The Other McCain

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

A. Second Only to the Bible

Q. Is Seize Freedom by Thaddeus McCotter the greatest book in all human history? I don’t want to say which one of our commenters has spent several days harassing encouraging me to say a good word for Rep. McCotter’s book. Nor is it my inclination to disclose the vast wealth boundless gratitude that I’ve been […]

A One-Way Ticket to Des Moines …

. . . would cost $249 if I booked today for an Aug. 3 departure from Reagan National in D.C. You may ask, “Why Iowa? Why Aug. 3? Why a one-way ticket?” Here’s the story at The American Spectator: Atlanta businessman Herman Cain will begin a nine-day bus tour of Iowa next week, leading up […]

What Happened to ‘No Drama Obama’?

Turned the TV on this afternoon to try to get some news about the Oslo terrorism attacks and instead, I get a hectoring and angry President Obama. It appears that House Speaker John Boehner has found his spine and isn’t going to be bullied into raising taxes, and this has driven the president into paroxyms […]

The Terrible Legislative Catastrophe No One Will Remember in November 2012

For weeks we’ve endured non-stop sturm und drang about the debt-ceiling crisis, and the tightrope negotations between President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress: President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner rushed Thursday to strike agreement on a far-reaching plan to reduce the national debt but faced a revolt from Democrats furious that the […]

Pregnancy Is Not a Disease and Contraception Is Not ‘Health Care’

Why, therefore, does Obama want to make insurance coverage for birth control mandatory? Virtually all health insurance plans could soon be required to offer female patients free coverage of prescription birth control, breast-pump rentals, counseling for domestic violence, and annual wellness exams and HIV tests as a result of recommendations released Tuesday by an independent […]

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Is ‘Vile … Despicable … Coward,’ Says Allen West

About time someone said it: From: Z112 West, Allen Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 04:48 PM To: Wasserman Schultz, Debbie Cc: McCarthy, Kevin; Blyth, Jonathan; Pelosi, Nancy; Cantor, Eric Subject: Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly […]

GOP Dept. of Media Relations

Doug Ross of ABC News gets roughed up by Michele Bachmann’s security: Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white […]

Why Is Tim Pawlenty Losing?

Walter Shapiro at The New Republic: But, midway through the interview, desperate for a headline-making morsel about his home-state rival, I asked Pawlenty to respond to the assessment that he was the establishment and [Michele] Bachmann was the outsider in Minnesota politics. To my surprise, Pawlenty sprang to life. He spent the next four minutes […]

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