The Other McCain

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

PA-12: Gold Star Mom for Tim Burns

Just got off the phone with Angela Lash, outreach coordinator for Tim Burns, who tells me that Arizona “Gold Star Mom” Debbie Lee — whose Navy SEAL son was killed Iraq — has been going door-to-door campaigning with the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 12th District. “I was on the campaign trail this weekend with Tim Burns […]

Blame Glenn Beck

A liberal warns us that extremist right-wing racists are taking over . . . Israel! [T]he Netanyahu coalition is the product of frightening, long-term trends in Israeli society: an ultra-Orthodox population that is increasing dramatically, a settler movement that is growing more radical and more entrenched in the Israeli bureaucracy and army, and a Russian […]

Q: ‘How Many Right-Wing Extremists Currently Reside at This Address?’

Really, these Census questions have become so intrusive . . . The lady from the Census Bureau stopped by yesterday, thanks to my personal effort to stimulate employment: Don’t fill out the mail-in form, so they have to send an enumerator to the house. Your tax dollars at work — temporarily, at least. Despite the […]

Despite Re-Tweet by Alyssa Milano, Mickey Kaus Still Senate ‘Long Shot’

Ever since Alyssa re-Tweeted him Oct. 28, Mickey Kaus has been the envy of bloggers everywhere (or at least, bloggers around here). However, that kind of New Media energy — dude, she’s got more than 830,000 followers — has not yet developed into an electoral tsunami: In a year when Tea Party activists and the GOP […]

National Funk Congress Targets Academia

by Smitty The Huffington Post has the scoop on the Atomic Dog and the sudden desire to have an online University of Funk. Political endeavors have provided insufficient entertainment, apparently. For the hygenically challenged, this has nothing to do with extended time periods between showers. Rather, something like this:

PA-12: Burns 48%, Critz 47%

Absolute dead heat in the final pre-election poll by the Democrat-run firm Public Policy Polling. You absolutely couldn’t hope for better news on the verge of Tuesday’s special election in Jack Murtha’s old district. Your money quote: [T]hose planning to vote on Tuesday report having voted for John McCain by 5 points in 2008, compared to […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Rule 5 Sunday arrives, somewhat tardy, as I was off galavanting. But this is not why you read this post, in any case. Lena Horne has passed. Frazetta, too, with fewer tributes. Ed Driscoll led off the remembrance. Another Black Conservative was next, with the first “Stormy Weather” embed. Paco Enterprises, sans surprises, […]

Meet a Tory from Bromsgrove

The very phrase “Tory from Bromsgrove” probably calls to mind a portly old chap with a derby, a mustache, a bumbershoot and perhaps a monocle. Say hello to Sajid Javid: When people talk about political demographics as if speaking of inexorable historical forces, they neglect the infinite capacity of the Left to screw things up […]

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