The Other McCain

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Rick Santorum: Praise by Sarah Palin ‘Absolutely Critical’ to His Money Surge

When Sarah Palin singled out Rick Santorum for praise last week during her appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, she got a lot of people’s attention. Danny Yadron of the Wall Street Journal and Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review took notice, as did America’s leading practicioner of Neutral Objective Journalism. Far more important, however, […]

BULLETIN: Earthquake Hits Vanuatu as Santorum Vows on National TV: ‘We’re Going to Surprise a Lot of People’ in Iowa

Geologists, eschatologists and political observers took note Thursday when an earthquake struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu at the exact time that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said during an appearance on a U.S. television network that he would do “very, very well” in next month’s Iowa caucuses. “It’s coming our way,” the […]

It’s Morning in Vanuatu Again

Is Perry Toast? — New York Times PERRY DEBATE DISASTER: This Is The Moment That Officially Killed His Campaign — For Good — Business Insider Ford. Quayle. Stockdale. Now, Poor Rick Perry — The Atlantic Cain escapes serious damage in Republican debate — Reuters Kraushaar won’t do news conference without other accusers — CNN Investigator: […]

Good-Bye, Vanuatu? Perry-Linked Witness Predicts: If Cain Accuser Speaks, ‘Probably Be the End of His Campaign”

Shoes are now dropping faster than I can keep track: Oklahoma political consultant Chris Wilson says if the woman behind the reported sexual harassment complaint against GOP Presidential hopeful Herman Cain is allowed to speak publicly, it’ll be the end of Cain’s run for the White House. Interviewed today on KTOK’s Mullins in the Morning, […]

Cain Seeks to Satisfy Foreign Policy Snobs

Alex Pappas and Jamie Weinstein of the Daily Caller report: Almost every day, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is handed a one-page briefing from his chief foreign policy adviser on news from around the world. It’s one of several things his campaign says the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, who has never held elective office before, […]

OK, It’s $1,179 One-Way to Auckland …

. . . if I book now for an early February departure from Dulles International, and the connection via Air New Zealand to Bauerfield International Airport in Porta Vila, Vanuatu, would be another $400, so that my basic cost to get there would be roughly $1,600. Expedia offers a low rate of $147 a night […]

From the Future Ambassador to Vanuatu

Feb. 17, 2010: When we first met by accident in an elevator at CPAC, Marco Rubio said to me, ‘Hey, your camera’s pink.’ After the events of this afternoon, I e-mailed my American Spectator story (about Marco Rubio denying my Thursday exclusive) to a fellow journalist. He replied, “My guess is that you were right […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk to the Herman Cain Presidential Campaign

To: Mark J. Block, J.D. Gordon Re: U.S. Policy, South Pacific Region The island republic of Vanuatu will, I think, play a key role in the Cain administration’s foreign policy vis-a-vis the South Pacific. While the Republican Party Establishment has long ignored Vanuatu, my years of study of their culture, history, geography and economy have convinced […]

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