The Other McCain

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

Sour Grapes for Mid-Term Losers

Victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan, they say. Another difference is that only defeat requires a scapegoat: “The Tea Party movement really is quite a bit different than the old Republican conservative movement,” [Delaware loser Mike] Castle said. “They’re more than willing to take out Republicans, call us Republicans in name only, […]

BREAKING: Arizona Republican Lawmaker Hospitalized After Attack

Evidently he surprised a burglar: Police in Casa Grande say an Arizona legislator was sent to the hospital after being beaten and knocked unconscious. Mike Keck of the Casa Grande Police Department says Rep. Frank Pratt was found by his wife about 8 p.m. Saturday at his business, Pratt Pools in Casa Grande. Keck says […]

RNC: Saul Anuzis Under Fire

The rough stuff continues in the contest for the Republican National Committee chairmanship. A week ago, Wisconsin  GOP chair Reince Priebus got blasted for his law firm’s stimulus-pimping business. Now it appears that Michigan’s Saul Anuzis is in the oppo-research crosshairs.  An anonymous e-mail calls attention to tax liens against B & S Telecom (PDF documents […]

White Christmas: Three Inches of Snow Global Warming Forecast for Atlanta

Isn’t climate change wonderful? A strong storm system churning its way through the desert Southwest early Thursday will bring metro Atlanta a good chance for a white Christmas, with accumulating snow possible as far south as the Columbus and Macon areas, forecasters said. . . . “Across the north Georgia mountains, the precipitation should fall […]

Save the Bats!

They’re not cute and cuddly like baby seals, but we don’t want to kill them, do we? Conservationists filed suit Wednesday to block the start of Maryland’s first industrial wind project, contending the turbines built atop the state’s highest mountain in Garrett County threaten to harm federally protected rare bats. Making good on a threat […]

Pensions, Bankruptcy . . . and Racism?

Instapundit links to a New York Times story about the failure of the pension plan for municipal workers in Pritchard, Alabama. One thing that intrigued me about the story is something New York Times reporters Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh barely brushed up against, the elephant in the room, race: The situation in Prichard […]

Doing a ‘Macaca’ on Haley Barbour

If you’re not from the Deep South and don’t personally know people who lived through the civil rights era — or if you’re a liberal just trying to smear a conservative Republican from Mississippi — it seems perfectly fair to play the kind of dirty game that Matthew Yglesias is playing with Haley Barbour. Yglesias […]

Did Obama’s Election Cause Outbreak of Racist Grafitti in Philadelphia?

That’s what is claimed by an attorney representing plaintiffs in a civil-rights lawsuit: Several black men who were contracted to work at the Sunoco refinery in Philadelphia were forced to clean up racial slurs written about them on bathroom walls, the men claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit. . . . The six plaintiffs, […]

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