The Other McCain

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

My Adorable 8-Year-Old Daughter Just Thanked Me for a Turkey Sandwich

Turkey and cheese on a croissant, to be more specific. It happened that Reagan and I were the only ones at home at lunchtime today, so when I went up to the kitchen to pour myself another cup of coffee, she came to me and said, “Dad, could you please fix me some lunch?” Sure, I said, […]

A. Two Famous Politicians Who Make Headlines But Will Never Be President

Q. Who are John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani? Politico has to rely on the National Enquirer as a source for their “John Edwards to Marry His Baby Mama” story. As the man famously said, there are “Two Americas,” and in the liberal America where people used to take Edwards seriously, he’s now just the punchline to a preposterous joke. […]

Knocked Up and Sexy

Yeah, we’re talking about Natalie Portman again. Princess Amidala is now famously pregnant with her own little Luke Skywalker, and People magazine has the latest: Pregnant Natalie Portman kept her hand on her growing baby bump at Wednesday’s People’s Choice Awards in L.A. For her first awards show appearance since announcing her pregnancy and engagement […]

Lisa D on the Herman Cain Bandwagon?

CPAC director Lisa DePasquale profiles Herman Cain in her latest “De Pasquale’s Dozen” column at Human Events. CPAC starts Feb. 10 — just 34 days from now — so go register now.

If John Boehner’s Lost Nick Gillespie …

. . . well, he’s lost libertarians in leather jackets: Memo to Speaker Boehner: If You Won a Congessional Majority Because You Pledged to Cut Spending and You Can’t Think of a Single Program to Cut Now, Please Go Home That’s the headline on a Gillespie post at Reason magazine’s Hit & Run blog after […]

Calling the Democrats’ Bluff

Armed with a rather bizarre CBO estimate — claiming to show that repealing ObamaCare would actually increase the deficit — the president is now trying to push Republicans off their game: President Obama officially drew a line in the sand Thursday evening, threatening to veto House Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obama’s landmark healthcare law. In […]

The Burden of Young Genius

“There is . . . a new generation of young, sophistic bloggers who offer their wisdom from the New York-Washington corridor. They are usually graduates of America’s elite colleges and navigate in an upscale urban landscape. One, the Washington Post’s 26-year-old Ezra Klein, recently scoffed to his readers that a bothersome U.S. Constitution was “100 […]

Herman Cain Will Speak at CPAC!

Via Citzens4Cain on Twitter comes the latest news: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation, is pleased to announce that business leader and talk radio host Herman Cain will address the event to be held February 10-12 in Washington D.C.  Mr. Cain will speak on Friday, February 11 […]

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