The Other McCain

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

Moe Lane Interviews Mattie Fein

At Red State:

VIDEO: Democrat Jane Harman Admits, ‘Ahmadinejad Was . . . My Boyfriend!’

Profiting from the sale of dual-use technology to Iran? Rep. Jane Harman (D-Transylvania) might have gotten away with this monstrous scheme, had it not been for Young Mattie Fein: You knew when Ladd Ehlinger Jr. went to Hollywood, he’d produce something brilliant. Here’s the script: FRAU HARMAN: Ahmadinejad! Ahmadinejad! We have done it! I’m going to set […]

Is the GOP Heading for Heartbreak?

OK, after reading Karl’s Hot Air post, I’m starting to feel a bit embarrassed about my own grim outlook on the fall elections: Am I too pessimistic? Am I turning into Allahpundit? Let me explain: I was at Doug Hoffman’s headquarters in Saranac Lake, N.Y., the night he came up short, and I was at Tim […]

Arizona Madness

There is a candidate in the Arizona 3rd District GOP congressional primary named Steve Moak who doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Phoenix, no matter what anyone may try to tell you.  Moak’s candidacy is utterly doomed, but it has provided some amusement: Click this article at the Phoenix New Times and read down to the comments, […]

News Flash: Politics Is About Elections

It shouldn’t be necessary to say this in a crucial mid-term election year, but I have been troubled to find that it’s difficult to get conservatives to concentrate on supporting individual candidates in actual elections. When I spent three weeks covering Tim Burns in the PA-12 special election, traffic to the blog actually went down. That was discouraging. Everybody’s always […]

Florida Democrats Think This Allen West Video Will Help Ron Klein

The Florida Democratic Party has created an attack Web site called “The Real Allen West” — which showed up here via an Adsense rotation — featuring this video: Isn’t that great? Ron Klein has gone from ignoring Allen West to trying to convince people that the Republican is some kind of dangerous radical. In other […]

Ladd Ehlinger Jr. Goes Hollywood

My latest column at The American Spectator: HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — On a sound stage near Santa Monica Boulevard, actress Valerie Novak flubs a line and director Ladd Ehlinger Jr. asks her to repeat it. “And — action!” Novak nails the line this time and continues with her dramatic monologue when the director’s cell phone rings, […]

Socialist Opiates Are Addictive Indeed

by Smitty The Tenth Amendment Center reprints a fine overview of the Social Security disaster: If the words “general welfare” and “United States” are put in their proper context, then the general welfare provision grants Congress the power “[t]o lay and collect Taxes… to provide for the… group well being of all the United States.” […]

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