The Other McCain

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

Bad Memories of Bayshore Boulevard

(Left to right) Natalie Khawam, Gen. David Petraeus, Dr. Scott Kelley, Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus at a party in Tampa. It was August and a hurricane was hovering off the Florida coast that Monday afternoon in Tampa when I set out to find Jim Antle. The senior editor of The American Spectator had my […]

If You Were Saying to Yourself, ‘This Petraeus Scandal Isn’t Crazy Enough …’

You’re going to love this news: Jill Kelley — whose report of threatening e-mails led to revelations of Gen. David Petraeus’s affair with Paula Broadwell — has a “psychologically unstable” twin sister. And when the sister needed a reference in her child custody case, Petraeus provided it: The four-star general’s letter to the court — written […]

VIDEO: Axelrod Laughs About Libya

Via Victory Girls and Ann Althouse: Read the transcript at Fox News. People who vote to re-elect this wretched failure should be ashamed of themselves.

VIDEO: ‘It’s Time for the Truth’

New ad from Women United PAC hits Obama on the Benghazi cover-up: It’s a video. On the Internet. And the Muslim Brotherhood won’t like it. Meanwhile, the latest news: Sources, emails point to communication breakdown in Obama administration during Libya attack

‘The Greatest Feelings of Prejudice’

This is called “blaming the victims” : Pickering said that Americans’ lack of familiarity with Islam –and not Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans— fuels hostility toward Muslims. “Data shows that those Americans who do not know Muslims, who do not know much about Islam, are the ones who harbor the greatest feelings of prejudice,” he […]

Fred Thompson Makes News With Benghazi Comments at AFP Event

It was weird: @ali and I were the only media in the room. I was nodding off until — BOOM! Fred makes news. spectator.org/blog/2012/11/0… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 1, 2012   Fred Thompson speaks in West Chester, Ohio BLUE ASH, Ohio News happens in weird ways. While we were driving to today’s Americans […]

‘Benghazi Story’, A Tea Party Protest

by Smitty Retired General Norwood gathers some Tea Partiers in Florida to protest CBS 10, demanding the media do their jobs and investigate the Benghazi attack: Barack Obama had better hope he loses next Tuesday. You can’t sit behind the Resolute Desk with this much albatross hanging from your neck. via Bluegrass Pundit Update: Instalanche! […]

Al-Qaida Is On The Path To Defeat And Charlie Don’t Surf! UPDATE: Women United Lowers The Boom

by Smitty The first seven words of the title are from #OccupyResoluteDesk. The last three are from the demented Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore. I’m going to argue that, at a high level of abstraction, the two ideas are equally absurd. The Washington Times has an article that is useful for tracking the latest rumors. The […]

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