The Other McCain

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

CPAC Day 2: About Last Night

Thursday night, commitments brought me to three different events: The “Blogger Bash” at FreedomWorks, Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Party” with Sophie B. Hawkins (above) at Eighteenth Street Lounge, and the “Kruiser Cabana” in Stephen Kruiser‘s hotel suite. Packed into the Eighteen Street Lounge, conservatives listen to a presentation by Andrew Breitbart, who helped sponsor the event […]

CPAC Day 1: Birthers and Other Jokes

OK, a Republican congressman from Idaho, a native of Puerto Rico, jokes that he has proof of his American citizenship: That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are. Also funny: Ann Coulter’s latest column about the GOProud controversy. Not funny at all: A GOProud official calling Cleta Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation a “nasty […]

My Favorite Line by Shakespeare

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 OK, maybe not all the lawyers. My son-in-law will be attending law school this fall and hasn’t done anything to deserve killing. Yet. Also, my son-in-law is a Christian, and thus remembers my […]

Dave Weigel Calls Himself ‘Progressive’? (Also: Dibs on ‘Arianna Huffington Nude’)

Did ex-libertarian David Weigel just say what it looks like he said here? Imagine a future in which AOL, the online portal for millions of people, farms out its news content to the Huffington Post. Imagine a future in which Yahoo!, the online portal for millions of similar people, hires the deputy publisher of Talking […]

Amity Shlaes for Senate?

Adam Brickley has an interesting suggestion for New York Republicans: The GOP needs a high profile opponent who will force Gillibrand to explain herself – and given her record we don’t think she can. The only question is who can do this while raising the money to compete in expensive New York Our suggestion is […]

‘Rhymes-With-Shmoogle’

Pejman Yousefzadeh disassembles Conor Friedersdorf with admirable gusto, beginning, “I really have things I would prefer doing this evening instead of engaging in yet another blogfight with someone at the Atlantic, but . . .” Yousefzadeh eviscerates Friedersdorf for defending anti-Israel crank Philip Giraldi and you’ve really got to read the whole thing, which includes […]

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Matt Lewis Won’t Work for Arianna Huffington; Soon He’ll Be Working for Tucker Carlson

He just gave his two weeks’ notice at AOL’s Politics Daily, saying “AOL has vastly underestimated the public perception . . . that Huffington is a far-left liberal,” and adding: I am incredibly blessed to be joining a terrific organization in The Daily Caller. I look forward to learning from its founder and editor in chief, […]

Shocked! Shocked!

A psychology professor discovers only three conservatives in an audience of a thousand of his academic peers, a fact that surprises no one who knows anything about academia, and particularly not Professor William Jacobson.

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