Unlike Stacy McCain or Bob Belvedere, I am not enough of an insider-politics kind of guy to follow the buzz and make educated guesses. I don’t know who’s going to get picked. So what follows is merely the emanations of feelings in my gut. So let’s look at the kind of guy Mitt Romney is. He’s a business… Read More Romney’s Veep is Going to Be Boring
In 1789, the best available military technology was the musket. It was a cumbersome weapon by today’s standards, and had an involved process to load and fire. However, it was not quite as slow to load as it would appear to modern eyes. A trained soldier, commiting the steps of the process to muscle memory,… Read More Micheal Moore and the Musket Fallacy
Stacy McCain offers up the new attack ad. You can demagoge about corporate fatcats until Demosthenes himself says “Dude, we get it,” and people play right along. But when you ask the question: “So what’s the government going to do that’s any better?” You won’t get an answer that makes any sense. We have an… Read More Romney Concludes That People Dislike The Government More than Bain Capital…
Ripping the newsblogs, and the whole profession of journalism, a new one, with the same joke. My point is that there is nothing wrong with 21st-century journalism except (a) the continued existence of the Columbia Journalism Reviewand (b) the shortage of good, cheap mescaline. And if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. IYKWIMAITYD. Journalists are… Read More Stacy McCain is Funnier Than a Chimp on Phenobarbitols
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears incessant repetition: Kimberlin is not merely a terrorist who uses the law to silence his opponents — he’s a terrorist who uses the law to silence his opponents and is one degree removed from the official Democratic party hierarchy. Which begs the question: who else is under the protective… Read More Why Brett Kimberlin is Important
You should, too. We can pound the keyboards in limp frustration at the hollow-souled priests of Leviathan, or we can put our money where our mouth is. Or as Stacy McCain puts it: Tomorrow is Independence Day. Fight for your freedom.
This is blowing up all over, but Patterico has the key detail: I just got off the phone with Aaron and he and his wife are a little shaken up but OK. The officers had machine guns but did not point them at Aaron. They were quickly able to determine it was a hoax. At… Read More On the Aaron Walker Swatting
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Stacy McCain: We are at the point of the story where, if this was a TV crime drama, the detectives would have the suspects locked in a room, confronting them with the evidence and interrogating them for 14 consecutive hours until they cracked. Is the FBI incompetent? Or — I hesitate to suggest this — has the Justice… Read More For Some Reason, the Obama Justice Department isn’t Interested In SWAT-ing…
Start with Stacy McCain. Texas Congressman Kenny Marchant’s Statement and Letter to Eric Holder. Senator Saxby Chambliss’ Statement and Letter to Eric Holder. ACLJ’s Statement of legal support for Ali Akbar. Ali Akbar’s Statement. And I’m out.
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