The Other McCain

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

David Williams, Rand Paul and the Kentucky Tea Party Movement

Some interesting facts: Kentucky has a Democrat governor, Steve Beshear, who is up for re-election this fall in one of the most important off-year elections in the country. Beshear is vulnerable, and his vulnerability involves issues of national relevance. Moody’s and Fitch have downgraded the state’s bond rating because Beshear and the Democrat-controlled state House […]

Can You Hear Me Cheering From The Middle Of Asia?

by Smitty (via Cubachi) Oh Kentucky, the pride you must feel in having a Senator who is packin’ the gear: Senator Rand Paul unveiled his five-year path to a balanced budget, which includes cutting four federal government departments: Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce and Housing and Urban Development. The proposal also calls for the repeal […]

She’s More Catholic Than the Pope

Lisa Graas wants to update the “about” page on her blog, and is looking for commendations from other bloggers, so there’s mine. Lisa always kids me about the fact that among the top referrers to her blog, it’s a bunch of hardcore Catholics and me. Being a pro-life Protestant (and father of six) probably explains that. […]

What Liberals Never Learn

After winning in Kentucky last night, Rand Paul was talking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who dutifully repeated a Democrat talking point: “What if they just raised taxes on the richest, those making more than 250,000 dollars a year?” In answering the question, Paul invoked a basic argument against class warfare as an economic policy: We […]

‘Stomp Her Again, Tim!’

That seems to be the majority sentiment in Kentucky, where the first poll conducted after the notorious head-stomping incident shows Republican Rand Paul now with a 12-point lead, 53-41. People may be dumbfounded to see Paul gaining support after that incident. But if you think Kentuckians like having an Ivy League-educated professional protester trying to turn […]

The Evidently Obligatory ‘How Many House Seats Will the GOP Win?’ Post

Short answer: A lot fewer than they could have, if the NRCC had a freaking clue. Really. Ace of Spades interrogates Jay Cost about the likelihood of Republican gains on the high side of 60, which I consider insanely optimistic, given the face-palming incompetence of the NRCC. But first the good news from Jay Cost: […]

Whatever Was at the Bottom of the Barrel, Chris Matthews Just Scraped It Off

Geoffrey Dickens of Newsbusters nails Matthews for his disgusting Republicans-as-Brownshirts smear: “Chris Matthews, on Wednesday’s Hardball . . . claimed the restraining of a MoveOn.org activist by a Rand Paul supporter reminded him of what “we saw from hoodlums in the thirties in another country I will not mention” and added: “I mean it isn’t […]

‘Stomping Deniers’?

In my American Spectator column this morning, I noted that Joshua Green of The Atlantic Monthly had been quick to use the phrase “brutally attacked” to describe Tim Profitt’s stomping of MoveOn activist Lauren Valle. Well, was it an “attack”? Green now coins the term “stomping deniers” to describe people who’ve questioned the Left’s narrative […]

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