The Other McCain

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

New Hampshire, Here I Come!

The AmTrak ticket from Union Station in D.C. to Worcester, Mass., was $182. My son-in-law is coming to pick me up in a few minutes to take me to the station. Pete Da Tech Guy will pick me up Saturday afternoon in Worcester. Pete and I will cover Mitt Romney’s Sunday appearance at a Tea […]

Radtke: Red State’s Erick Erickson Must ‘Set the Record Straight’ After Making ‘Reprehensible’ Accusations Against Her

Conservative blogger Erick Erickson has “propagated a lie” against Virginia Senate candidate Jamie Radtke, she said, insisting that the Red State managing editor must make a “full retraction” and “set the record straight.” “Erick Erickson has created this situation, where he’s called me a drunk and a liar,” Radtke told me in an exclusive interview, […]

Iowa Conspiracy Theory

Two different people sent me this photo: This photo — showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry talking to Ken Crow — was taken Saturday by Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio News-Express at a Polk County (Iowa) GOP fundraising event in Des Moines. Crow is the president and founder of the Tea Party group that is […]

Indianola ‘Clusterf**k’
UPDATE: Iowa Rally Organizer Trashes Palin to NBC News?
UPDATE: Palin Blames O’Donnell?

UPDATE 4:15 p.m. ET: Holy stinking crap! Tea Party of America President Ken Crow told NBC News, “I had to cancel Ms. O’Donnell” after a conversation with Sarah Palin aides — and is now hopeful Palin will attend the Saturday rally in Indianola. He was told by Palin’s team that he’d have a final answer […]

Bad Liberal Policy in California

Leave it to those crazy left-wingers in California to do something so completely stupid, it’s hard to believe anyone would support it. According to one conservative blogger, staff for “the bill’s sponsor, California Democratic Assemblywoman Toni Atkins” — what a radical kook! — have confirmed “that the legislation had been voted out of the state Senate […]

Talking Economics to Democrats Is Probably a Waste of Breath, But …

. . . Texas congressional candidate Roger Williams gave it a try: (Via Barbara Espinosa’s American Freedom.) ROGER WILLIAMS FOR U.S. CONGRESS He Knows How to Talk to Democrats

‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Money Man Accused in Insurance Fraud Scheme

Hisham Elzanaty A story you will never see covered on the nightly network news: Allstate has become the latest insurance company to accuse Hisham Elzanaty, one of the money men behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque development, of orchestrating a “highly developed and sophisticated kickback scheme” that allegedly reaped more than $5 million for Elzanaty […]

Surprise: Philly ‘Sanctuary’ Advocates Don’t Like Reporting Illegals to Feds

Mike in Ardmore tipped me to this story from Philadephia: Outside the Immigration Court building at 9th and Market Streets on Wednesday, about 100 demonstrators knelt on the sidewalk in memory of recent deportees, whose names they wore on string-and-paper necklaces. It was just one stop in a mile-long walk to increase public pressure on […]

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