The Other McCain

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

SARAH PALIN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

MANCHESTER, N.H. UPDATE: Here’s a shot where you can see the crowd size (click to enlarge): My rough eyeball estimate was about 800 people. There were lots of chants of “Run, Sarah, run!” BTW, this photo nearly got me the bum’s rush from security. I went up the stair backstage to get the photo and […]

Expertise Debased Is Expertise Rejected

by Smitty Over at Ars Technica, John Timmer gives us a variation on argument from authority for why we are supposed to respect that one guy who was the ambassador to Bulungi or someplace: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” With that tweet, Jon Huntsman […]

VIDEOS: Pro-Romney, Anti-Romney and Mrs. Romney at Concord, N.H., Tea Party

Yesterday’s Tea Party Express event in Concord, N.H., featured every possible perspective on Mitt Romney. Because of connectivity issues, I only uploaded the photos last night. Now here come the videos, beginning with freshman Republican state Rep. Susan DeLemus, who is definitely anti-Romney: The Tea Party Express buses arrive for the rally at Rollins Party: Tea […]

MITT-MANIA in New Hampshire!

CONCORD, N.H. Mitt Romney headlined tonight’s Tea Party Express rally and here are just a couple of photos: I’ll have much, much more in a few moments. UPDATE: More photos: Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer is interviewed by Da Tech Guy. Dave Weigel interviews some local Tea Party activists who showed up to protest against Romney.  […]

Palin’s Pressure on Perry

Writing about yesterday’s Sarah Palin rally in Iowa, I mentioned the theory that “Palin may enter the 2012 field because of her dissatisfaction with Perry’s campaign.” I resisted the temptation to examine the theory at length, because I wanted to discuss something I’d seen earlier — Dan Riehl’s discussion of the Palin-Perry issue: For her […]

People Who Like Sarah Palin Liked Her Iowa Speech; Ace of Spades, Not So Much

Sarah Palin gave her big speech in Indianola while I was at lunch today with Da Tech Guy. However, I got a sort of live feed on the event via a series of text messages from Tea Party activist Tiffiny Ruegner. “No doubt she’s campaigning,” Tiffiny texted, and at the end: “Finished. Didn’t announce. . . […]

Fear and Loathing at Union Station

UNION STATION, Washington, D.C. My son-in-law dropped me off here about 1 a.m. My train leaves at 3:15 a.m.  So I’ve got a few minutes to do a quick blog post before I board the train and head off to Worcester and thence to New Hampshire. We’re trying to get Dan Collins of Piece of […]

New Hampshire, Here I Come!

The AmTrak ticket from Union Station in D.C. to Worcester, Mass., was $182. My son-in-law is coming to pick me up in a few minutes to take me to the station. Pete Da Tech Guy will pick me up Saturday afternoon in Worcester. Pete and I will cover Mitt Romney’s Sunday appearance at a Tea […]

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