The Other McCain

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

Detective Paco On The Border

by Smitty A fine break from whatever you were doing: Psychologists will tell you that people, when faced with a threatening situation, react instinctively: either “fight or flight”. What they overlook is the not inconsiderable number of human beings who are occasionally overwhelmed with a desire to shrink to the size of a dime and […]

Hacking Our Way To Smaller Government

by Smitty Via Insty, MIT’s Technology Review points to a McAfee article about governments getting hacked. The attacks stretch back almost five years, and ranged in duration from one month to 28 months. They affected 32 types of organizations, including government agencies and defense, construction, information technology, and accounting firms. McAfee believes the attacks were […]

Fair-adise Lost, Ezra Klein Edition

by Smitty In the Pagan Progressive Pantheon, Fairness is a minor, throw-away deity to whom random, cost-free appeal can be made. Preston at The PJ Tatler gives us Rick Santelli schooling ueber-knob Ezra Klein: “Moving money around in ways that are unfair,” Ezra? Really? That’s what you’re going with? The left’s focus on “fairness” led […]

Obama: “You Mean The Economy Isn’t Like Batteries, And AA Is Bigger?”

by Smitty Hey, if BHO gets the credit for bin Laden, he gets the blame for the downgrade. Particulary ironic in light of the recent 14th Amendment whining about the validity of U.S. debt. Not the same thing, sure, but a finely related twist. If there is any good news here, it is that the […]

How About Some Love, VodkaPundit?

by Smitty Stephen Green comes close to throwing Virginia under the bus: Virginia is traditionally GOP-friendly, but has been trending purple. Also, there’s been a huge influx of money and power and more money into the Northern VA ‘burbs around DC. That helps the state’s economy (at the expense of the rest of the nation), […]

Balanced Budget Amendment Is A Pyle Of S. . .urprise

by Smitty Insty points to a devastating Bloomberg piece: So the balanced-budget amendment, whatever its political popularity, possesses the following difficulties: It is poorly written and easy to circumvent; it invites judicial control of the appropriations process; and it pretends to know more than we can confidently say we do about how the economy works. […]

Why I’m A Gay Spiderman Fan

by Smitty Once again, I’m not tracking the uproar over the recent Progress made in comic book characters. While the World’s Youngest Blogger isn’t yet into comics, I remember fondly collecting comics for several years. That I may not agree with the direction some comics I used to enjoy are taking seems more an opportunity […]

Obama Birthday Party Games

by Smitty Got to find a way to squeeze a post out of these outbursts of Twitter hash:

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