The Other McCain

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

The ‘Shipping Jobs Overseas’ Smear

When I came home from my recent nine-day road trip, I found this piece of mail on the dining room table: So I picked up the telephone, interviewed Neil Parrott and filed my latest American Spectator column: HAGERSTOWN, Maryland — Neil Parrott admits he was “very surprised” to find himself accused of supporting “tax breaks […]

Jim Moran Is A Global Warming Tool. An ObamaCare Tool. Achieve A Tool-fecta On GZM? Why, Yes; Yes, He Can.

by Smitty St. Albert of Gore himself praised Jim for Moran’s ‘leadership’ on wrecking the economy in the name of Green interests. And I heard Moran bloviate in person about Nancy Pelosi’s colostomy bag of tricks, or, ObamaCare, as it is commonly despised. Is there any doubt but that Jim Moran wouldn’t bend over backwards […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.20.10

TOP NEWS Judge Phillips Denies Stay Of DADT Order Out Gays Now Authorized To Enlist CIA Acknowledges Missteps Leading To Deaths Of Agents On Afghan Base More breakdowns in the intel process O’Donnell Mocked For Pointing Out The Obvious “Separation of church and state” actually isn’t in the Constitution – you’d expect lawyers to know […]

Barney Frank Is Scared, and He Hasn’t Even Seen Ladd Ehlinger’s Next Video

When an incumbent congressman has to lend money to his own campaign, the crisis must be very dire indeed. Allahpundit wonders, “What on earth are his internal polls showing him . . . ?” Hey, when a congressman and his heckler boyfriend fly to the Virgin Islands aboard the private jet of a hedge-fund billionaire in the […]

’13 Days and a Wake-Up’

Charles Lollar held a press conference this afternoon in which he closed by saying that we’ve got “13 days and a wake-up” until Nov. 2. Indeed, the time to Election Day is now perilously short, dear friends. On his way back to Massachusetts, Pete Da Tech Guy stopped in to visit the Fairfax, Va., headquarters […]

Can George Allen Stage A Comeback?

by Smitty The Virginia Conservative highlights a FaceBook group “Republicans Against a George Allen comeback” and floats the question about whether he can be rehabilitated. A couple of points about ol’ George He got royally screwed in 2006 by the single most extreme case of yellow journalism I have ever seen. Three syllables. Six letters. […]

Chapman Updates Chamberlain: ‘Piece In Our Time’

by Smitty (via Anorak) This blog commends Anna’s foreign policy approach over Neville’s. Bombshell redhead, bombshell artillery; Rule 5 has a peace all its own.

Nearly In Defense Of Thomas Friedman

by Smitty (h/t VodkaPundit) Goldberg’s demolition is rather thorough, a gold medal fisking, I daresay, but TF can almost be given credit for randomly approaching somewhere: Friedman is of late very frustrated with America for its failure to do what he says it must. Last September, in one of many columns lamenting that China does […]

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