The Other McCain

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

AFL-CIO OMG WTF?

Lee Stranahan returned my phone call today. He was in Lansing, Michigan, to cover this week’s union goonfest for Breitbart.com, and he told me the story of what happened to Clint Tarver. Clint is a beloved local figure, his hot dog stand across from the Michigan state capitol being a sort of institution, a landmark. […]

Accuse the Accusers: @scrowder Gets the Left’s ‘Plate Glass Window’ Treatment

After yesterday’s incident in which labor union activists tore down an Americans for Prosperity tent in Lansing and sucker-punched Stephen Crowder, this headline zoomed up the Memorandum aggregation: Breitbart Folks Appear to Fake Violence in Lansing Huh? This was a decidedly odd piece of blogging: The claim that somehow the union thug clobbering Crowder was part […]

Weird News: Portman’s Ghost in Ohio; Bad Michigan Poll; Killer’s Ex-Girlfriend

Just a lot of weird stuff in the news today, beginning with this: My friend Chris Moody stayed at the historic Ohio hotel owned by the family of potential GOP running mate Rob Portman — and was warned to beware of ghosts! (OK, but is it a Republican ghost?) Meanwhile, in yesterday’s Michigan Republican primary to […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk:
‘If I Could Walk That Way …’

Chris Moody and Steven Crowder with Crowder’s haawwtt fianceé, Hillary, at the Santorum event in Grand Rapids, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 “Another Wednesday morning, another hotel room, another grim bout with the TV Morning News . . . These goddamn Wednesday mornings are ruining my health.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the […]

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RESULTS HQ: Michigan and Arizona Vote Tonight

by Smitty 2251 EST: A Memeorandum scan: HotAir has Allahpundit needing to get him some rest: Romney’s doing so well [in Michigan] tonight, in fact, that he might end up with a bonus talking point tomorrow. In 2008, he won the state with 338,000 votes. Tonight, with a little more than 70 percent reporting, he’s […]

EXCLUSIVE: Election Day in Hell, Michigan: Does Romney Have a Snowball’s Chance of Winning?

Election Day reporting from Hell, Michigan, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 THREE MILES FROM HELL, Michigan On my way from Troy to Grand Rapids — site of Rick Santorum’s Michigan primary victory party tonight — I got a late start and realized I wouldn’t make it in time for Senator Santorum’s 3 p.m. event at his […]

Santorum Turns the Tables on Mitt in Michigan With Robo-Calls to Democrats

Rick Santorum greets supporters in Lansing, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 “[T]he devastating oppo hit has been the defining characteristic of the Romney campaign since December . . .” — Reid J. Epstein and Zachary Abrahamson, Politico, Feb. 24 “It has been confirmed that a robocall making the rounds in Michigan the day before the state’s […]

MICHIGAN GOP PRIMARY TODAY

TROY, Michigan It’s 7 a.m., which means the polls just opened in today’s Michigan Republican primary. Polls will be open until 8 p.m. The front-page banner headline story in today’s Detroit Free Press: TODAY, MICHIGAN VOTE COUNTS It’s a make-or-break day for Romney, Santorum After two weeks in the headlights of the national hunt for […]

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