The Other McCain

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

‘All Caveats’

Back in the early ’80s when I was doing rock ‘n’ roll, you’d hand somebody a demo tape and automatically include apologies for the crappy quality — the tape hiss, the fact you didn’t have time to get the vocals just the way you wanted them, etc. A buddy of mine would interrupt this obligatory […]

When It Rains, It Pours for RNC

Fresh off a double dose of bad headlines Monday, now the Republican National Committee gets another resignation: NH RNC member Sean Mahoney resigned his post today, taking aim at chairman Michael Steele in a strongly-worded protest letter over the committee’s profligate spending. “Not only has the out-of-touch, free-spending culture of Washington come to completely dominate […]

VIDEO: New Marco Rubio Ad; PLUS: Rudy Giuliani vs. Arianna Huffington

On the heels of Marco’s endorsement by Rudy Giuliani — Sorry Charlie made the always-dangerous mistake of double-crossing an Italian — the Rubio campaign rolls out this warm, positive ad: FLORIDA SENATE: Key Race Roundup By the way, on “Morning Joe” today, Arianna Huffington and Giuliani had an interesting go-round: Why is Arianna defending Charlie Crist? I don’t know, but […]

VIDEO: Wayne Allyn Root at Searchlight

The 2008 Libertarian vice-presidential candidate spoke at the March 27 Tea Party rally: Much bigger crowd than Hopeless Harry Reid’s gonna see this week.

Nevada Voters to Hopeless Harry Reid: ‘We’re Just Not That Into You’

Let’s see, 62% of Nevada voters oppose ObamaCare, and Harry Reid couldn’t get 50% in a poll match-up with Charles Manson, so obviously it’s time for Harry to make fun of Sarah Palin and launch a sparsely-attended bus tour of the state: “You can’t escape who you are. My roots are here and no one can take […]

Kathy Shaidle and ‘Casual Bigotry’

Conor Friedersdorf wants Mark Steyn to “repudiate” Canada’s answer to the Tasmanian Devil after Steyn linked a post in which Kathy wrote: [T]he nation’s ethnic makeup is different now, for one thing. Way more residents/invaders/settlers from “manyana” cultures. More illiterates, more people with no sense of history. Is this untrue? Does the U.S. not, indeed, have more illiterates in 2010 than […]

Bedtime Viewing

by Smitty Some of our readers appreciate the crunchy stuff, so here is a bit of absurdity via Kottke: If you’re feeling more classical than jazzy, you can go for Apocalyptica: And if you’re feeling more crunchy and absurdist, Beatallica blends ‘Enter Sandman’ with ‘Taxman’ to demented effect:

Word Association With Joe The Plumber Goes Unwell For John McCain @3:40

by Smitty Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher looks tanned and much-improved in this clip, no doubt from having spoken at enough Tea Parties. A few soundbites: “If this was a Republican movement, I wouldn’t be here.” “Democrats are great people.” “The GOP looks at [the Tea Parties] as a tool.” “I just put my name on […]

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