The Other McCain

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

Foreign Policy and the Cult of Experts

Daniel Drezner at Foreign Policy  mocks Herman Cain: So I thought I’d go over to Cain’s campaign website and spend an equal amount of time to analyze his foreign policy thinking. I found…. a total of five paragraphs on “national security.” That’s it. No white papers, fact sheets, bullet points, or list of advisors. So […]

Savage Weirdness at Final Boarding: Did Team Perry Put the Blame on Rubio?

The National Affairs Desk, in the smoking lounge at Dulles International Airport, 1:10 p.m., Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Less than hour until final boarding for my flight to LAX en route to Vegas, and no time to waste on trivia now. While I was checking in the one-way rental car ($164), I […]

Fear and Loathing (and, Yes, Sweet Vengeance) On the Road to Feb. 1, 2012

 Today’s the day I fly off to Las Vegas to cover Tuesday’s crucial Republican presidential debate. It’s a long flight from Dulles to LAX, then a four-hour layover before I catch the plane to Vegas. I’ll be crashing in Barbara Espinosa‘s suite at the Sands, while Smitty and Wombat — both of them got their […]

Day By Day Speaks Truth To Overlords

by Smitty An excellent play by Muir. This prompts me to drop in a bit of Chickenfoot:

‘Howdy. Thank You, Erick.’

Those were the first four words of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s announcement speech at the Red State Gathering in Charleston, S.C., on Aug. 13. At the time, I was the only one who saw Perry’s diss of Iowa Republicans — his deliberate attempt to upstage the Ames Straw Poll held the same day — as an […]

Gasp: Sean Penn Is Onto Our Plan!

Not an Onion parody: Left-wing actor Sean Penn slimed the Tea Party as motivated by racism, charging on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Friday evening that an impediment to President Obama’s success is “what I call the ‘Get the N-word out of the White House party,’ the Tea Party.” At a time when Herman Cain […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.17.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Ha’aretz: Future To Reveal True Cost Of Shalit Deal Release of jailed Palestinians likely to trigger another kidnapping to release the rest Large Crowd Honor’s King’s Dream At Memorial Dedication Thousands gather on the Mall for ceremony Indycar Racer Dan Wheldon Dies In 15-Car Crash Three others injured in […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Is This It?

— compiled by Wombat-socho The Rio Norte Line kicks off this week’s Rule 5 Roundup with one of the hottest redheaded engineers on the Intertubes, continues with an explanation of rugby rules, and winds up with some Golf Channel Rule 5. Also, the Emergency Bra! Over at The POH Diaries, it’s the battle of the […]

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