The Other McCain

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

Steele to Step Aside at RNC
UPDATE: New Report Says Steele Will Seek Another Term as RNC Chair

UPDATE 5:38 p.m.: Guess somebody guessed wrong: Controversial Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who last month presided over the GOP’s biggest electoral gains since 1938, will announce tonight that he is running for re-election, Fox News has learned from two RNC members. Ending weeks of rumors that he would not seek a second term, […]

Federal District Judge in Virginia Strikes Down Part of ObamaCare

Perhaps the first step toward repeal: A federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a key provision of the nation’s sweeping health-care overhaul is unconstitutional, the most significant legal setback so far for President Obama’s signature domestic initiative. U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson found that Congress could not order individuals to buy health […]

Maria Cino Unacceptable at RNC

After the news today that Michael Steele will step aside as RNC chairman, a friend called to warn me about Maria Cino, the GOP Establishment’s choice to replace Steele. My friend says Cino has ties to pro-abortion groups. Dan Riehl has documented Cino’s other problems: Her lobbying for Obamacare on behalf of Pfizer and a […]

Brittany Smith Found Alive, Police Say Jeffrey Scott Easley ‘Very Good Suspect’ in Death of 12-Year Old Girl’s Mother

Let’s begin at the beginning: She was 41. He was 32. They flirted over the Internet. He sent online kisses and declared her “hot.” She thanked him for his patience with her. Jeff Easley moved into Tina Smith’s house . . . a few months ago, a neighbor said. Their love story dissolved [Dec. 6] […]

Big Ugly Deal Faces Senate Vote

Generally speaking, “widespread support” is D.C. code for “loaded up with enough pork and welfare giveaways that a majority will hold their noses and vote for it.” Which is the basic story of the tax compromise: Senators get their first chance Monday to vote on the tax-cut deal struck by President Barack Obama and Republicans […]

The ‘Ick Factor’

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of […]

Espionage or Journalism?

“There’s a huge difference between an individual or an organization reporting abuses in government or business one at a time and the same people stealing enough classified material to run a spy agency. But sleazy Julian Assange and his spy agency WikiLeaks are trying to pretend they are journalists. He even calls himself ‘editor-in-chief,’ sort […]

Math Problem: If the Atlantic Monthly Makes a Profit of $1.8 Million a Year . . .

. . . and Andrew Sullivan “account[s] for more than a quarter of the site’s unique visitors and close to half its visits,” then isn’t Sully the most important member of the Atlantic Monthly‘s staff? A lot more important than the “cadre of young writers [who] began filling the newsroom’s cubicles” after they moved to D.C.? […]

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