The Other McCain

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

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: […]

‘The New School of Journalism’

“While I was at Newsweek (1950-1980), the mainstream media began recruiting talented leftist writers from the so-called underground press in the 60s, in the somewhat naïve belief that they could be co-opted. Instead, they went on doing their thing, which was to twist the news to cast the U.S. in the role of villain on […]

Can the Cain Campaign Stand the Strain?

Our young friend Cody is calling for Herman Cain to fire Mark Block, which I seriously doubt is going to happen. As I said the other day, victory ultimately becomes its own argument and as long as the campaign is winning — ahead in the polls and kicking ass in fundraising — Mark Block will remain […]

Hating Is Easier Than Understanding

From my American Spectator column today: Documented examples of anti-Semitism among the “Occupy” crowds were sufficiently numerous to prompt the Emergency Committee for Israel to release an online ad questioning support for the demonstrations voiced by Democratic Party leaders, including President Obama, who said the movement “expresses the frustrations that the American people feel.” Obama’s […]

The Washington Post Is Not Objective, According to Soros-Funded Group

The top headline at Memeorandum: Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards In Attack on Social Security This article is from a shady left-wing group, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, whose funders include George Soros’s Open Society Institute, as well as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations among other tax-free “philanthropies.” The target of the CEPR’s wrath is […]

Herman Cain: ‘The Real Deal’

Herman Cain answers reporters’ questions Tuesday night in the ‘spin room’ at the Sands Expo and Convention Center (Photo: Robert Stacy McCain) LAS VEGAS, Nevada This morning, I remember the first time I ever heard Herman Cain’s name: My brother Kirby called me from Georgia and said, “Have you heard about this guy? . . […]

‘… Significantly Less Substantive, in Terms of His Words, Than He Appears …’

by Smitty Quin Hillyer not gripped by the Mitt: The main thing I learned is that Mitt Romney is significantly less substantive, in terms of his words, than he appears to be when you watch him live. Or Michelle: When Bachmann isn’t as well versed on an issue, it really shows, much to her detriment. […]

‘Troubling Similarities’: Politico Reporter Kendra Marr Fired for Plagiarism

A New York Times reporter raised hell when he saw his work recycled at Politico: Late in the evening of Wednesday, October 12, the writer of a  piece about transportation policy published in the New York Times e-mailed one of our senior editors about potential problems with a piece on the same subject  that was published in POLITICO. Early Thursday […]

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