The Other McCain

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

The Todd Palin Legal Defense Fund

Todd Palin helps his wife sign autographs after her Sept. 5 rally in Manchester, N.H. (Photo by Peter Ingemi.) A source who doesn’t need to hide behind a cloak of anonymity: “This is a man who has been relentlessly stalking my family to the point of moving in right next door to us to harass […]

Somebody’s Taking My Advice?

One hesitates to presume influence, especially when what one advises is just common-sense stuff that seems obvious. So yesterday I wrote that Republicans should “relentelessly expose the Solyndra scandal” and added: GOP presidential candidates can help maximize the impact of exposure by making Solyndra the focus of their attacks on the incumbent’s policy agenda. We […]

AttackWatch: HR2911 Thugs The Title ‘American Jobs Act’

by Smitty Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, in a nearly IowaHawkean bout of tee-hee-hee, President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation. See, if you were […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.15.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Obama Pushes Jobs Plan As Good For Hispanics Makes pitch during Congressional Hispanic Caucus awards gala, gets polite applause House To Vote On Bill Targeting NLRB Bill would bar NLRB from forbidding relocations or shutting down plants GOP Wins In Special Elections Sound A Warning House Dems seriously worried […]

The Recklessness of Joe McGinniss

Having already discussed his unspeakably vile “Jungle Fever” smear on Sarah Palin, now we learn — via Ace of Spades — that McGinniss expended considerable effort pursuing a story that depicted her father Chuck Heath as having created “a lynch mob mentality.” Rob Port at Say Anything was contacted by McGinniss because Port’s father was […]

Did You Know the Word ‘Miscegenation’ Was Invented by Democrats as a Smear?

Nineteenth-century American newspapers were, in general, partisan in their politics, and the New York World was a Democrat paper. In 1863, two writers for the World, George Wakeman and David Goodman Croly, wrote a 72-page pamphlet that was published anonymously with the title, Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the […]

Obama’s Down. Can GOP Put Him Out?

“There is only so much disaster-control you can do. When you’re in a disaster, you can spin it as ‘not that bad’ or ‘not my fault’ . . . but you cannot actually spin or speechify a horrific state of affairs into a positive one.” — Ace of Spades, “Obama on the Ropes? Two GOP […]

Democrats Discover the SCOAMF Factor

“The Democratic Party’s rare loss of a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen the party’s crisis of confidence and raise concerns about President Barack Obama’s political fortunes. . . . In […]

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