The Other McCain

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RICK PERRY IN FREEFALL?

Three headlines after last night’s debate: Perry is blowing it — Philip Klein, Washington Examiner Orlando GOP debate: A strong night for Santorum as Perry fades — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Rick Perry Blindsided Again In Debate On Immigration, Rick Santorum Has Big Night — Sam Stein and Jon Ward, Huffington Post Now, those are […]

ORLANDO DEBATE: Open Thread UPDATE: ‘You Don’t Have a Heart’

Nine Republican candidates will be debating in Orlando, Florida (Fox News , 9 p.m.) tonight and, rather than live-blogging, I’ll be aggregating and occasionally updating. Karl Rove has “handicapped” the debate. Thad McCotter is dropping out of the GOP race, after being repeatedly excluded from the debates. UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: After the first commercial break, […]

Unlike ‘Tawdry Gossip’ About Sarah Palin

. . . rumors that Levi Johnston’s sister is the kind of floozy who poses naked for Playboy magazine have been confirmed and documented: There have been rumors around Wasilla that Mercede was one of the sources for Joe McGinniss’s book. It was reported in June 2010 that Mercede’s anti-Palin blog (now defunct) was created by […]

SHOCKER: Joe McGinniss’s Credibility Destroyed by E-Mail to Jesse Griffin; UPDATE: Griffin Does Not Deny E-Mail

“Jesse Griffin, the Alaska blogger who Saturday claimed in an ‘exclusive’ report that Todd and Sarah Palin were divorcing, will no longer work as an Anchorage kindergarten teaching assistant, school officials confirmed Wednesday. “Griffin’s resignation followed revelations that the 49-year-old Griffin had posted (under the alias ‘Gryphen’) sexually explicit advocacy of pornography and masturbation on […]

The Death of a Cop-Killer

I haven’t blogged about last night’s execution of convicted Georgia cop-killer Troy Davis, in part because Ann Coulter and Ace of Spades already said pretty much what needed to be said. There isn’t really any need for me to dogpile the story except to observe that, even if you have doubts about the death penalty in general, executing cop-killers […]

Obligatory: Doug and Courtney Stodden Get a Reality Show Development Deal

Wombat headlined this in “Live at Five,” but given how much attention we’d previously given the Hollywood teen bride, here’s some more: Teen bride Courtney Stodden has signed a deal with a production company to produce her reality show Radaronline.com has exclusively learned. The 17-year-old and her Green Mile actor husband Doug Hutchison have signed […]

Solyndra’s ‘Green Jobs’ Included Employment for D.C. Lobbyists — Including Former Democrat Aides

Executives at bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra went on a lavish spending spree after they got a $535 million federal “stimulus” loan. This  Washington Post story is curiously vague about certain details: Company executives ramped up their Washington lobbying efforts, hiring a former Senate aide to work with the White House and the Energy Department. […]

How Could @Alyssa_Milano Use Twitter to Challenge Media ‘Explanation Space’?

In a long post about why mainstream reporters love Twitter but hate blogs, Craig Henry points out how blogging undermines MSM dominance in a way Twitter really can’t: Blogs, especially the long-form blogging that Den Beste did or that Neo-neocon still does, has the potential to break the MSM’s monopoly on “explanation space.” . . […]

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