The Other McCain

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NY-9: Boots on the Ground

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Changing planes here on my way to Tampa for the debate, but enough of a layover that I had time to had time to check my e-mail, and found a report on what the Conservative Action Fund is doing in the run-up to Tuesday’s special election in Anthony Weiner’s former congressional district. Here […]

VIDEO: Ladd Ehlinger Strikes NY-9 With Surfing Rabbi and Dancing Weiners

GO RED 9/13! UPDATE: A new Sienna College poll shows Turner leading by 6 points, with a 38-point advantage among independents. Ace of Spades points out that Weprin’s vote for gay marriage might be hurting him among Orthodox Jews in the district. UPDATE II: The latest poll — the second in the past week to […]

NY-9: Democrats Panic as Bob Turner Surges in Anthony Weiner’s District

Three weeks ago, I told you about Republican Bob Turner’s “unexpectedly” strong campaign in New York’s 9th District in the Sept. 13 special election to fill Anthony Weiner’s seat: The district’s Cook Partisan Voting Index rating is only D+5 — not nearly as prohibitively partisan as Jerry Nadler’s 8th District (D+22), for example. And remember […]

‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Money Man Accused in Insurance Fraud Scheme

Hisham Elzanaty A story you will never see covered on the nightly network news: Allstate has become the latest insurance company to accuse Hisham Elzanaty, one of the money men behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque development, of orchestrating a “highly developed and sophisticated kickback scheme” that allegedly reaped more than $5 million for Elzanaty […]

‘Unexpectedly’: Voters in NY-9 District Realize President Obama Is a ‘Moron’

By now you’ve noticed how bad economic news in the Obama age is always “unexpected” according to liberal reporters. Now the failure of Obamanomics seems to be intruding into the political sphere: Of all the places to hear fulminations against President Obama, one of the least expected is the corner of 71st Avenue and Queens […]

Zilla Wins the Internet

Over the weekend I did a post about Zilla’s fundraiser to avert doom. Thanks to your help, doom was averted and now — shades of Russ Emerson — Zilla is under assault by the sub-humans at Democrat Underground who call her (among much else) “a far-right racist . . . bigotbot who ran smear campaigns […]

N.Y. Post: Maid’s Rape Accusation Against IMF Chief Was Shakedown by a Hooker

If this story is to be believed, the hotel maid was also known to turn a few tricks to help pay her bills, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn is kind of the Duke lacrosse team of international financiers. Let it be noted that . . . er, sex industry professionals can indeed be victims of crime, but […]

Equality Über Alles, New York

Can mere words suffice to describe it? ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born. The bill was approved on a 33-to-29 […]

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