The Other McCain

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

When Dead, Your Emissions Go Down

by Smitty Bluegrass Pundit has Claire McCaskill sounding about 100% airhead, seemingly promoting the idea that tanking the economy provides a silver lining in the form of diminished CO2 emissions. As though sensing the Ghost of Blogblast Future in the room, she attempts to qualify her remark as ‘being sarcastic’, before re-iterating the point. So […]

Palin Derangement Syndrome Prevents Bristol’s Appearance at University

Nothing says “academic freedom” like kowtowing to a few hundred students who signed up for an anti-Palin Facebook page: Anger over a decision to pay Bristol Palin several thousand dollars in student fees to talk to Washington University students about abstinence led to a decision Thursday night to nix Palin’s appearance on a panel here […]

Democrat Attacked After Vitriolic Rhetoric From Sarah Palin … No? Never Mind.

Actually, the attacker only intended to attack Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Missouri), but mistakenly slashed the throat of Penn Valley Community College Dean Albert Dimmitt: That happened last September and the reason you never saw this story in the national news is because the attacker was a left-wing anarchist: In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was […]

Missouri Senate 2012: Club for Growth Backing Sarah Steelman Over Jim Talent?

Philip Klein at The American Spectator reports on a contested GOP primary that may be developing: Yesterday, Sarah Steelman, a former state treasurer and state senator, has announced plans to challenge McCaskill, setting the stage for what could be a hard fought primary. The Club for Growth came out this morning to applaud Steelman’s entrance […]

Nine Key States for 2012

Jennifer Rubin identifies the Democratic senators who are most vulnerable in the next cycle: Jon Tester, Bill Nelson, Jim Webb, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Sherrod Brown, and Kent Conrad, for starters. That’s a total of seven Democrats who voted for (were all the 60th vote for) ObamaCare, supported the stimulus plan, and come from states […]

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