The Other McCain

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NY-26 UPDATE: Are 13 Percent of Voters Really Going to Vote for Crazy Jack?

On the eve of Tuesday’s special election, the most recent polls in New York’s 26th District are a good-news/bad-news tale: The good news is that support for fake “Tea Party” candidate Crazy Jack Davis has been cut in half since a month ago, when Davis — who ran as a Democrat in 2004, 2006 and […]

Tornado Destroys Joplin, Missouri

Via Associated Press, here’s video of the killer storm: At least 90 people are confirmed dead and a news photographer who visited Joplin said: “The Home Depot is leveled. . . The Wal-Mart is destroyed. Gas stations, buildings. Everywhere I could see was either heavily damaged or completely destroyed.” The headlines at the Drudge Report […]

Prosser Wins in Wisconsin

Remember when Democrats and unions claimed that Scott Walker’s agenda was electoral doom for the GOP? Not so much: A grueling statewide recount concluded Friday that Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg to win another 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a race driven by the debate over Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s […]

2012 Candidates Not Named ‘Herman’

It’s kinda been all-Herman, all-the-time here lately, so let me update you on what’s going on with the non-Hermans: Democrats are running attack ads against Mitt Romney in South Carolina. Exactly why Democrats would be monkeying around in a GOP primary is an interesting question. (Hat-tip: Ann Althouse.) America braces for the onset of T-Paw Fever: Tim […]

Will Folks: My Sacred Honor Compels Me to Claim That Nikki Haley (Whom I Once Shagged) Visited a Strip Club in 2009

The Palmetto State’s most gallant Republican political consultant — the Deuce Bigalo of the Blogosphere™ — figured his reputation wasn’t quite sleazy enough: On Wednesday evening – as part of a separate investigation into the nocturnal habits of S.C. First Gentleman Michael Haley – our founding editor received a call from an exotic dancer in Myrtle […]

Schwarzenegger, Babies and Bathwater

Image by Irony Curtain, IOwnTheWorld.com “Arnold Schwarzenegger has disappointed all of those who put their faith in males, Republicans, politicians or all any combination of the above.” — Red State Gal, Death by 10,000 Papercuts That’s rather over-generalizing, isn’t it? Surely, somewhere in America, there must be at least one male Republican politician who hasn’t spawned […]

NY-26 Update: Jane Corwin Ad

Responding to Democrat attacks, the GOP is really trying to blur the Medicare/Social Security issue: The most effective part of this ad is Corwin’s appearance at the end. She just seems nice, doesn’t she? Dave Weigel is up in the district covering the campaign, and has a report on Wednesday’s debate between Corwin and Democrat […]

Strauss-Kahn Resigns

IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn submitted his resignation last night, “with infinite sadness.” It’s hard to beat “infinite,” but the sadness might get worse if Strauss-Kahn’s accuser turns out to be HIV-positive. Joseph A. Harriss, Paris correspondent for The American Spectator, raises an interesting question about Strauss-Kahn: Strauss-Kahn’s personal Götterdämmerung on Saturday came with stunning swiftness. […]

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