The Other McCain

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

It’s Time Everyone Keep Their Naughty Bits Under Control

by Smitty This blog was relieved to hear that Girl On The Right’s cleavage is of the ‘First, do no harm’ variety. In fact, I like to think they improve any environment I happen to be in. Well, there you have it. Uplifting freshness for all. GOTR is responding to the The Carbon Trust Footprinting […]

Conservatives: Relax About Boehner

by Smitty I’m totally with Red State on this one. No, they shouldn’t. I think John Boehner is more conservative than Eric Cantor, who’d most likely replace him, but Boehner’s leadership has been crap lately. This deal that got us $38.5 billion in cuts, turns out to not only have gotten us $14 billion in […]

Sweet, Sweet Quantitative Easing

by Smitty There is something special about nihilistic joy. You spot doom on the horizon. You track it. Doom comes in, at constant bearing and decreasing range, despite every possible maneuver to avoid it. And the doom is so huge as to cause the people in charge to loop in stage one of the Kübler-Ross […]

Icelanders, For Some Reason, Not Interested In Getting Bent Over

by Smitty Icelandic banks like Icesave were wrecked in the 2008 economic fracas. The Dutch and the Brits had dropped $5 billion into Icesave, which also died. So the British and Dutch governments bailed out their citizens, and then tried to get the government of Iceland to cut a deal with the governments to repay […]

Oh, Those Dirty Corporations

by Smitty Judicial Watch notes that the Chicago based corporation called ACORN is on the carpet again: Facing more than a dozen felony charges in Nevada, ACORN pleaded guilty to one count this week for illegally paying canvassers to register voters during the 2008 presidential campaign. The deal means that ACORN will avoid going to […]

I’m In Favor Of A Constitutional Convention, In A Few Years

by Smitty (via Insty) The talk of a Convention is tempting. We had 126 years prior to Woodrow Wilson, who set us on course to become the Progressive State of America in 1913. Completely unfair to credit him with so many of the misdeeds, foreign and domestic, that occurred in the last century, and culminated […]

Inventory The Pitchforks And Torches, And Stand By, Patriots

by Smitty The Blaze quotes Andy Stern as saying, in the context of the Constitutional layers of power, where authority is delegated to the federal government: Now, however, in the midst of the transformative change of globalization and this third economic revolution, those layers have become an impediment to making the changes necessary to keep […]

Wound + Salt = ‘Hey, Liberals, How Are You Liking That Wisconsin Result?’

Yesterday afternoon, when it looked like liberal Joanne Kloppenburg had narrowly defeated Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, I was in abject misery. Now? Baby, I feel fine! In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold released new vote totals adding a net total of 7,582 new votes in the tight state […]

« go back — keep looking »