The Other McCain

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

He Always Gets the Good Ones First

Last week, I got an e-mail offering me a review copy of CNBC reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera’s new book, You Know I’m Right: More Prosperity, Less Government. I’d planned to interview the author for a feature article, but guess who beat me to that interview?

‘The Demagogic Bloggers on the Right’

Frequent commenter “Joe” calls our attention to Patterico’s dig at Jeff Goldstein (and unnamed others) in which the prosecutor endeavors to play the Instapundit card: Now that Glenn has said the same thing the “pragmatic” conservatives are saying, will the blogospheric demagogues who seek out Mark Levin’s favor put Glenn Reynolds on the list of […]

No Regrets in Delaware

DOVER, Delaware — Christine O’Donnell did not merely defeat Mike Castle in Tuesday’s Senate primary. She beat the Republican establishment, both nationally and in Delaware, and she beat a veritable army of naysayers who said she couldn’t do it. . . . — “This Changes Everything,” The American Spectator, Sept. 15, 2010 The other day, […]

Heroic Marine Assaults Enemy Stronghold

That stronghold being Maryland’s 5th Congressional District, where House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is pinned down under heavy fire from Republican challenger Charles Lollar: You know the Democrats are in trouble when Steny Hoyer hits the airwaves in his campaign to retain his seat in Congress. Hoyer, whose seat was generously drawn for him by […]

‘So, You Want To Date My Daughter?’

by Smitty ‘No, sir. Maybe we’ll just stick to correspondence.’

Progressive Shout-Out To Feingold: Matthis And Williams

by Smitty (via Insty) Instapundit links Althouse on the laughable Feingold: Watch Russ Feingold confidently assert that he represents Tea Party values. Marvel at the importance of reading the Constitution at an early age and carrying it around all the time. Consider the question whether we should want a millionaire in the Senate. Feingold says […]

Stock Market Inflation: The Rich Get Richer Because the Fed Is Cheating You

One of Instapundit’s savvy readers writes: The latest surge higher in the Dow is folks betting on a Bernanke “put” . . . that the Fed will debase the dollar so much that prices will rise in nominal terms. Stocks aren’t going up in gold or Euro terms. You don’t have to be a “gold […]

Can I Contend With Professor Reynolds for the ‘I Told You So’ Rodeo Buckle?

That tall-walking Tennessee buckaroo rides hard: “On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: ‘What’s most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven’t ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people […]

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