The Other McCain

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

Individual Compassion: Federal Task?

by Smitty I’m concerned that Lowry at The National Review may be missing the larger point. His article’s point, that we should expect some bizzare pivot on the part of the media to long for the days of Bush43, is a good one, as far as it goes. The Chris Matthews of the world are […]

Freeberg Nears A Breakthrough

by Smitty M. K. Freeberg is one of the deeper thinkers in the blogosphere. Here he is dealing with some organizational behavior issues. RTWT, but let me focus early on. Yesterday was the first 20% of a work week. I clocked out on time, and returned home in the daylight to attend to the personal […]

Cut, Cap, And Balance

by Smitty My own thoughts on fixing the fiscal mess are probably too radical for reality. The Cut, Cap, and Balance pledge looks like a place to begin. Also important: trust building activities. Given that the government, as a whole, has completely expended all confidence in its veracity, the idea of a “Balanced Budget Amendment” […]

Too Ugly for BeautifulPeople.com

That’s got to hurt: An exclusive online meeting place billed as a dating website for “beautiful men and women” was causing new outrage Monday after dumping 30,000 members deemed too ugly. . . . Such is the level of fury, the site’s operators have set up a counseling helpline to ease the pain of rejection. […]

Not ‘Hostilities,’ Just ‘Imminent Danger’

What U.S. forces are doing in Libya is not “hostilities,” the White House said last week — because “hostilities” is the key word in the War Powers Act, which the White House insists doesn’t apply to Libya. NATO bombs are killing civilians, but it’s not “hostilities.” However, the Pentagon is giving “imminent danger” pay to […]

‘Why Eric Holder Must Go’

Retired FBI Agent Rick Hahn and Accuracy in Media director Cliff Kincaid will speak next Tuesday, June 28, at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Kincaid will “examine Communist Cuba’s sponsorship of anti-American terrorism and harboring of fugitives from justice and the need to keep Cuba on the official U.S. […]

Boeing and the Myth of ‘Skills’

Back during the 1990s, I got tired of hearing a line that Bill Clinton relentlessly repeated about the need to “invest” in education to provide “the skills needed to compete in the 21st-century economy.” As nice as that rhetoric sounds, it didn’t match the economic reality: Major manufacturers weren’t opening new factories in Latin America […]

Up Late With Anna Maria Alberghetti

Insomnia struck last night. It was one of those rare nights when I’d gone to bed early, before my wife did, and when Mrs. Other McCain came to bed, she woke me up by trying to pry the TV remote out of my hand. So then I was awake, and although I drifted off a […]

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