The Other McCain

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

Grover Norquist Offers A Striking View Of The GOP

by Smitty Bearing Drift has a genuinely interesting interview with Grover Norquist. GN pooh-poohs the importance of the Oval Office occupant, and says that the GOP Congress will be more crucial. Hmmm.

Rick Santorum’s Daughter Elizabeth Will Campaign for Her Father in Hawaii

This news was announced Saturday night: The former Pennsylvania senator broke the news about his daughter while standing on stage at a campaign rally in Missouri with his wife, Karen, and second-oldest child, John. “John just said to me there is an advantage of being the oldest,” Santorum joked. I’ve contacted my editors at The […]

FMJRA 2.0: Spring Forward!

— compiled by Wombat-socho Sandra Fluke Argued for Mandatory Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery Nice Deb The Camp Of The Saints Expose The Media Northern Thoughts & Reflections The Happy Apple Forums Republican Operative Forums Daniel McAndrew Republican Operative Forums BigBigForums The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative The POH Diaries Tundra Tabloids Texas Slant Da Tech […]

Don Surber Makes The Tactical Point, Misses The Strategic

by Smitty I concur with Don Surber here, particularly where issues such as birtherism are concerned: One truism from the Internet is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of crazy. Unfortunately, many conservatives are driving themselves crazy over Barack Obama’s past. This did not work in […]

Erstwhile #Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Scores Six-Figure Book Deal, Raided by FBI, Denounces Snitch

Barrett Brown, blabbering vulgar gibberish into his webcam, March 2011 “The fact that Amazon is now providing money to me and Housh — they’re going to help us get our message out.” — Barrett Brown, November 2011 Longtime readers of the blog will recall that in February 2011, I put up a post with this […]

Podhoretz Writes a Powerful Paragraph

Actually, he writes far more than a paragraph, but he really brings home his point in this one: Yes, if ever you wanted circumstantial evidence that the sources within the McCain campaign who spent October 2008 dumping on Palin anonymously might have included [Nicolle] Wallace and [Steve] Schmidt, you need look no further than HBO’s […]

The World’s Youngest Blogger Discovers Himself While Checking The Books

by Smitty . . .in the form of a photo album we did last Christmas: For a seven-month-old, he’s just a trifle precocious. Probably the blogging.

SANTORUM SCORES ‘DECISIVE’ WIN IN KANSAS REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES

Headline from the New York Times: Santorum Takes a Decisive Victory in Kansas Caucuses Now the story from the Wall Street Journal: OLATHE, Kan.—Rick Santorum easily won the Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas on Saturday as the front-runner, Mitt Romney, didn’t campaign the state. . . . With 95% of precincts reporting, Mr. Santorum had 51% […]

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