The Other McCain

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

EXCLUSIVE: Murkowski’s Libertarian Effort Is Led by Longtime Palin Enemy

Early Wednesday morning, Alaska Libertarian Party chairman Scott Kohlhaas got a call from ex-Republican Andrew Halcro, asking if Kohlhaas would be open to having Sen. Lisa Murkowski replace Dave Haase as the LP’s Senate candidate. Such a switch would be the only option for Murkowksi to be on the Nov. 2 ballot, should she and the National […]

EXCLUSIVE: Alaska LP Senate Candidate Dave Haase Is ‘Huge Sarah Palin Fan’

Libertarian Party sources in Anchorage say they’ve been deluged with phone calls today from media and “political types” asking about the LP line on the ballot, which is Lisa Murkowski’s only hope to remain in the Senate unless her NRSC lawyer can find a way to steal the GOP nomination from Joe Miller. Murkowski’s supporters […]

Liberal Women Try ‘Mama Grizzly’ Shtick: ‘You Know What Threatens Me? My Daughter Not Having the Right to Choose’

From the pro-abortion group Emily’s List, which presumes to answer Sarah Palin: Ace does the “Top Ten Reasons” this video doesn’t work, but I stopped cold at the woman expressing adamant support for her daughter’s “right to choose.” Isn’t that kind of creepy? Basically, you’re saying that the abortion of your own grandchild is such a grand idea […]

BREAKING: Handel Concedes; Nathan Deal Wins Ga. GOP Gubernatorial Runoff

A recount seemed certain last night, but now Karen Handel has called it quits, as Aaron Sheinin reports from Atlanta: Yesterday, Karen Handel called Nathan Deal a “corrupt relic of Washington.” Today, however, Handel said she is endorsing him as the GOP nominee for governor. In a statement just released from the Handel campaign, she […]

World’s Most Dubious Storybook Romance Turns Out to Be Fiction

C’mon, did you really buy into the Bristol Palin-Levi Johnston reunion? Ricky Hollywood is far too deeply in love with himself to permit anyone else to intrude. In fact, as a pathological narcissist, Levi is incapable of recognizing other people as fully human. They are merely objects which have no purpose for existence other than as means of his own […]

Oh, Joy! Guess What the Journolisters Had to Say About Sarah Palin?

Jonathan Strong is back with more delightful disclosures of progressive groupthink: In the hours after Sen. John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the last presidential race, members of an online forum called Journolist struggled to make sense of the pick. . . . The tone […]

Incentivizing the Anti-Palin Slime

Chris Bodenner at The Atlantic Monthly: The link is to Jesse Griffin of the Immoral Minority blog, who perpetrated the Palin divorce hoax of August 2009, and who was forced to resign as a kindergarten aide at an Anchorage elementary school after his porn-blogging habits were exposed. Griffin, Dennis Zaki, Jeanne Devon — when it […]

A Relevant Parable

Once on a snowy evening, a woman went for a walk and happened upon a snake. The snake had strayed from his nest before the winter storm hit and, unable to make it back underground in time, was now nearly frozen to death. Seeing its beautiful colors and having pity, the woman decided to rescue […]

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