The Other McCain

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

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‘The Undefeated’ For Me

by Smitty Based upon Dan Riehl’s review, The Undefeated may be bigger than the fattest documentary maker in Hollywood, which is to say: huge. As a personal favor, if you could all just go pack the theaters, and keep this flick showing until late July, when I get home on R&R, I would appreciate it.

Quantitative Easing Is Not Default!

by Smitty (h/t World’s Only Rational Man) I am nearly tempted to defend the Federal Reserve in the strongest terms. If I felt any more strongly that making money appear by piles of half a trillion was not theft, I would lay down a firm argument. Clearly, ‘Quantitative Easing’ has six syllables; ‘default’, a mere […]

Arne Duncan: What?

by Smitty (via BlogProf) The BlogProf has video of the Secretary of Education saying “My Commitment To LGBT Students Is Unequivocal”. Really: Why does you commitment to ANY student, as an educator, require mention? What does sexuality have to do with education? Yet another creepshow aspect of this administration. I shall ensure that my offspring […]

McCarthy On The War Powers Act

by Smitty Read this NRO post by Andrew McCarthy on the War Powers Act. Truly interesting Constitutional thinking. What makes the WPA constitutionally problematic, though, is mostly its legislative veto provision, which purports to enable Congress to direct the president to withdraw forces by a joint resolution. (See this 2004 CRS analysis, here.) Joint resolutions […]

Military Pay Overhaul

by Smitty Angley at Big Peace links an Air Force times article about overhauling military pay. This writer is both a fiscal conservative and a military retiree, so I am torn over the issue, but this article is not about advocating for anything. Instead, I will make a prediction. Military members will accept whatever retirement […]

Legitimacy

by Smitty I would argue that the effect of the imperial Federal government over the last century has been to de-legitimize itself: The CBO calls this approach “fair-value” accounting because it treats the federal government’s actions just like the actions of any other market participant, taking into account the market risk of guaranteeing a mortgage. […]

Do You Sometimes Find Yourself Wishing That You Could Arrive At Some Wholly New Form Of Depravity?

by Smitty (h/t Vanderleun) Truly, I wish that sexuality could remain private. Certainly not a federal political matter. But since the month of June has to find itself turned into a public celebration of something that, in my opinion, has no business being public (hetero or otherwise), the thought of having a month devoted to […]

Smitty’s Verdict: I Blame The National Security Act Of 1947

by Smitty (via Insty) Props to SECDEF Gates. He has done an outstanding job. But I don’t think his analysis went far enough. Gates spoke of “institutional obstacles in the Pentagon — cultural, procedural, ideological — to getting done what needed to get done” and the need for “fundamentally reshaping the priorities of the Pentagon.” […]

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