The Other McCain

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

The Awful Burden of Influence

My son Jefferson, 12, and Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller at the FRC Values Voters Summit, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 “‘Tis not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.” — Joseph Addison, Cato, 1712 While I was kneeling down in front of the stage in the Regency Ballroom […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk to the Herman Cain Presidential Campaign

To: Mark J. Block, J.D. Gordon Re: U.S. Policy, South Pacific Region The island republic of Vanuatu will, I think, play a key role in the Cain administration’s foreign policy vis-a-vis the South Pacific. While the Republican Party Establishment has long ignored Vanuatu, my years of study of their culture, history, geography and economy have convinced […]

Storm Center: J.D. Gordon Takes Charge as Herman Cain Communications Director

Cmdr. J.D. Gordon (USN, Retired), former Pentagon spokesman, is now communications director for Herman Cain’s presidential campaign. Saturday, I was the first to report that former Pentagon spokesman J.D. Gordon was taking over as de facto press secretary in the wake of Ellen Carmichael’s resignation. Today, I had my first phone interview with Commander Gordon, […]

Fear And Smitty In Las Vegas

by Smitty [Updated to emphasize future tense.] The Western Republican Leadership Conference will be hosting, with CNN, a debate at the Sands Expo on 18 October. That’s a little over two weeks away. Now this blog may be Eastern, highly critical of Republicans, and think that leadership is just one of them book learnin’ concepts […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Republican Nightmare Campaign Tour

“Empty feelings present themselves, and grief enters our lives on a deeper level, deeper than we ever imagined. This depressive stage feels as though it will last forever.” — Professor William Jacobson “The only thing worse than going out on the campaign trail and getting hauled around in a booze-frenzy from one speech to another […]

Generosity, Gratitude and Gonzo

“Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about half the time they honestly doubt their own […]

‘Fired Up’ for Palin?

One of the great things about being both a blogger and a journalist is the opportunity to recycle what I’ve previously blogged for a different readership, as in my Tuesday column for The American Spectator: The dismissive sneers of Palin’s detractors were, quite literally, front-page news in the local press. “You tend to get a sense […]

Fear and Loathing in Manchester: Palin Offers No Sympathy for the Media Devil

The Right Scoop has full video of Sarah Palin’s speech today in Manchester, N.H., and if nothing else, Palin is driving political reporters nuts. At one point during the speech, she referenced the media “ignoring the fact” that the Tea Party movement was a decisive force in last year’s mid-term elections. Her remark clearly irritated […]

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