The Other McCain

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

MSM, GOP and NY23

In an article about the Tea Party movement, the Los Angeles Times re-writes the history of Doug Hoffman’s campaign last year in New York’s 23rd District: Many Republican Party leaders have welcomed [Tea Party involvement in local GOP organizations], particularly because they worried that the energy driving the tea party movement might create a third party […]

AL2: Rick Barber Update

Press release from the Barber congressional campaign: MONTGOMERY – On Tuesday evening, February 16th at 6:30 PM in Pinckard, Alabama, 2nd Congressional District candidate Rick Barber will speak to his largest group of supporters to date. Hundreds are expected to gather at Brown Products headquarters in Pinckard. Brown Products is a small business owned and […]

Rhode Island Red? Patrick Kennedy Announces He Won’t Seek Re-Election

He once called Scott Brown’s Senate campaign a “joke,” but now the Brown Revolution has driven Teddy’s son from Congress: A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress. . . . The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a […]

VIDEO: GOP Candidate Rick Barber Talks Tea Parties, Pool Halls and Blue Dogs

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Pubs and alehouses like Tondee’s Tavern served as meeting places where colonists planned the American Revolution, and that tradition is being carried on by Tea Party activists in Alabama. Every Tuesday is “Patriot Night” at Montgomery’s Deja Vu Billiards, owned by Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber: By the way, describing Barber as a […]

Cue Your TiVo Now: Allen West Will Be On ‘Fox & Friends’ Monday

According to the press release, the Iraq war hero and FL22 congressional candidate will be on shortly after 6 a.m. ET Monday. I also understand from Rhonda Lee Welsch (whom I profiled for the American Spectator in December) that Lt. Col. West (whom I profiled for the American Spectator in June 2008) will be a speaker […]

Politics and Mardi Gras Beads in ‘Bama: Rick Barber Campaigns in Millbrook

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Bailey Barber greeted us at the front door of her family home Saturday morning with ecstatic news. “We’re going to a parade,” announced the 6-year-old daughter of Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber. Retail politics requires a relentless press-the-flesh effort on the part of the candidate, and Barber hit the streets Saturday. After […]

VIDEO: ‘Brown Revolution’ Nationwide

Watch this video from ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “The Scott Heard ‘Round the World” has inspired grassroots activists nationwide — John Fund has a feature article about Brown today — and as I explain at The American Spectator: One of the volunteers on Brown’s campaign is now running for Congress in Alabama, and emulating the “straight talk, no BS” theme. […]

Doug Hoffman Needs Your Help

Mr. K at Jumping in Pools reminds us that the breakthrough Scott Brown made in Massachusetts was, to some extent, made possible by Doug Hoffman’s campaign last year in New York that fell painfully short of victory: [Democrat] Bill Owens would violate four campaign promises in his inaugural 24 hours of work, outraging citizens and […]

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