The Other McCain

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New TV Series: ‘Atlanta Blood Money’

Meagan McBrayer: Her daddy got rich by killing babies No, wait — I’m sorry, the actual name of the new reality-TV show on the Style network is Big Rich Atlanta, but this involves the question of how these shallow trampy women became rich: The cast includes two women named Marcia Marchman and Meagan McBrayer, the ex-wife […]

Republican Auto-Demoralization

It’s amazing how Obama and the Democrats have persuaded John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio to help them destroy the morale of the Republican Party grassroots at the very beginning the 2014 mid-term election cycle. Democrats know that John McCain’s push for “comprehensive immigration reform” (i.e., amnesty) in 2006 andf 2007 demoralized Republicans and […]

Steubenville Update: Nodianos Video Will Not Be Used as Evidence at Rape Trial

‘Occupy’ protesters in Steubenville, Ohio, earlier this month. “What is Anonymous trying to accomplish by its digital vigilante act in Steubenville? Who is lurking behind those Guy Fawkes masks and sockpuppet accounts, and what are their real motives? What are we to make of ‘Occupy Steubenville’ and their bizarre claims that the local sheriff is […]

“What Difference, At This Point, Does [A SuperPAC] Make?”

by Smitty Fans of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have launched a super PAC on her behalf as speculation continues to swirl about her 2016 ambitions. “Ready for Hillary” on Friday filed with the Federal Election Commission, following on the heels of another group called “HILLARYCLINTONSUPERPAC.” Hillary is sooo (not) not running. via preciseBlogs

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.29.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Obama To Announce Own, More Liberal Immigration Reform Plan Administration proposal includes quicker path to citizenship for illegals Boy Scouts May Allow Local Troops To Set Policy On Gays American public, Family Research Council opposed Congress Okays $50 Billion In “Sandy” Aid Only nine Republicans vote for bill after […]

‘Arab Spring’ Update: Foreign News the Media Doesn’t Want to Ask Obama About

Kirsten Powers points out what was so obviously missing from Sunday’s 60 Minutes softball interview: Now, I’m sorry, is anyone paying attention to what’s going on in North Africa? Why is the president not asked about Algeria, Mali, Libya? These are front and center in the news right now. Indeed. Lots of news out there: […]

Iranian Space Monkey Jokes

I bet that space monkey was happy to get the hell out of Iran — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 28, 2013 Of course, the news that Iran has launched a monkey into space is no laughing matter. It’s like the North Korean “space program,” a purportedly peaceful (nudge, nudge) way of flight-testing an ICBM. […]

Fear & Loathing Among the Conservative Intellectuals: A Stubborn Sense of Panic

Mark Steyn and fans at the National Review Institute Summit “Growing up in the USSR, where the only permitted sources of information were textbooks and the official media, I believed that the Soviet Union was the most advanced society in the world. All other countries lived in poverty and oppression, devoid of the sun of […]

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