The Other McCain

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RICK PERRY IN FREEFALL?

Three headlines after last night’s debate: Perry is blowing it — Philip Klein, Washington Examiner Orlando GOP debate: A strong night for Santorum as Perry fades — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Rick Perry Blindsided Again In Debate On Immigration, Rick Santorum Has Big Night — Sam Stein and Jon Ward, Huffington Post Now, those are […]

Is It All About The Frogskins, Thad?

by Smitty Egad, Thad. First by T-Paw, now you: had. I don’t know the price on that endorsement, but I hope it was good. So, the Ruling Class is promoting Romney as their RINO tool of choice. We can rename ObamaCare, call it RomneyCare, and that will make it all more gooder. Or is it […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.23.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS The Governor Strikes Back Perry fends off criticism of his stands on immigration, Social Security Worried About That Hunk Of Space Junk? There’s An App For That Android app monitors location of orbiting satellites US Escalates Accusations Of ISI Ties To Terrorists JCS Chairman Mullen accuses Pakistan’s government of […]

ORLANDO DEBATE: Open Thread UPDATE: ‘You Don’t Have a Heart’

Nine Republican candidates will be debating in Orlando, Florida (Fox News , 9 p.m.) tonight and, rather than live-blogging, I’ll be aggregating and occasionally updating. Karl Rove has “handicapped” the debate. Thad McCotter is dropping out of the GOP race, after being repeatedly excluded from the debates. UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: After the first commercial break, […]

Unlike ‘Tawdry Gossip’ About Sarah Palin

. . . rumors that Levi Johnston’s sister is the kind of floozy who poses naked for Playboy magazine have been confirmed and documented: There have been rumors around Wasilla that Mercede was one of the sources for Joe McGinniss’s book. It was reported in June 2010 that Mercede’s anti-Palin blog (now defunct) was created by […]

SHOCKER: Joe McGinniss’s Credibility Destroyed by E-Mail to Jesse Griffin; UPDATE: Griffin Does Not Deny E-Mail

“Jesse Griffin, the Alaska blogger who Saturday claimed in an ‘exclusive’ report that Todd and Sarah Palin were divorcing, will no longer work as an Anchorage kindergarten teaching assistant, school officials confirmed Wednesday. “Griffin’s resignation followed revelations that the 49-year-old Griffin had posted (under the alias ‘Gryphen’) sexually explicit advocacy of pornography and masturbation on […]

Keep Plunging the Stake Into the Heart of the Social Security Vampire, McCarthy

by Smitty The Great Tea Party Awakening continues apace, thanks to this sort of truth telling: As a great admirer of your work, I’m very surprised by your claim that Social Security’s designers and perpetuators have not attempted to perpetrate a fraud. The program was hatched in fraud. As I pointed out yesterday, FDR pretended […]

The Death of a Cop-Killer

I haven’t blogged about last night’s execution of convicted Georgia cop-killer Troy Davis, in part because Ann Coulter and Ace of Spades already said pretty much what needed to be said. There isn’t really any need for me to dogpile the story except to observe that, even if you have doubts about the death penalty in general, executing cop-killers […]

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