The Other McCain

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

CPAC Update: Rep. Allen West Will Buy Me Beers and Also Give Keynote Speech

One of these things is very important news: Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) will be the closing keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, he said in a Wednesday morning tweet. Will update with further news of who’s buying me beers at CPAC. Other than “everybody,” of course. UPDATE: It can be […]

Lisa D on the Herman Cain Bandwagon?

CPAC director Lisa DePasquale profiles Herman Cain in her latest “De Pasquale’s Dozen” column at Human Events. CPAC starts Feb. 10 — just 34 days from now — so go register now.

Herman Cain Will Speak at CPAC!

Via Citzens4Cain on Twitter comes the latest news: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation, is pleased to announce that business leader and talk radio host Herman Cain will address the event to be held February 10-12 in Washington D.C.  Mr. Cain will speak on Friday, February 11 […]

‘In One of the Wiser Posts I Have Seen’

Eric at Classical Values knows what words to put beside my name in a post about the alleged conflict between social conservatives and economic conservatives. When (alleged) libertarian Ryan Sager was pushing this “House Divided” angle from one side, I denounced it. And now that some people are pushing it from the other side, I denounce it […]

Ready for the Best. CPAC. Evah?

Confirmed speakers for this year’s event — Feb. 10-12 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in D.C. — include Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz and Haley Barbour — and you can expect many more big names to be announced in the next six weeks. Lisa DePasquale and her crew out-do themselves every […]

Remember: If You Didn’t Vote for Obama, You’re a Dangerous Nut

From my latest American Spectator column: Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. Frank Rich devoted the entirety of his Sunday New York Times column to insinuating that the Tea Party movement is a paranoid aggregation motivated by “frothing anti-government, […]

VIDEO: Yet More Evidence That Frank Schaeffer Is Off His Meds Again

Since being whacked upside the head with the Crazy Stick, Frank Schaeffer has descended into a cartoonish stereotype of prissy self-righteous liberalism. One symptom of being whacked upside the head with the Crazy Stick is that victims talk in deranged run-on sentences: “I’ve been looking at this phenomenon of the so-called ‘stalled’ Barack Obama presidency […]

She Just Digs Those New Media Guys

A minor uproar erupted Friday on Twitter when I sent this message: #FF Everyone should follow Steven Crowder @scrowder if only because his girlfriend is totally HAAAWWWTT! #FollowFriday The aforesaid girlfriend’s friend, Alyssa Cordova of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, took umbrage: @rsmccain #degrading Requiring me to offer the following defense: @LyssCordova I met Hillary […]

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