The Other McCain

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

Democrat Sex Scandal: Teen Accuses Oregon Congressman David Wu

Several of Democrat Rep. David Wu’s staffers quit his re-election campaign last year amid reports that the Oregon congressman was behaving erratically. Now a teenage girl — a recent high-school graduate who is the daughter of one of the congressman’s friends — has reportedly said the 56-year-old Wu molested her last year: A distraught young woman called […]

Now That She Has Finally Turned 16, It’s Legal for Her to Get Married in Nevada

Unlike Courtney Stodden, however, there are no creepy 51-year-old Hollywood types trying to get jiggy with 16-year-old Mycah Emerson. She’s not a singer or actress, and I doubt she could get parental permission for marriage. However, Russ Emerson says he’s planning to take Mycah to the DMV to get her driver’s license. What could possibly […]

‘Hey, TSA, Is That My iPad in Your Pants, or Are You Just Happy to Frisk Me?’

Damn that VodkaPundit: He got to this joke headline before I did. Great drunks think alike, I guess. But enough about us — let’s talk about the government hiring criminal thugs to rip off innocent taxpayers: The Broward [County, Fla.] Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months […]

SHOCKING REPUBLICAN SCANDAL!

EXCLUSIVE — Major news organizations were scrambling Thursday to confirm allegations of one of the most bizarre scandals in the entire history of the Republican Party, sources say. “It’s incredible,” one GOP operative said, describing the desperate attempts by investigative journalists to confirm the shocking rumors that began swirling via e-mail about a sordid fundraising […]

Republican Media Slut Tells All

When I was covering the 2006 GOP primary campaign for Georgia lieutenant governor, I was dumbfounded by the decision of Ralph Reed to hire Lisa Baron as his press secretary. Baron had a notoriously bad reputation among Republican operatives, and why Reed would hire her — in a state where social conservatives dominated the GOP […]

Say It Ain’t So, Alcee!

Rep. Alcee Hastings, the Florida Democrat who was elected to Congress after being impeached for bribery as a federal judge, has been accused of sexual harassment: A congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings sexually harassed a member of his staff, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation […]

Ladd’s Ad Gets Results

And by “results,” I don’t mean merely a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer for the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. No, as I report at The American Spectator: Tuesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee debuted a new “Hahn Got Me Out” Web site telling 36th District voters: “Janice Hahn helped steer taxpayer money to support violent, […]

Why Is David Epstein Still a Columbia University Professor After Incest Plea?

Jackie Carrero and Mikey Zhong of the Columbia Spectator note that David Epstein is still employed as a political science professor at Columbia University, even after he copped a guilty plea (to the misdemeanor of “attempted incest”) in connection with a case that made headlines in December. Epstein, who had used his blog at Huffington Post to attack […]

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