The Other McCain

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Iowa Conspiracy Theory

Two different people sent me this photo: This photo — showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry talking to Ken Crow — was taken Saturday by Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio News-Express at a Polk County (Iowa) GOP fundraising event in Des Moines. Crow is the president and founder of the Tea Party group that is […]

Indianola ‘Clusterf**k’
UPDATE: Iowa Rally Organizer Trashes Palin to NBC News?
UPDATE: Palin Blames O’Donnell?

UPDATE 4:15 p.m. ET: Holy stinking crap! Tea Party of America President Ken Crow told NBC News, “I had to cancel Ms. O’Donnell” after a conversation with Sarah Palin aides — and is now hopeful Palin will attend the Saturday rally in Indianola. He was told by Palin’s team that he’d have a final answer […]

Thanks for Answered Prayers, and Guess Who’s Going to New Hampshire?

OK, let’s start by saying that I’m waaaay behind on thank-you e-mails to those who’ve hit my tip jar in the past month. I’m going to catch up, I promise, but first, Da Tech Guy has an excellent point about answered prayers: So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What […]

Question: What’s the Difference Between HPV and Whooping Cough?

From a public-health perspective, someone ill with whooping cough could spread this potentially deadly disease to anyone who encounters them, however casually — in the hallways of a public school, for example. So requiring young children to be vaccinated for whooping cough just makes common sense. Human papilloma virus? Not so much. Maybe Cody at […]

The Plural of ‘Anecdote’ …

. . . is “data,” and the data regarding our demographic apocalypse are varied and interesting, if often pathetic. Consider this confessional article from the London Daily Mail by journalist Rachael Lloyd: When I was younger, I always expected to become a mum. I even played with names over the years — Robert for a […]

Is Alec Baldwin a Dangerous Lunatic?

Ace of Spades calls Alec Baldwin a “Polite Company Truther” — just askin’ questions about 9/11 — but I think that’s far too mild considering the gravity of Baldwin’s vile insinuations against the U.S. military. It’s said that Baldwin is eyeing a run for Mayor of New York, but he seems far more likely to end […]

Mixed Signals from Sarah Palin Produce Pure Frustration for the Political Press

Sarah Palin poses for a photo with supporters at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 12. This morning Smitty taunted me via Twitter with a link to Ed Morrissey’s post Monday about the will-she-or-won’t-she question: What’s up with this Sept. 3 Tea Party rally in Indianola, Iowa? Ed makes a good point: Politicians don’t win the […]

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 […]

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