The Other McCain

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Rick Pitino Discovers the Unsurprising Hazards of Screwing Crazy Women

When you’re a famous basketball coach hired for a new job, perhaps the orientation process should require that you watch a video called, “Crazy Women and Your Penis: A Bad Combination.” It is fair to stipulate that any woman who offers sexual favors to a man she just met is crazy. And when she starts doing you under the table […]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Conor Friedersdorf Sticking Up for Rand Paul?

There must be some explanation, but Friedersdorf has written a column for Newsweek that isn’t half-bad: Will the dismissive treatment of libertarians nevertheless persist? Will reporters covering a 2012 Gary Johnson candidacy zero in on his opposition to the war on drugs, and ask him questions like “Will sex offenders who’ve served their time in […]

The Difference Between Theory And Practice Is Greater In Practice Than In Theory

by Smitty Da Tech Guy asserts that Rand Paul failed to consider his audience when launching into a theoretical discussion on MSNBC: The basic issue isn’t so much with the theory, which I discuss in detail here; the problem is theory can be an excuse to do nothing. As Sen Pat McNamara once said to […]

Shocker: Rand Paul Overwhelmingly Popular in Lower Glennbeckistan

Rand Paul 59%, Jack Hussein Pelosi Conway 34% A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Kentucky, taken Wednesday night, shows Paul earning 59% of the vote, while Conway picks up 34% support . . . Paul . . . is now supported by 82% of the GOP faithful. That figure is up […]

The Rand Paul Round Robin

Rather than continue extending my previous “Intellectual Terrorism” discussion of the Rand Paul civil-rights controversy, I’ll link some relevant stuff here. James Joyner at Outside the Beltway: Doug Mataconis, Oliver Willis, and I were engaged in a brief Twitter back-and-forth on this one last night.  It’s a tougher question than it sounds, especially to a 20-something […]

Rachel Maddow vs. Rand Paul: Intellectual Terrorism and ‘Civil Rights’

Here’s the video: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy David Weigel has some interesting analysis: So is Rand Paul a racist? No, and it’s irritating to watch his out-of-context quotes . . . splashed on the Web to make that point. Paul believes, as many conservatives believe, that the […]

Kentucky Pro-Lifers Accuse Rand Paul of Faking His ‘100%’ Pro-Life Credentials

Press release from Kentucky Right to Life: In a recent fund raising letter from the Rand Paul U.S. Senate Campaign, Rand Paul claims that he “scored 100%” on the Kentucky Right to Life PAC pro-life survey. Rand Paul filled out, signed and faxed the KRLA PAC survey to the KRLA PAC office on February 11th […]

Fallout From Sarah Palin’s Kentucky Senate Endorsement of Rand Paul

For several weeks, I’ve been in communication with Lisa Graas, a Kentucky conservative who operated the PalinTwibe feed on Twitter, with nearly 4,000 followers. Lisa is a Sarah Palin supporter who also supports Bill Johnson in Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, and was extremely disappointed by Palin’s endorsement of Rand Paul in that primary. Now Lisa has […]

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