The Other McCain

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NY-26 Update: Fake ‘Tea Party’ Candidate Davis Skips Debate, Attacks Cameraman

This video of Crazy Jack Davis is making the rounds today: For reasons unknown, Crazy Jack pulled out of today’s debate in Rochester with Republican Jane Corwin and Democrat Kathy Hochul. The cameraman, a GOP volunteer, was trying to ask Davis why he canceled his debate appearance less than two weeks before the May 24 special […]

‘This Defies Any Further Explanation’

That’s the caption Larry O’Connor of Breitbart TV supplies for this video of ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis singing “Wal-Mart Sucks” at a mocking “church” event in New York City: (Via Memeorandum.) Well, you may ask, who is Bertha Lewis? What does Bertha Lewis believe? She spoke during a March meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists: […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.12.11

TOP NEWS Whose Side Is Pakistan’s ISI On? A good look into the murky, sometimes two-faced Pakistani intelligence agency Jury Scuttle “Jolly Raj-er” Galleon Group founder  convicted of insider trading Flood’s Crest Delivers Fresh Misery In Mississippi Nine of the eleven counties affected in Mississippi have poverty rates of 27% or more POLITICS Gingrich Courts […]

In the Future, Every Semi-Famous Woman Will Be Photographed Naked

An addendum to Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” prophecy, based on two items at the celebrity gossip aggregator WeSmirch: EXCLUSIVE: Mick Jagger’s daughter Lizzy Jagger nude in new Playboy Ex-Charlie Sheen ‘goddess’ poses for ‘Playboy’? So that Set A (“semi-famous women”) and Set B (“nude women”) eventually will overlap to such a degree as […]

BREAKING: New Iowa Poll Shows Herman Cain Surge to Double-Digit Lead

Via Steve Foley at Citizens for Cain: Herman Cain . . . . . . . .23.7% Mike Huckabee . . . . . . 12.3% Newt Gingrich . . . . . . . 9.7% Ron Paul . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1% Sarah Palin . . . […]

Of Straw Men, Politics and Policy

Here is (limited) praise of the use of “straw men” in discourse and, guest-blogging at Instapundit, Kenneth Anderson says, “I rather agree.” Stipulate that creating a tendentious characterization of an opposing argument for the sake of argument is nothing particularly objectionable. If all you are doing is hashing out ideas in a more or less […]

NY-26 Update: New TV Ad; NRCC Gets Involved; Whither David Ballavia? UPDATE: Holy Freaking Crap! Donald Trump Now Blaming Paul Ryan?

Lots of new developments in New York’s 26th District special election campaign since I blogged about it yesterday. First, here’s a look at that new TV ad from American Crossroads: They’re targeting Crazy Jack Davis, the fake “Tea Party” candidate who ran three times unsuccessfully as a Democrat in 2004, 2006, and 2008. Meanwhile, in a […]

U.S. Government Program Providing Global Opportunities for Women

If by “global opportunities,” you mean a chance to get raped by thugs in backward Third World countries: Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and “helping the world.” She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized in an alley by […]

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