The Other McCain

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

Karl Rove Decides Popular Guy Leading All the Polls Can’t Possibly Win Election

Just about the time Herman Cain pulls ahead in the Real Clear Politics average — and is leading by double digits in Iowa  — the Architect goes on Fox News to denounce Cain as “not up to the task“: Remember that Karl is the guy who engineered George Bush’s landslide victory, by a margin of […]

Downgrading America

by Smitty Big Government links The Hill with a poll saying over 2/3 of voters say America is in decline. Meanwhile, HotAir brings the new RNC ad going after BHO for his bus tour in NC and VA: Got news for BHO about the Commonwealth: the impending VA election will likely be as savory to […]

Voorhees Announces Late Entry to 2012 GOP Field; Huntsman Reportedly Worried

T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII hears the call: “With the President vulnerable and so many sensible government contracts at stake, they have persuaded me that the GOP electorate is yearning for the one voice in our party brave enough to consistently stand athwart the Tea Party lunacy. And, with the entire current Republican field variably […]

No Surprise: Sharia Law in Libya

What “liberation” means in the Islamic world: Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its “basic source”. … Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi’s era that he […]

George Will Plays the Dukakis Card on an Unsuspecting Romney

by Smitty “It has a lot to do with Romney. He is rising as more and more Republicans come to the conclusion that the Republican Party has found its Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor running on competence, not ideology.” I’m looking at the National Debt Clock and wondering just What. The. Flippy-flop. George Will […]

‘Controversy’ Over: National Right to Life Vouches for Cain’s Pro-Life Bona Fides

We should consider the abortion kerfuffle kicked off by the Piers Morgan interview Wednesday as being decisively ended now: The National Right to Life Committee is today [Friday] vouching for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s bona fides, saying the businessman who is considered by many to be the current GOP frontrunner is pro-life. … “Herman Cain’s pro-life,” […]

Frank Lasee: Conservative Seeks to Bring Wisconsin Reform Message to U.S. Senate

“Let’s Get Wisconsin Working Again” was the winning message that helped elect Frank Lasee to a state senate seat in Wisconsin last fall, and he was part of the conservative Republican majority that pushed through reform legislation and balanced the budget under Gov. Scott Walker. A veteran legislator with a business background, first elected to […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.24.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Quake In Eastern Turkey Kills 217, Collapses Buildings Quake measured at 7.2 on Richter scale; hundreds injured and dozens trapped in province on Iranian border Libya Declares Liberation, End To Khadafi Era NTC holds ceremony to celebrate liberation, call for reconciliation after four decades under the dictator Apple Posts […]

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