The Other McCain

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

Like Ronald Reagan Said

Remember this guy from the Doug Hoffman NY-23 campaign? Yates Walker? Sound familiar? Perhaps you remember him from an article in the The American Spectator: Yates Walker ate breakfast in the Blue Moon Café on Main Street in Saranac Lake, New York, on the morning of November 4, and delivered an after-action report on the battle that […]

Barber Makes AL-2 GOP Runoff

Tea Party candidate Rick Barber was outspent 7-to-1 by the GOP establishment’s choice Martha Roby in Alabama’s 2nd District Republican primary but was able to force the Montgomery councilwoman to a runoff. Roby got 48 percent in Tuesday’s primary — less than the majority needed to avoid a July 13 runoff — while Barber got 28 percent […]

VIDEO: A Mosque at Ground Zero?

Another great ad from Alabama, this one from 2nd District Republican candidate Rick Barber: Excerpts: “We weren’t attack by a nation. We weren’t attacked by ‘terror.’ We were attacked by Islamic jihadists. . . . Jihad threatens our freedom, our families and our way of life. . . . Islamic jihadist pose a clear and […]

VIDEO: Les Phillip Swore to Defend Against ‘Enemies, Foreign and Domestic’

Wonder who he has in mind on the domestic front? Here’s the Republican candidate for Congress in Alabama’s Fifth District: Marc Ambinder predicts that this will be the political ad everyone will be talking about this week. The transcript: This is the story of two young men. One fell in with left wing radicals. The […]

VIDEO: Best Ad Ever Produced for Agriculture Commissioner

Ag Commissioner? Who ever heard of a great ad for Ag Commissioner? Welcome to Alabama, son! And say hello to Dale Peterson: The Winchester sort of makes it, huh? UPDATE: Adrien Chen at Gawker can’t bring himself to give me a hat-tip for being the first to blog about “The Most American Thing Ever Made,” […]

Tim James And The Mother Tongue

by Smitty (via Forward Focus Media) Disclaimer: I have no really strong opinion on language. For some, English is a Very Big Deal. Given that what we speak is a collision of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon, plus anything else that sounded good and didn’t move fast enough, I have trouble sorting the language issue very […]

Alabama Update: When Will Tim James Send a Dozen Roses to Rachel Maddow?

In mid-April, polls indicated Tim James was in third place in the Alabama gubernatorial primary. Then he released his “This Is Alabama, We Speak English” TV ad, Rachel Maddow went berserk, the New York Times condemned James and . . . Well, did I mention that this an Alabama Republican primary? James garnered 26 percent of the […]

Alabama AG Troy King Acts Tough On Crime. Corruption? Not So Much

Nice “America’s Most Wanted” imitation here by the suspiciously gambling-friendly attorney general Troy King: Unlike John Walsh, however, Troy King has been the target of a federal investigation, and this new TV ad raises a question: Where did those cop cars come from? If those are Alabama police cars . . . well, the state law is quite clear on such […]

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