The Other McCain

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

CPAC Day 1: Birthers and Other Jokes

OK, a Republican congressman from Idaho, a native of Puerto Rico, jokes that he has proof of his American citizenship: That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are. Also funny: Ann Coulter’s latest column about the GOProud controversy. Not funny at all: A GOProud official calling Cleta Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation a “nasty […]

Best VA Political Week Of The Year

by Smitty I know CPAC is at full roar, while I sit out in the cold, where I can catch enough bandwidth for a post. What a week in VA news. Cuccinelli tilting the SCOTUS windmill-style for the ObamaCare case. VMI looking really creepy over Islam. And then ol’ “Born Fightin’” Webb decides that fighting […]

CPAC Day 1: Nap-Time News

Between last night’s late deadline and getting up at 7:30 a.m. today, I’m kinda shagged and will need to rest before this evening, for reasons best explained by this New York Times article: The Conservative Political Action Conference opened Thursday morning with an address by Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who accused President Obama of […]

CPAC Day 1: Murderer’s Row

That was the scene this morning in the Blogger’s Lounge at CPAC, and some of you may recognize Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit and Jeff Dunetz of Yid With Lid among the bloggers coping with the reportedly substandard WiFi connection. I’m blogging from Ladd Ehlinger‘s hotel room, where the WiFi’s just fine, thank you. This […]

CPAC Day 1: Deadline in the Lobby Bar

Greetings from the fabulous Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, scene of the awesomest CPAC evah! The photo above was taken last night in the lobby bar, where I filed my column for today’s American Spectator: WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 10,000 activists will convene here today at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel for the biggest gathering […]

My Favorite Line by Shakespeare

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 OK, maybe not all the lawyers. My son-in-law will be attending law school this fall and hasn’t done anything to deserve killing. Yet. Also, my son-in-law is a Christian, and thus remembers my […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.10.11

TOP NEWS One And Done: Jim Webb (D-Va.) Won’t Run For Reelection in 2012 Life just got even harder for the Democrats’ Senate caucus; Dems’ bench in Virginia none too deep Obama’s Mixed Messages On Mubarak Advisors split on when and how Egyptian president should go American Jihadi Trained In Pakistan Pleads Guilty To Terror […]

Rep. Chris Lee (R-Stupid) Quickly Becomes Former Congressman

The illusion of online anonymity strikes again: Rep. Christopher Lee is a married Republican congressman serving the 26th District of New York. But when he trolls Craigslist’s “Women Seeking Men” forum, he’s Christopher Lee, “divorced” “lobbyist” and “fit fun classy guy.” . . . On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman […]

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