty on our nation’s […]

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