The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Monday: Prairie Rose

— compiled by Wombat-socho Bring The Heat, Bring The Stupid kicks off the week with a selection of Megyn Kelly pix and also Sasha Alexander. The Rio Norte Line has Jessica-Jane Clement up his sleeve, Threedonia offers a fascinating combination of unapologetic rich gals Salma Hayek and Katy Perry, and the POH Diaries follow up […]

How Many Ounces of Gold Does It
Take to Buy a House in Baltimore?

Answer: Fewer today than it did yesterday! Gold prices have been on a tear lately, topping a fresh record high above $1,900 an ounce late Monday — just two weeks after rising above $1,800. . . . Gold prices rose 2.4% during the regular trading session to settle at $1,891.90 an ounce. In after hours […]

Paul Ryan Nixes 2012 White House Bid

The Weekly Standard has been one of the biggest cheerleaders for this idea, and now breaks the news to the readers it has been hyping up: Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan has decided for a final time that he will not run for president in 2012, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned. Ryan, who began seriously considering […]

‘Unexpectedly’: Voters in NY-9 District Realize President Obama Is a ‘Moron’

By now you’ve noticed how bad economic news in the Obama age is always “unexpected” according to liberal reporters. Now the failure of Obamanomics seems to be intruding into the political sphere: Of all the places to hear fulminations against President Obama, one of the least expected is the corner of 71st Avenue and Queens […]

T-Paw and ‘Robust Internationalism’

What to make of this article by Jamie M. Fly in Foreign Policy? The departure of Gov. Tim Pawlenty from the race for the Republican nomination for president deprives national security conservatives of one of the field’s leading champions of a robust internationalism. Despite the ludicrous rants of Rep. Ron Paul and efforts by some Tea […]

Because The Olympics Is All About Athletes And Competition, Right?

by Smitty The Puffington Host: The U.S. Olympic Committee has notified all interested cities that it will not submit a bid to host the 2020 Olympics, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Monday. Chicago, New York and Dallas were among those that had expressed interest in putting forth a bid […]

Herman Cain on Janeane Garofalo: ‘I Wanted to Send Her a Thank You Note’

Left-wing actress Janeane Garofalo told Keith Olberman last week that she thinks someone in the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy — she named Karl Rove, Grover Norquist and the Koch brothers as likely suspects — must be secretly paying Herman Cain to run for president. At the opening of Cain’s new campaign headquarters in Manchester, N.H., Da […]

DNC Quotes Governor Asterisk

During my Iowa trip, I began referring to Jon Huntsman as “Governor Asterisk,” because his support in the GOP primaries is somewhere between “too small to be measured” and utterly non-existent. He is an irrelevant footnote to the campaign, a spokesman for no meaningful Republican constituency, who clutters up the stage at debates and gets vastly more […]

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