The Other McCain

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

Hmmmm …

Press release from the Herman Cain campaign: For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 For More Information: Ellen Carmichael, (678) 601-2772 media@hermancain.com Cain Meets with American Muslim Leaders (Stockbridge, GA)- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain met with American Muslim leaders this afternoon at the ADAMS Center in Sterling, Virginia. After the meeting, Cain issued the […]

VIDEO: Dick Morris Interview With Herman Cain: ‘What an Impressive Guy!’

Dick Morris does what he calls his “Lunch Alert” videos, and here he talks economics and jobs with Herman Cain: More at DickMorris.com. PREVIOUSLY: July 27: Herman Cain: He’s In It To Win It July 26: A One-Way Ticket to Des Moines … July 17: VIDEO: Herman Cain Talks Mosques, Sharia and the Muslim Brotherhood […]

Herman Cain: He’s In It To Win It

Late Tuesday night, I had about 45 minutes of frustrated confusion when California writer Jim Henson sent a couple of Twitter messages to Shane Vander Hart and me: My reaction to that — knowing that such a rumor could have no basis in fact — was something like, “WTF?” To which Henson replied: Well, you can’t just […]

A. Second Only to the Bible

Q. Is Seize Freedom by Thaddeus McCotter the greatest book in all human history? I don’t want to say which one of our commenters has spent several days harassing encouraging me to say a good word for Rep. McCotter’s book. Nor is it my inclination to disclose the vast wealth boundless gratitude that I’ve been […]

A One-Way Ticket to Des Moines …

. . . would cost $249 if I booked today for an Aug. 3 departure from Reagan National in D.C. You may ask, “Why Iowa? Why Aug. 3? Why a one-way ticket?” Here’s the story at The American Spectator: Atlanta businessman Herman Cain will begin a nine-day bus tour of Iowa next week, leading up […]

The Terrible Legislative Catastrophe No One Will Remember in November 2012

For weeks we’ve endured non-stop sturm und drang about the debt-ceiling crisis, and the tightrope negotations between President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress: President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner rushed Thursday to strike agreement on a far-reaching plan to reduce the national debt but faced a revolt from Democrats furious that the […]

GOP Dept. of Media Relations

Doug Ross of ABC News gets roughed up by Michele Bachmann’s security: Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white […]

Why Is Tim Pawlenty Losing?

Walter Shapiro at The New Republic: But, midway through the interview, desperate for a headline-making morsel about his home-state rival, I asked Pawlenty to respond to the assessment that he was the establishment and [Michele] Bachmann was the outsider in Minnesota politics. To my surprise, Pawlenty sprang to life. He spent the next four minutes […]

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