The Other McCain

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

‘This Is Alabama. We Speak English.’

And the street signs are also in English. So why is the state giving drivers’ license exams in 12 different languages? Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James asks the common-sense question: Rachel Maddow says the ad “strikes me as just plain mean,” and lefty-blogger Heather at Crooks & Liars says, “This guy is about as subtle […]

‘Someone Needs to Pay’

Meet Angel Adams, 37-year-old single mother of 15: The lifelong Tampa resident said she wants justice from the Hillsborough County sheriff’s child protection team that took her kids away from her two years ago and from Hillsborough Kids Inc., which got her kids back six months ago. “What do I do?” she said earlier in the […]

The Surprise Return of Blago-Gate!

Incomplete redaction of a Chicago subpoena for the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial reveals some unseemly — and perhaps criminal — actions by Team Obama: Obama may have lied about conversations with convicted fraudster Tony Rezko . . . Obama may have overtly recommended Valerie Jarret for his Senate seat . . . A supporter of […]

Kentucky Pro-Lifers Accuse Rand Paul of Faking His ‘100%’ Pro-Life Credentials

Press release from Kentucky Right to Life: In a recent fund raising letter from the Rand Paul U.S. Senate Campaign, Rand Paul claims that he “scored 100%” on the Kentucky Right to Life PAC pro-life survey. Rand Paul filled out, signed and faxed the KRLA PAC survey to the KRLA PAC office on February 11th […]

Republicans for Arlen Specter*

* – Offer expires 5/19/2010. Attention, members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: We’ve got an unanticipated problem developing in Pennsylvania, where the long-awaited Arlen Specter meltdown appears to be beginning prematurely. A recent poll by Rasmussen shows that Joe Sestak has now closed to within the margin of error in his Democratic primary race with […]

Take a Chill Pill, Phil

My friend Philip Klein of the American Spectator goes into Eeyore mode over the prospect of a three-way Florida Senate election with “independent” Charlie Crist: Yet, while a Quinnipiac poll taken last week found that he trailed Marco Rubio by 23 points in the primary, it also found that in a general election, Crist leads […]

If Marco Rubio Is Stalin, Who Is Crist? And What Does That Make John Cornyn?

Chris Matthews gets another thrill up his leg: Republican purge. Arlen Specter is out. John McCain, Charlie Crist and Robert Bennett are all being threatened on the right. Is this anyway to run a party or run it into the ground? . . . [W]hat happens to Republicans who don’t march to the right wing […]

Wasting Too Many Words

Daniel Larison titles a post “McCain’s Integrity” — meaning Cousin John — and then expends more than 900 words analyzing something that doesn’t exist. John McCain has no integrity. Period. Update: (Smitty) Your attention is drawn to American Freedom’s “John McCain’s Whimsical World of Conservatism 2005-2007” for a fumble-by-fumble description of why we need fewer […]

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