The Other McCain

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

Holy Crap! The American Spectator Offers Gift Subscriptions for Just $29

Well, no wonder I always have such a hassle trying to get Al Regnery to pay my travel expenses! Give the gift that keeps giving throughout the year. That, of course, would be THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR. As a subscriber, you already know the value and enjoyment that only THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR offers. Now you can […]

Is Ron Paul Daft?

by Smitty David Harsanyi seems to think so, emphasis mine: “Congressman Paul is committed to bringing the conservative movement back to its traditional platform of limited government, balanced budgets and a foreign policy of nonintervention,” claims Jesse Benton, Paul’s spokesman. If only it stopped there. Paul isn’t a traditional conservative. His obsession with long-decided monetary […]

Arizona’s New Motto: The Birther State

Remember last week when John McCain attacked J.D. Hayworth with an ad accusing Hayworth of being a birther? That may actually help Hayworth in the GOP primary, as Paul Craft explains: McCain has vocally opposed the birther movement since his 2008 presidential bid. His renewed criticism of the movement may endear McCain to Arizona moderates […]

Health Care Summit Review: ‘I Laughed,
I Cried, It Was Better Than Cats!’

Rave reviews for Republicans all around, but Allahpundit highlights David Gergen’s review on CNN: “The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that […]

Wrangling Justice For Rangel

by Smitty Gateway Pundit links the NYT article on Rangel’s conviction for finding unprecedented ways and unethical means to get his flesh down to the Caribbean. About the only bigger argument in favor of term limits in the Congress is the Wicked Witch of the West herself. Nancy, though, hasn’t had the privilege of making […]

Tonight I Was Chatting With My Daughter

I’ve been neglecting Facebook lately — Twitter is my new cool thing — but I logged on to see the uproar I’d caused at Lisa Graas’s Facebook page. (Long story.) Anyway, so my 20-year-old daughter Kennedy pops up on Facebook chat to tell me that she heard the Montgomery Gentry song “One in Every Crowd” […]

Weekend At Bernie’s Wasn’t The First Allusion To Come To Mind For Today’s Circus

by Smitty Glenn McCoy has fun with it: And then there was a related Tim Burton take-off, via Digg. The most shocking bit came from visiting my magic URL, http://www.AllYourNewsAreOnCrack.com for a fortnight into the future, I see an odd article: Unprecedented Move: President Obama Accepts Own Healthcare Bill In Signing Statement by Sissypuss, the […]

Eeeewwww! President Obama Picked His Nose During Health Care Summit

Let’s face it: Today’s health-care summit was an unmitigated disaster for Obama even before cameras captured this unfortunate moment with the Booger-Eater-in-Chief. Yuval Levin at National Review: The Democrats may have thought that simply putting the spotlight on Republicans when the subject is health care would make the GOP look bad. But Republicans so far […]

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