The Other McCain

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

Actually, Sprinklerman Has A Straighforward Play

by Smitty Morrissey makes it sound as though the Speaker of the House was ‘a young apprentice / caught between the Scylla and Charybdis’ when it comes to the debt ceiling: Of course, most voters don’t want the debt-ceiling limit raised, either. That gives Boehner a lot more political leverage than he normally would have, […]

Rhetorical Question Day at The Corner

by Smitty Steven Hayward and Jonah Golberg have questions, and I have answers. Hayward quotes Kinsley, emphasis mine: If the deficit doesn’t matter, why have any taxes at all? And if there is some point at which the deficit does start to matter, and become dangerous, when is that point if $1.6 trillion isn’t it? […]

‘The Return to TV of One of America’s Most Gifted Thinkers and Communicators’

Which is to say, a new cable show for Keith Olbermann: Keith Olbermann’s new show on Al Gore’s Current TV will have the same name as his old one on MSNBC — Countdown With Keith Olbermann. It will also air in Olbermann’s old 8 PM slot beginning June 20, 2011. Olbermann abruptly left MSNBC in […]

To Hell With ‘Gender Equity’

That’s my reaction to a New York Times story about how universities are faking their way around Title IX, which mandates an artificial “equality” between men and women’s sports programs. Americans have for too long been tortured on the Procrustean bed of “equality,” which aims to destroy all custom and tradition — indeed, to destroy liberty itself […]

And Yet, Instapundit . . .

by Smitty Insty links Pilon at Cato on the Barbour exit, and finishes with a rumination: . . .when you have a system of government so demanding at top levels that few normal people care to participate in it, you will get few normal people at the top levels. Two points: When normal people, e.g. […]

Carl Salonen & the Left-Wing Trolls Who Smeared ‘Advice Goddess’ Amy Alkon

Yesterday I blogged about Amy Alkon’s encounter with the online Left which, taking offense at something Alkon had written about unwed motherhood, organized one of its characteristic “Two-Minute Hate” campaigns against her. What I did not know was that the Left attempted to destroy Alkon’s career as a journalist, by posting defamatory fallacious Amazon “reviews” of […]

‘When You Give in to Thuggery’

The situation with King & Spalding dropping its client — Congress — in defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before Supreme Court was not something I felt co?mpelled to write about yesterday. But it is pointed out that King & Spalding dropped the case under pressure from gay activists, which means that there will […]

‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin’

Obama sees the writing on the wall (click to enlarge): Photoshop by Aaron — based on Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt — and if you don’t get the Bible reference, it’s from Daniel 5: “Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.”

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