The Other McCain

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

‘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 […]

Special Election FL19: Edward Lynch in the First House Campaign of 2010

Of all the candidates making the rounds at CPAC last week, arguably the most important was Edward Lynch, the Republican candidate in Florida’s 19th District. Why? Because (a) Lynch has already won the GOP nomination, (b) most Democrats don’t yet realize how vulnerable this seat could be, and (c) it’s a special election scheduled for […]

CPAC 2010: Bloggerazzi Photopalooza!

“It’s all a blur,” Andrew Breitbart said to me in a phone conversation Monday, as we discussed events at CPAC 2010 — the biggest ever and, most attendees agreed, the best. The “blur” effect that Breitbart described is much like the experience of campaign coverage — you go, go, go day after day, with maybe […]

Smitty and I Featured in . . . GQ?

Thanks to Da Tech Guy for loaning me the fedora, so that Smitty and I were a matched pair in Bloggers Lounge, earning inclusion in the Gentleman’s Quarterly CPAC special online fashion extravaganza. Hey, GQ, if you ever need a right-wing stud to rock a Speedo . . . OK, that was 20 years ago, and I’m well past […]

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