The Other McCain

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

Herman Cain: ‘We Have People on the Ground’ in Early Primary States

My profile feature on Herman Cain is now up at The American Spectator, and the big takeaway is, he’s for real: Getting from “dark horse” to serious contender is a task Cain has assigned to a campaign team headed by two Republican operatives from Wisconsin, Mark Block and Scott Toomey. . . . In New […]

Worst. Congress. EVAH! Also Turns Out to Have Been Breathtakingly Unethical

Remember when Democrats promised to clean up the “culture of corruption” in Washington? Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, despite warnings that such actions could create ethics problems. The campaign donations often came from contributors with major stakes riding […]

What Line Did Sady Doyle Cross?

Today I got a Tweet from the feminist who started the #MooreandMe campaign against Michael Moore. You will recall that Moore went on Keith Olbermann’s show and dismissed as “hooey” the rape accusations against WikiLeaks mogul Julian Assange. And when Sady Doyle started her Twitter campaign against Moore, my headline was, “Merry Christmas, America: Feminists […]

Hated by Haters

“Like the professoriate, publishers have become especially cautious, some might say cowardly or sadly, realistic. They do not want an Islamist bomb thrown through their windows, they do not want to absorb the cost of security for an author against whom a fatwa has been issued, nor do they want to pay to defend themselves […]

BREAKING: Arizona Republican Lawmaker Hospitalized After Attack

Evidently he surprised a burglar: Police in Casa Grande say an Arizona legislator was sent to the hospital after being beaten and knocked unconscious. Mike Keck of the Casa Grande Police Department says Rep. Frank Pratt was found by his wife about 8 p.m. Saturday at his business, Pratt Pools in Casa Grande. Keck says […]

‘Unexpectedly’! Global Warming Continues to Bury East Coast in Blizzard

“Atlanta and the Southeast were hit with a rare Christmas snowstorm Saturday.” In fact, it was my hometown’s first Christmas snowstorm since 1882 and The Blog Prof provides this video report: Speaking of professors who blog: Professor Glenn Reynolds has photos of cute dogs and horses in the snow, because chicks dig that stuff. William Teach is […]

Prayers for Andrew Lawton

He is that rara avis, a Good Canadian: There has been no major news in the last couple days about Andrew, who remains in stable (but critical) condition and in a medically-induced coma. Doctors have taken him off one medication and have reduced others and he’s tolerating the new regimen well, which is a small bit […]

You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught

“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.” — George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” “In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he […]

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