The Other McCain

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

Outrageous: MSNBC Broadcast Causes Left-Wing Woman to Make Fake School-Shooting Threat Blamed on Tea Party

On Nov. 9, South Florida talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman was named as chief of staff for newly-elected Republican congressman Allen West. That night, Rachel Maddow aired a video of Kaufman giving a fiery speech at a Tea Party. A shooting threat Nov. 10 led to the shutdown of Broward schools, and Kaufman’s resignation was announced Nov. 11.  Two weeks […]

FBI Report: Remember That Predicted Wave of Tea Party Hate Crimes?

Despite warnings about “right wing extremists” from the Department of Homeland Security, the Great Hate Tsunami of 2009 failed to materialize: The number of hate crime incidents in the United States reported for 2009 came down from 2008, according to data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday. “While the number of law […]

‘The Demagogic Bloggers on the Right’

Frequent commenter “Joe” calls our attention to Patterico’s dig at Jeff Goldstein (and unnamed others) in which the prosecutor endeavors to play the Instapundit card: Now that Glenn has said the same thing the “pragmatic” conservatives are saying, will the blogospheric demagogues who seek out Mark Levin’s favor put Glenn Reynolds on the list of […]

No Regrets in Delaware

DOVER, Delaware — Christine O’Donnell did not merely defeat Mike Castle in Tuesday’s Senate primary. She beat the Republican establishment, both nationally and in Delaware, and she beat a veritable army of naysayers who said she couldn’t do it. . . . — “This Changes Everything,” The American Spectator, Sept. 15, 2010 The other day, […]

Teavangelical Party?

by Smitty (via HotAir) The Brody File: Here’s the bottom line: conservative Evangelicals see fiscal issues as moral issues. Fiscal responsibility is an ethical issue. There are plenty of retarded things one can do with money sans prevarication, which would make the idiocy immoral in addition to stupid. Plenty of Jews, Atheists, and Roman Catholics […]

Staff: The Tea Party Express Bus Tour Is Veering North Of Us This Time
Patrick Murray: Then We Do Our Own

by Smitty The Tea Party Express is rolling through some of the bluest Congressional districts on its fourth trek leading up to the election. What a great job they’ve done the last couple of years, keeping the Tea Party spirit alive. They can’t make it everywhere, though, and let’s face it: Beltway traffic around DC […]

Have Mercy, Been Waitin’ For The Tea Party Express All Day

by Smitty A couple of images, via email from the Tea Party Express: and the great big little crowd: The Reverend Billy Gibbons is slightly confused about the route, but still serves up the blues for those Blue states. This looks like a front row recording from some small venue. The sound is slightly underwater, […]

Yeah, Tea Party Express: Yeah

by Smitty Round IV of the Tea Party Express Tour, taking us right up to the elections, kicks off in eight days. These things are fantastic, and will provide a steadily building stream of news leading up to the election. Go with Motörhead, Tea Party Express:

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