The Other McCain

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

Everybody Loves a Pretty Girl

Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress notes that David Horowitz seems to be stocking up in the Rule 5 department. Meanwhile, here is my friend Ali Akbar with two young lovelies at the Alabama GOP meeting Friday night in Montgomery: I’m pretty sure this was after Ali ordered a round of Jack Daniel shots for […]

Politics and Mardi Gras Beads in ‘Bama: Rick Barber Campaigns in Millbrook

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Bailey Barber greeted us at the front door of her family home Saturday morning with ecstatic news. “We’re going to a parade,” announced the 6-year-old daughter of Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber. Retail politics requires a relentless press-the-flesh effort on the part of the candidate, and Barber hit the streets Saturday. After […]

Flakes Mandate Journalist Repair to Alabama

by Smitty Update: the links internal to The Other McCain have quit working.  I blame a recent server upgrade.  I’ll change the PostID values to Permalinks when I get a chance.  Thanks to Political Byline for keeping me straight. This week’s misleading FMJRA title is a fun poke at RSM, who, if I may, serendoofusly* […]

Live Blogging Gov. Palin at Tea Party Convention

by Smitty Below is a sampling of the speech. Themes included Scott Brown as a Tea Party signal, the need for common-sense values, questions on national security and stimulus money. Broken promises. I thought it a solid effort. The critics are going to be all over the shrill voice, in their own shrill tones.

‘Truth on Troy’ Challenges Alabama Republican Leaders on Attorney General

Alabama blogger Truth on Troy has posted an open letter to the state Republican Party: Dear Chairman Hubbard and Members of the ALGOP Executive Committee, The time has come to encourage your expeditious review of Troy King’s actions as attorney general which directly contradict the conservative principles of the Republican Party. As Alabamians prepare to head […]

Still Working the ‘Blame Bush’ Angle

by Smitty Interesting News Items gets the IPCC take: Snowpocalypse Hottest Blizzard on Record. Somehow, this storm is more about increasing variability in weather, not about how the AGW crowd is completely full of fertilizer. The creative, yet logically tenuous, ‘Blame Bush’ angle is missing, so we can only give this post 6 wombats out […]

You Know, If Al Gore Can Land An Oscar, Why Not BHO?

by Smitty The Blogprof unveils a dangerous YouTube talent in the brewing: Viva the Internet. Al Gore invented that, too (no, he didn’t). The Internet will be seen by historians as the sword that slew the statist dragon. Barely in time.

Condell on Wilders: Dutch Justice

by Smitty Via Pamela Geller. Remember: it’s largely the same group of fools who brought you anthropogenic global warming who are telling you to pay no mind to atrocities like the Wilders trial. How is it that the bulk of the truly crappy ideas seem to come from one end of the political spectrum? Update: […]

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