The Other McCain

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

CPAC 2010: Bloggerazzi Photopalooza!

“It’s all a blur,” Andrew Breitbart said to me in a phone conversation Monday, as we discussed events at CPAC 2010 — the biggest ever and, most attendees agreed, the best. The “blur” effect that Breitbart described is much like the experience of campaign coverage — you go, go, go day after day, with maybe […]

Smitty and I Featured in . . . GQ?

Thanks to Da Tech Guy for loaning me the fedora, so that Smitty and I were a matched pair in Bloggers Lounge, earning inclusion in the Gentleman’s Quarterly CPAC special online fashion extravaganza. Hey, GQ, if you ever need a right-wing stud to rock a Speedo . . . OK, that was 20 years ago, and I’m well past […]

Would Everyone Please Stop Arguing About Gays and Ryan Sorba?

You’re depressing me. Really. Because I’m feeling the need to write a 2,500-word essay that no one will pay me to write. It’s very easy for Bryan Fischer to stir this up by denouncing Hot Air. That’s what he gets paid to do, stir things up. But there are important arguments being overlooked because no one will […]

Why Keith Olbermann Is Failing

Flipping through the channels this evening, I happened onto Keith Olbermann in media res. He was doing his “Worst Person in the World” list. Number 3 was just a dumbed-down rehash of a TPM item about Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams. Olbermann began by describing Williams as a “fired ex-Albany, New York, hate-radio host” and after excerpting the TPM […]

What All the Cool Kids Are Wearing

You know you want to buy one of these T-shirts:

Voodoo Obamanomics: More Creepy Tales of the Undead Zombie Health Care Plan

While we were covering Scott Brown’s campaign in Massachusetts, Dan Collins showed me The Zombie Survival Guide, which would come in mighty handy now as we watch the remorseless efforts of Democrats to revivify the ghastly corpse of ObamaCare: [T]he Obama Administration released a description of its health care proposal, and CBO has already received […]

Mark Levin vs. Glenn Beck (And Some Other CPAC-Related Musings)

My 17-year-old son Bob was driving home Monday evening after we’d picked up his twin brother James from work and we were listening to the Mark Levin’s opening monologue on 1490 AM here in Hagerstown when I said, “Uh-oh, he’s going after Glenn Beck.” I grabbed pen and a piece of paper and jotted down […]

Funny, My Wife Says the Same Thing

“At which point I ran into Robert Stacy McCain and saw my entire evening turned upside down.” — Adam Brickley, Race for 2012

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