The Other McCain

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

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Eyewitness to History in Florida

Newt Gingrich in Fort Myers, Florida, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 “Well, it’s past 2:30 now, so I’d better get over to the airport. Let’s hope the Gingrich people don’t sic the cops on me.” — Robert Stacy McCain, Jan. 30, 2012 How many readers remember the day I covered a Newt Gingrich rally in Fort […]

LIVE AT FIVE – WEAKENED EDITION

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Santorum And His Backers Huddle On Path Forward Is Pennsylvania his do or die battle? Poll On Trayvon Martin Shooting Shows Racial Divide Wildly different perceptions of what happened and what should happen Japanese Ghost Ship Sunk By Coast Guard Derelict fishing boat adrift in North Pacific since last […]

MA-4 Blogger Call With Sean Bielat

by Smitty How do you not support a candidate with a battleship on his masthead, I ask you? I took notes, and kibitzed way too much for somebody not even in Massachusetts. The following is an unofficial, qualitative account of the call. I took the liberty of re-arranging the Q&A sequence for better flow. Sean […]

Rule 5 Thursday

— compiled by Wombat-socho I went to Anime Detour this past weekend and all I got* was a nasty flu virus. That’s why this is the latest of all late Rule 5 roundups. So instead of combining two weeks’ worth of links into one indigestible lump, here’s a mid-week mess of Stuff. Some of it […]

They Know Which Side They’re On

Pornographers and abortionists: A porn studio in California has selected a pro-abortion research group formerly affiliated with the Planned Parenthood abortion business as a recipient of its donation. Girlfriends Films operates a monthly charity program that has made donations to legitimate community groups but also to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Now, the pro-abortion Guttmacher […]

The Last Nail in Newt’s Coffin
UPDATE: Conservative Leaders Huddle With Santorum, Seek Deal With Newt

Creditors will get pennies on the dollar: Newt Gingrich’s health-care think tank has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The Center for Health Transformation, which has offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and St. Louis, plans to liquidate its assets, according to a filing Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Atlanta. . . . The center listed […]

Framing the Narrative: Using Evangelicals as Hook for MSM ‘Mormon Mitt’ Meme

“You watch, they’re going to throw the Mormon church at him like you can’t believe.” — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, April 3 Just a quick follow-up on last night’s post about the the predictable emergence of an anti-Mormon message in the MSM, which they held back until they thought Mitt Romney was really “inevitable”: A lot of […]

Check Your Water Wings

by Smitty The National Debt Road Trip is about to get underway, in the nautical sense: Update: linked at

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