The Other McCain

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

Mark Levin vs. Glenn Beck (And Some Other CPAC-Related Musings)

My 17-year-old son Bob was driving home Monday evening after we’d picked up his twin brother James from work and we were listening to the Mark Levin’s opening monologue on 1490 AM here in Hagerstown when I said, “Uh-oh, he’s going after Glenn Beck.” I grabbed pen and a piece of paper and jotted down […]

Funny, My Wife Says the Same Thing

“At which point I ran into Robert Stacy McCain and saw my entire evening turned upside down.” — Adam Brickley, Race for 2012

VIDEO: CPAC Panel on ‘Saving Freedom from Fascism’

My friend (and sometimes antagonist) Quin Hillyer chaired this panel featuring Jonah Goldberg, Amity Schlaes and Herb London: People who know me as the CPAC Schmooze King — as William Upton of The American Conservative observes, I have a knack for being everywhere at CPAC — often ask me, “Stacy, why have you never been asked […]

Another Reason to Support Rick Barber

As if an endorsement from Pamela Geller wasn’t enough, did you know that Rick’s GOP primary opponent voted for a 500% increase in cigarette taxes? An intense debate over how to spend the money erupted Thursday after the Montgomery City Council voted to raise the cigarette tax from 2 cents to 12 cents a pack. The […]

Mike Huckabee, Sore Loser

He got 4% in the CPAC straw poll — which was won by Ron Paul — and suddenly decides that a gathering of 10,000 conservative activists is a bad thing: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement. . . . […]

TMI Twitter from Kim Kardashian

She was already in trouble for outing a federal air marshal on Twitter, now there is this bit of alarming indiscretion: “I pretty much laser my whole body … I’m like a little hairless Chihuahua.” This particular cosmetic trend — I’ve dubbed it the Deforestation of the Pubic Delta — is really a byproduct of the […]

Let’s Party Like It’s 1994!

From my latest American Spectator column: Reagan Palooza 2010 kept cranking into the wee hours of Sunday morning on Capitol Hill. Young right-wingers were jammed onto the upstairs dance floor of the Hawk ‘n’ Dove where they partied past midnight after the final day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The fire-code capacity crowd […]

Big Journalism: Mattera Responds

by Smitty Jason Mattera rebuts Kate Zernike of the New York Times for her cretinous review of his CPAC speech. This blog celebrates Mattera and looks forward to further outbursts of Breitbartism from the man.

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