The Other McCain

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Pawlenty’s Drunk Campaign Staffer Arrested for Trespassing in Iowa

Ben Foster, 24, was arrested after he tried to break into a house in Ankeny, Iowa, at 3 a.m. A staffer for the Tim Pawlenty presidential exploratory campaign, Foster was evidently so drunk he mistook the house in Ankeny for the place he was staying — 10 miles away in Johnston, Iowa. Both towns are suburbs […]

Fight Over GOP 2012 Primary Calendar

The 2012 Republican National Convention is scheduled for Tampa, but Florida is trying to monkey around and move up its primary, prompting at least two state chairmen to threaten to strip Florida of the convention. Ben Smith at Politico: South Carolina Republican Party Chair Karen Floyd today brought into the open the simmering tensions between […]

Define ‘Hate Group’

Also, define “secretly funneled,” because I’m having a little trouble with Josh Dorner’s Think Progress headline: Newt Gingrich Secretly Funneled $350,000 To Anti-Gay Hate Groups Last Year Except, of course, that there wasn’t anything “secret” about the “funneling”: It was duly reported as required by law and, as Think Progress itself notes, Gingrich was outspoken […]

Herman Cain Wins Iowa Debate

The headline expresses a neutral, objective fact. Of course, that’s not the headline on the MSM stories about Monday night’s 2012 presidential candidate forum sponsored by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition. But who do you believe, the lying liberal media or your own two eyes? Brian at Freedom’s Lighthouse says, “Herman Cain is going […]

Herman Cain on the Iowa Caucuses

Duane Lester interviews the not-yet-official candidate after an event in Council Bluffs, Iowa: In Iowa, like New Hampshire, candidates really get the chance to be vetted. This meeting that we had here today is a good example. They didn’t hold back. And in Iowa, you can’t just buy enough advertising and you’re going to win […]

Herman Cain Invited to Iowa Forum

Note the way the reporter phrases it: Likely 2012 presidential candidates have been sniffing around Iowa for months on book tours and under-the-radar speaking engagements. But now the entire field — all dozen or so possible GOP challengers — are being invited to a megachurch on the outskirts of Des Moines for a March 7th […]

Rep. King on Pigford Reparations Vote: ‘That Debt Was Paid for in Blood’

Wow. Just freakin’ wow. “We’ve got to stand up at some point and say, ‘We are not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.’ That war’s been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot […]

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