The Other McCain

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

VIDEO: Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation’ — ‘Offering the Country a Better Choice’

Interviewed by Norah O’Donnell on CBS, the Republican vice presidential candidate stays focused and slams home his point: “You know, what we have learned in this presidency, [President Obama] says one thing and he does another. He gave us four budgets, Norah, each of which had trillion dollar deficits, none of which ever, ever proposed to […]

Be Ye Not Dismayed

Smitty jumped on Dave Weigel for his “trolling” article, and I’ll let that stand, except to add that Weigel seems to be advocating that mainstream journalism adopt an even more stringently pro-Democrat “message discipline” — as if, for example, having Soledad O’Brein literally reading liberal blogs on the air at CNN is insufficient proof of their abject partisanship. […]

The Problem With Sexual ‘Rights’

“Seizing on the triumphant narrative of the black civil-rights movement, liberals adopted the habit of framing political debates in terms of minority ‘rights’ versus majority ‘discrimination.’ . . . To disagree with a liberal, to oppose his latest policy proposal, is to invite comparisons to Bull Connor and Orval Faubus, so long as the liberal […]

The Sexual Predators Union

Otherwise known as the United Federation of Teachers: In the last five years in New York City, 97 tenured teachers or school employees have been charged by the Department of Education with sexual misconduct. . . . [T]he unions — believing that they are helping the cause of teachers by being weak on sexual predators […]

DNC Charlotte: Warming Up

Arriving at the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 5, 2012 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Ali Akbar and I drove all night to get here, and the worst part of the drive was passing through the mountains on I-77 at 4 a.m. when the fog was so thick you couldn’t see 10 feet in front of the car. […]

DNC Charlotte: Obama’s Thursday Apotheosis Gets Rained Out

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina While I was waiting to pick up my media credentials this morning, the official word came that Thursday’s final night of the convention will be moved indoor due to a severe weather forecast. CNN reports: After days of bad weather, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and Democratic National Convention organizers have decided to […]

Sociopaths and Democrats

But I repeat myself. A sudden change of plans requires me to leave soon for Charlotte to cover the Democratic National Convention. After the car trouble that turned my trip home from Tampa into a three-day ordeal, I had hoped to spend a few days at home before going back out on the campaign trail, […]

DNC Platform Lets Hamas Off the Hook

Jeff Dunetz reports: Comparing the language of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the 2012 Democratic Party Platform a key section was removed. That section called for isolating Hamas “until it renounces terrorism,” so now, evidently, Democrats are OK with Hamas terrorism. Press statement from Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition: “This […]

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