The Other McCain

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

URGENT: Florida Threatened By Digusting Toxic Brown Slime

No, not the BP oil spill. I’m talking about Charlie Crist: Charlie Crist (I) . . . . . 37% Marco Rubio (R) . . . . 37% Kendrick Meek (D) . . 15% That corrupt perma-tanned two-faced backstabber has pulled even, and Rasmusen Reports finds that a majority of those senile geezers in the Sunshine State have […]

Glenn Beck Goes Hayekian

When I laid down to go to bed in the wee hours this morning, I flipped on Fox News and caught the re-run of Glenn Beck. He was talking about Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, and The Other Glenn informs us that the book is now No. 1 at Amazon. It’s unfortunate, really, that […]

Primary Lessons: Don’t Bet Your Hopes

Carle Hulse of New York Times conveys the politics of wishful thinking from inside the Democratic bubble: On a primary election night when the heralded anti-incumbency sentiment was expected to again demonstrate its strength, Senator Blanche Lincoln proved there were clear limits to its power. Virtually written off as a likely victim of voter outrage […]

VIDEO: Smash Hit on Route 22

 Chris Cassone rocks “Route 22” for New Yorkers all the way from the Bronx up to where they speak Français: This Saturday night — June 12 — Chris will rock O’Malley’s (30 E. Main St., Mt. Kisco, NY) with the fabulous Street Kid Band.

PRIMARY ELECTION NIGHT HQ UPDATE: Lincoln Defeats Halter in Arkansas Senate Democratic Runoff UPDATE: Nikki Haley Tops SC GOP Primary With 49%; Runoff vs. Barrett UPDATE: Angle Wins NV-Sen GOP UPDATE: Whitman, Fiorina Win California GOP Gov., Sen. Primaries UPDATE: Graves Wins GA-9 Runoff

12:56 a.m. ET Wednesday: Congratulations are in order for Nevada Tea Party people: Republicans nominated former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle as their candidate to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Angle, the favorite of tea party activists, was endorsed by the Tea Party Express. She dispatched her two main rivals, and the Associated […]

Buckleyesque
Notes on a Rhetorical Method

“Philip’s perspective typifies the tautological nature of intellectual consensus . . .” — God and Man at The American Spectator While I was proofreading that little essay just now, Mrs. Other McCain asked me, “What are you grinning at?” She knows me too well, and recognized the mischievous smile of a man who is up to […]

Mistress, Actress, Heroine

by Smitty (via Insty) Amidst an excellent review of Nikki Haley’s campaign to govern South Carolina, Walter Shapiro says, emphasis mine: Haley, in her first statewide campaign, has proven a master of boomerang politics – making every attack seem like a vindication of her conservative populist outrage. Shouldn’t that be “a mistress”? I don’t mean […]

Marvin Isley, R.I.P.

He shall bring da funk no more. Bass player for the fabulous Isley Brothers, dead of diabetes, age 56.

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