The Other McCain

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

The Empty Democratic Party Table

Miss Sophie, a rich, if not prominent, Democratic Party donor, had invited a couple of friends over from Old Europe to celebrate her 90th birthday. Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby, and Admiral von Schneider, failed to attend. North Dakota Representative Earl Pomeroy bailed, too. The old moonbat and her faithful, iron-livered manservant James press on:

Pasadena Reconnaisance Report

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. Just returned with Professor Donald Douglas from the Rose Bowl, where we interviewed fans and checked in at the credentials center, only to be told that we had to come back down here — about an hour drive south — to apply for credentials. Already filed my first report for The American […]

Obama’s ‘Amateur Hour’

Ron Christie’s column in The Hill: President Barack Obama is being ill served by those by those closest around him: Mr. Cool must lose his cool and fire those staff members who have failed their president and failed their nation. . . . Read the whole thing. I think the problem is not so much that […]

Are Vampire Masks Racist? Also: How Bad Does David Brooks Suck?

Of course, I don’t think vampire masks are racist, but expect the Left to make that accusation against Michelle Malkin. Speaking of vampires and other things that suck worse than Avatar, David Brooks’ column yesterday was a backhanded putdown of the Tea Party movement, as Malkin notes. I bought the New York Times yesterday in the San Francisco airport […]

Sad News This Morning

Chris Dodd is expected to announce his forthcoming retirement from the Senate and Dodd’s decision not to seek re-election “could damage the Obama administration’s attempts to enact a meaningful overhaul of U.S. financial markets this year.” Professor Glenn Reynolds must be heartbroken at this unfortunate development. Things just haven’t been the same for Dodd since Ted […]

Fear and Loathing in Orange County

TUSTIN, Calif. Chris Cassone was wearing a Ronald Reagan T-shirt when I spotted him at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. United Express Flight 6396 touched down Tuesday shortly before 2 p.m., Pacific Time. Sunny skies, palm trees, 75 degrees — yeah, the working conditions here are grueling. A veteran musician who performed at the 9/12 […]

Andrew, You Are Forgiven

by Smitty How can anyone muster anything but forgiveness for Sullivan at the sight of this? (Emphasis mine throughout.) Charles Johnson explains his concerns here. He’s particularly right about the kind of proto-fascist love of violence against “the other” that you see pulsating in the writing of, say, Michael Goldfarb or Robert Stacy McCain.

18 Years and Fewer Hairs Later

A. C. Kleinheider notes the danger of education not following enthusiasm:

Those caught up in tea party hysteria are the kind of voters Ross Perot captured in 1992. Two years later, without Perot, these foaming, vaguely culturally conservative, middle-income voters went Republican.

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