The Other McCain

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

Reason #7,126 Why Alyssa Milano
Should Be Following Me on Twitter

Just in case you were wondering: LAS VEGAS – Now Tweeting completely naked in Room 249 at the Orleans Hotel. About to get in the shower. Checkout time in 1 hr, 17 minutes. All I need is just one re-Tweet, Alyssa. Now it’s nearly checkout time, which means I’m fully dressed — including the fedora […]

Just Booked My Flight: Vegas, Baby!

“Free Enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. . . . Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. … […]

Q & A With Ann Coulter: Vegas, Baby!

Ann Coulter will speak Saturday in Las Vegas at a Tea Party rally, and not only has she invited everybody to join her in Vegas, but she agreed to this exclusive e-mail interview with The Other McCain: 1. Is this event in Vegas your first Tea Party rally, or have you been quietly lurking in the […]

Who Is Jon Scott Ashjian?

We know that he owes $200,000 in back taxes. We know that his “Tea Party” candidacy is Harry Reid’s only hope for re-election. There are many questions being asked in Nevada: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is facing Republican accusations that he’s behind the emergence of a third-party Tea Party candidate on the ballot who […]

Have Blog (And Fedora) Will Travel

Pete Da Tech Guy has been inspired by the success of his CPAC trip: Do you have an event anywhere in the country that you want covered? I’m willing to do it. My fee is very straightforward. 1 week: $1000 plus expenses. . . . My total hits for Jan & Feb were over 80% […]

MSNBC’s Alternative Reality

While working on my taxes (trying to figure my mileage for 2009) I’ve had the TV in my basement office tuned to MSNBC. Unless Rachel Maddow and her cohorts are hallucinating, the most important story in the world is . . . Republicans are desperate! Obama and his health-care plan are overwhelmingly popular! Crazy right-wingers are going psycho […]

LIVE from Birmingham, Alabama

Yes, that’s right, folks. Despite the law-enforcement dragnet across Virginia and Tennessee — “Be on the lookout for a black 2004 KIA Optima . . .” — I have arrived at an undisclosed location  in Birmingham. Political intrigue and shenanigans are afoot down here in God’s country, and I’ll be updating regularly. While en route — 785 miles […]

Alabama: ‘Things Going On’

I’m planning to leave late tonight or early Thursday for a shoe-leather reporting trip to Alabama. That rattling sound you hear is either the transmission of the 2004 KIA Optima or me shaking the tip-jar like Carmen Miranda’s maracas in a Cuban samba frenzy. This trip continues the Grassroots-vs.-Establishment theme I’ve been covering for the past few months. There […]

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