The Other McCain

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

Christiane Amanpour and ABC News Bring Healing to Tucson … Uh, Wait …

Warner Todd Huston at Publius Pundit recounts how the media’s “Kumbayah” moment worked out: One would think that once you were the collateral damage of an assassination attempt, you’d be much less apt to be issuing death threats of your own to people. Sadly, shooting victim J. Eric Fuller was not so sensitive as one […]

Tucson, Zeitgeist and Madness: The Obsolete Politics of Jared Loughner UPDATE: Another E-Mail From a Zeitgeist Follower; Movement Leader Issues ‘Message to Members’

In the comments of a previous post, the blogger at 24Ahead.com elbowed me as a “Tea Party enabler” — an epithet that he would also apparently apply to Glenn Reynolds — and I think it’s time to clarify a few points about why I’ve spent the past four days digging into the Zeitgeist angle on the […]

Herman Cain: ‘A Good Solid Conservative Who Can Get the Base Excited’

The Wall Street Journal certainly has excellent sources: The lack of a clear 2012 Republican presidential front-runner is prompting lesser-known figures to consider joining the race. Instead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, some conservative groups are looking for fresh faces and asking: Why not Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan […]

Obligatory: Video in Which Tucson Killer Jabbers About ‘Illegal Wars’ Like Your Average DKos Diarist or Cindy Sheehan

UPDATE: Someone has finally re-uploaded the video to YouTube: PREVIOUSLY: It was taken down by YouTube, but those greedy bastards at the Los Angeles Times got it through an open-records request and “embed disabled” it so you have to go to their Web site to see it. However, unlike Jared Lee Loughner, I’m cool with the whole capitalist greed […]

Don’t Tell My Wife

“Honey, I’ve got to go cover another Tea Party rally,” I tell her, and she thinks it’s all about politics — lower taxes, limited government, stuff like that — but now Frances Fox Pivens has decided she’s a Tea Party expert and lets the cat out of the bag: Ed Driscoll reminds us that everything […]

An Important Anniversary

On this day a year ago, I arrived in Boston to cover the Scott Brown campaign. I’d taken a train from D.C. — leaving at 3 a.m. — and arrived at 11 a.m. in downtown Boston where I was picked up by Pete Da Tech Guy, whom I’d never met before. The tales of what ensued over […]

Priebus Elected RNC Chair on 7th Ballot

UPDATE XV: On the seventh ballot, Wisconsin GOP chairman Reince Priebus got 97 votes and was thereby elected the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. Tough fight. Congratulations to the winner. Hopefully he won’t seek vengeance against his opponents. They say those Cheeseheads can be heinously vindictive. Just ask Troglopundit. UPDATE XVI: The final […]

‘Tea Party Envy’ and the Academic Elite

“We’ve long seen how tea party envy has been a common theme for the Obama era . . . and in [Harvard University history professor Jill] Lepore’s interview we see the lament that academic elites have failed to tap the tea party’s populist vibrancy. And so, when people and movements find themselves failing to be […]

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