The Other McCain

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

Do Sovereign Nations Name Their Capitols? Not According To Joe Kennedy

by Smitty Wikipedia gives the answer for the capitol of Israel correctly: Jerusalem. Prospective Massachusetts Democrat Representative Joe Kennedy III, not so much. It’s not like the question was: “What is the capitol of Burkina Faso” (Ougadougou). Israel is among the top, oh, five foreign policy issues today. So it’s far from nit picking. Sean […]

The Sexual Predators Union

Otherwise known as the United Federation of Teachers: In the last five years in New York City, 97 tenured teachers or school employees have been charged by the Department of Education with sexual misconduct. . . . [T]he unions — believing that they are helping the cause of teachers by being weak on sexual predators […]

Cherokee People, Cherokee Tribe: Elizabeth Warren Can’t Hide Her Lies

Princess Fauxcahantas, the alleged 1/64th Native American, will give a major speech at the Democrat National Convention in North Carolina, ancestral homeland of the Cherokee to whom she implausibly claims kinship. Heap big trouble, Elizabeth Warren: Elizabeth Warren can’t escape her Cherokee heritage controversy even at this gathering of loyal Democrats, as a contingent of […]

While You Wait for Mitt Romney, Say Hello to ‘The Scott Brown of Connecticut’

TAMPA, Florida Gotta run real quick, but not before I introduce you to a longtime reader of The Other McCain, John Henry Decker, now running for Congress in Connecticut’s First District:   JOHN HENRY DECKER for CONGRESS Because He Reads the Right Blogs

Ybor City Scenes

Chef cooks in the window of La Creperia Cafe on 7th Avenue, Ybor City, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 TAMPA, Florida Our accommodations for Convention Week are in the historic Ybor City neighborhood, walking distance from 7th Avenue, the major nightlife scene in Tampa. When I woke up this morning about 7:30 a.m., I decided to […]

Unpopular Former Republican Governor Endorses Unpopular Democrat President

TAMPA, Florida Charlie Crist, who lost the 2010 Senate campaign to Marco Rubio, publishes his endorsement on the editorial page of today’s Tampa Bay Times: As America prepares to pick our president for the next four years — and as Florida prepares once again to play a decisive role — I’m confident that President Barack Obama […]

Nugent Sticking To His Guns

by Smitty Newsmax: Second-Amendment champion and rocker Ted Nugent expressed outrage at the shootings outside New York’s iconic Empire State Building on Friday, but pointed to the tragedy as a failure of gun control. Money quote: “Everybody dead in Aurora was unarmed and helpless. Everybody dead in Milwaukee was unarmed and helpless. Everyone dead at […]

Todd Akin Rapes Missouri GOP

The only question is whether it was a “legitimate” rape: Whereas Rasmussen polling showed Romney leading pro-abortion President Barack Obama at the end of July and having Romney leading the race in the Show Me State all year, now Obama has the lead. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters finds President […]

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