The Other McCain

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Well, Of Course: 14-Year-Old Wisconsin Tea Party Speaker Is Home-Schooler

When I saw this video at Ann Althouse’s blog (hat-tip, Instapundit), I did some quick searching and learned that Tricia Willoughby is a home-schooler and debate champion, one of three daughters of Wisconsin pro-life leaders Bret and Nancy Willoughby: As the father of six home-schooled kids myself, I’m very proud to see Miss Willoughby’s poise as […]

VIDEO: World’s Least Excitable Redneck Captures North Carolina Tornado

Listen to him talking to his wife on the phone: “Oh, half a mile. . . . I’d say it’s coming straight towards me.” And he never sounds even remotely excited about it, much less scared: It is reported that the man with the camera, Steven Hoag, explained his eerie calm thus: “I was a […]

Public Education: Making It Easy for Sexual Predators to Find Their Prey

When he was about 30 and teaching high-school band in Georgia in the late 1980s, Robert Hamberg divorced his wife, Jacque, and married 18-year-old Diane, his former student who had once baby-sat his children. Well, OK. Creepy and unethical, perhaps, but not illegal. However, reasonable people might think that such behavior would have put an […]

Allow Me To Disagree With Sen. DeMint

by Smitty Cubachi has Senator DeMint’s proposal for three terms for members of the House of Representatives and two terms for those in the Senate. Here is a better idea: repeal the 17th Amendment. Let the Senate return to representing the States. The States can treat Senate nominations like the President treats Supreme Court nominations. […]

TODAY: Herman Cain in New Hampshire

He’s one of the headliners at the Americans for Prosperity Tax Day Tea Party at the state capitol in Concord. Then it’s off to Florida where he’ll speak this evening (6:30 p.m. ) at a Tea Party rally in Orlando featuring Marco Rubio. Join the online grassroots army at Citizens for Cain.

‘Avenge the Patriotic Gore That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore’

The state song, “Maryland, My Maryland” (sung to the tune of “O Tannenbaum”) is actually a pro-Confederate anthem written in 1861. The “patriotic gore” was shed by 12 secessionist civilians shot dead by Union troops in Baltimore on April 19 of that year. And as for the song’s lyrics in the ninth verse — “Huzza! […]

Usefully Dealing With Birtherism

by Smitty It’s really cool of The Donald to go all high dudgeon about the birther nonsense this late in the presidential term. Dealing with it in a useful way, in contrast, is Arizona, whose ‘fool us once’ measure goes to the Senate. As with checking for valid ID at a polling place, checking for […]

Fort Sumter 1861: ‘Strike a Blow!’

Today, a most momentous anniversary is the subject of my column at The American Spectator: Visitors to Princeton, New Jersey, may find there the grave of a former New York state judge who died in 1919 at the advanced age of 90. Judge Roger Pryor was not from New Jersey, however, nor was he a […]

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