The Other McCain

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Fear and Fedora in Las Vegas
When In Doubt, Put It All on Red

You may remember this video of Steve Foley and Eric Odom from my March expedition to Las Vegas: Foley and Odom were playing the slots at the Orleans Hotel & Casino on West Tropicana. The Orleans is way off the Strip, far from the overpriced glitter that attracts rich tourists, celebrities and other high rollers. If […]

Not Agreeing With Power Line Here

by Smitty In discussing Captain Merrill’s defense of Elena Kagan in the WaPo (which I’ll studiously take at face value), Paul at Power Line laments: it’s unfortunate that we’ve reached the point where the military feels constrained to have a legal adviser serving in a Marine infantry batallion. I hope that the actions of this […]

Eric Dondero Sums It Up Nicely

“Taxation is theft. Government is coercion, when you get right down to it. What right does the government have to put a gun to my head and steal from me to support some moocher who wants to sit on their damn couch all day long, munch on Cheetos and watch Oprah Winfrey?” — Eric Dondero, […]

Goreture II: There’s Moore

by Smitty (If you don’t start with Paco, this post will make little sense) Agent Kowalski grimaced at Faisal, securely bound in the chair. The table was empty save the screen sitting on some cheap playback gear. The Gore tape had failed. Or had it succeeded too well? Could the robotic utterances of Al Gore […]

Like Rip Van Winkle

After delivering The Final Wisdom on PA-12 yesterday afternoon, I took a nap and didn’t wake up until nearly midnight. I woke to discover a world of news had transpired: Campbell Brown quit CNN because she’s so doggone unbiased that her ratings sucked. Jimmie Bise pointed out that “CNN runs uninterrupted in every hospital lobby, mechanic waiting room, […]

Despite Re-Tweet by Alyssa Milano, Mickey Kaus Still Senate ‘Long Shot’

Ever since Alyssa re-Tweeted him Oct. 28, Mickey Kaus has been the envy of bloggers everywhere (or at least, bloggers around here). However, that kind of New Media energy — dude, she’s got more than 830,000 followers — has not yet developed into an electoral tsunami: In a year when Tea Party activists and the GOP […]

Almost as Good as ‘Epistemic Closure’

That Atlantic piece about Ricochet has set off a very interesting blog discussion about what it is conservatives should be doing with New Media. All we need now is for Julian Sanchez to weigh in, get Glenn Greenwald and David Frum involved, and we’ll have another pointless month-long time-waster. While we await the onset of Sanchezistic discourse, […]

‘Fun, Light-hearted and Accessible’ Is OK, But How About Winning Elections?

My first reaction to the Ricochet story was admittedly idiosyncratic, whereas Dan Riehl takes a more practical view: It’s a complex topic, but the Left tends to use new media tactically to generate specific results and win elections, not just nationally – but in states and districts, as well. OTOH some on the Right seem focused on […]

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