The Other McCain

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

Judd Gregg Succumbs to Palinphobia

In a column for The Hill, the former New Hampshire senator surveys the 2012 GOP presidential primary field and confronts his dread fear that You-Know-Who might win the nomination: Because the nominating process has become so dominated by primary elections, with the vast majority of the delegates chosen by direct vote, it is entirely possible […]

‘Right-Wing’ Sarah Palin?

A story from the British Daily Mail about a deranged teenager stalking Sarah Palin brought me to a screeching halt in the first sentence: A teenager who sent threatening letters to right-wing US politician Sarah Palin has been arrested in her home state of Alaska. What is it about that phrase, “right-wing,” that obtrudes? It’s […]

Palin, Newt, Huck and Cain, Oh My!

Rounding up some 2012 news: Both Doug Brady at Conservatives for Palin and Josh Painter at Texas for Palin liked my reaction to “worthless two-faced backstabbing crapweasel” Frank Bailey. What Bailey has done — trying to cash in with a “tell all” book damaging to his former employer — is a breach of a fundamental […]

Cashing In

OK, so you get hired to do a job and, when the job’s over, you try to hustle a buck by stabbing your former employer in the back. Explain to me why anyone should ever trust you. Or better yet, explain to me why anyone should ever do anything except spit on the ground when […]

Hey, Remember That Crazy Conspiracy Theory Glenn Beck Was Talking About?

According to every Serious Foreign Policy Pundit, it’s absolutely insane for Beck to assert that the Left and the Islamists are in alliance to bring revolution to the Middle East. However, as Donald Douglas points out, that’s what the Left is telling us: The neo-Stalinist ANSWER homepage has the announcement, “Emergency demonstrations: Stop all U.S. […]

Sarah Palin Quotes Instapundit

First, it was “blood libel,” now she’s using “Army of Davids.” Next thing you know, she’ll borrow his “Heh.” Or maybe, “They told me if I voted for John McCain . . .”

Haiku Sonnet For Sarah Palin

by Smitty Given a challenge by Sheppard to write a poem for Sarah Palin, and a boring afternoon meeting, I should like to submit: Haiku Sonnet For Sarah Palin The Palin fascination  Infecting the news today   Really does boggle the mind. Is she Nemesis, some way  Causing POTUS frustration   The very First Teeth to grind? […]

‘Civility,’ Unless It’s Sarah Palin

“Yo, let me tell you something about Sarah Palin, man. She’s good masturbation material. Glasses and all of that — great masturbation material.” — Tracy Morgan, TNT, Inside the NBA You can’t make this stuff up, nor can you explain it. At Salon.com, Ethan Sherwood Strauss flounders around with an attempted intellectualization: It takes a […]

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