The Other McCain

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

Democrats Draw the Line, Will Shut Down Government Over Planned Parenthood

In her 2006 book, Godless, Ann Coulter called abortion “the holiest sacrament” in the religion of liberalism. Democrats would rather shut down the federal government than de-fund Planned Parenthood: Congressional budget negotiations broke up before dawn on Friday without an agreement, putting the government on a path to a shutdown when financing for federal agencies […]

Sarah Steelman vs. Claire McCaskill?

While surfing the Web, I saw an ad for this Republican candidate — former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman — who has made an early start campaigning against Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill for 2012: You can contribute at Steelman’s Web site.

Chuck You, Schumer

Jay Homnick of The American Spectator contemplates the shamelessly sleazy senior senator from New York: By a weird quirk of fate, I was present as a sixteen-year-old boy at a local meeting of well-meaning Jews who were gulled into making him State Senator for the neighborhood where I grew up, in Brooklyn, New York. The […]

Amity Shlaes for Senate?

Adam Brickley has an interesting suggestion for New York Republicans: The GOP needs a high profile opponent who will force Gillibrand to explain herself – and given her record we don’t think she can. The only question is who can do this while raising the money to compete in expensive New York Our suggestion is […]

Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus Will Marry Former Staffer Melodee Hanes

If you’re a regular dude looking for a date, you go to a bar or use an online dating service. If you’re a United States Senator, you just get the taxpayers to hire you a girlfriend: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says he plans to marry his girlfriend and former director of his state offices. Baucus […]

START II: Another GOP Cave-In?

The Lonely Conservative: Yesterday the Senate moved one step closer to approving the New START treaty President Obama has been pushing for. It is expected that full approval will pass the Senate today and the deal with the Russians will be ratified shortly. . . . Why don’t I feel any safer? . . . […]

‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Repeal Easily Clears Cloture Vote in Senate
UPDATE: Final Vote 65-31 for Repeal

Only 33 “no” votes on the cloture roll call because, as everyone knows, Senate Republicans are all a bunch of closet cases. So we now approach the day when uniformed service personnel — including ranking officers — will march in the Gay Pride Parade next to Dykes on Bikes and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. […]

Senate Kills DREAM Act

Encouraging news everywhere nowadays: The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn’t pay off for immigration activists. The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning, effectively killing the bill this year and shutting the door […]

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