The Other McCain

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

VIDEO: Obama in His Own Words

“You see, you see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage, whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child […]

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz E-Mails Me

Once you sign up for any liberal e-mail list, you’re going to get e-mails from all of them, and this one came from the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee: Friend — My first campaign made me an organizer. Every day, through a hot Florida summer, I knocked on doors and asked my neighbors for […]

CA-36: Special Election Night HQ; UPDATE: Democrat Hahn Wins

UPDATE 11:40 p.m. Pacific (2:40 a.m. Eastern): Democrat Janice Hahn won Tuesday’s special election in California’s 36th Congressional District, defeating Republican businessman Craig Huey. With 100% of precincts reporting, Hahn had 41,585 votes (54.6%) to Huey’s 34,636 (45.4%). After a long delay in the ballot count — frankly, I nodded off — the results went […]

Obama Declares Moral Bankruptcy: ‘No Social Security Checks Next Month!’

A political limbo dance: How low can he go? President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. (Via Memeorandum.) Doug Powers: “Hopefully Social Security recipients are […]

Vadum: Obama Administration Gave ACORN More Than $500,000 This Year

Investigative reporter Matthew Vadum is author of the new book, Subversion, Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, and he just broke another huge scoop. Having previously reported that ACORN got $80,000 in federal funding despite a congressional ban, it now turns out the actual number was much, much bigger: […]

Democrat Janice Hahn’s Mother Dies on Eve of CA-36 Special Election
UPDATE: Poll Shows ‘Obama Fatigue’?

Los Angeles Times: Ramona Hahn, the wife of the late county Supervisor Kenneth Hahn and the mother of both former Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn and City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, died Monday at the age of 86. Ramona Hahn’s death came toward the end of Janice Hahn’s race for Congress in Tuesday’s extremely contentious […]

Will Althouse Praise ‘His Steely Nerve, His Intelligence, and His Groundedness’?

“In a 75-minute meeting Sunday night, President Obama once again demanded that more than $1 trillion in tax increases be part of any deficit reduction package attached to a vote on the debt ceiling. In the session, Obama rejected a Republican proposal to seek $2.5 trillion in spending cuts and reforms, and insisted on higher […]

Cthulhu 2012

“Why settle for the lesser evil?” Sarah Palin on the current evil in Washington: It’s a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add. The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis […]

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