Jeremy Lott
Dirty Sexy Politics By Meghan McCain (Hyperion, 194 pages, $23.99) One hesitation that any male reviewer will have when attempting to evaluate Dirty Sexy Politics is this: do I really want to make Meghan McCain cry? It’s not a hard…
Ignore those exit polls, folks. They’re just about never right.
Voters are unpredictable beasts (see Greene, Alvin) but, if Republicans win all of the Senate races that they are thought likely to win in today’s elections plus my own Washington state, we will end up with a 50-50 split in…
Pardon a bit of shameless self-promo in the usually disinterested cyber pages of The American Spectator, dear reader, but I have a new website that you should visit, bookmark, and read regularly. Actually, make that Two Websites. The first site…
God bless the Mormons for their genealogical obsession. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. During the campaign, we found out from wife Lynne that Barack Obama was distantly related to Dick Cheney, and now this, from the AP: A…
The headline writing gods long ago declared that all scandals shall be likened unto Watergate. Thus we’ve had Climategate, Filegate, Macacagate, Monicagate, Nannygate, Nipplegate, Rathergate, Travelgate, Troopergate, and Wampumgate, to name just a few. The list on Wikipedia is 114…
LYNDEN, Washington — Dino Rossi came through Washington State’s primary on August 17 just a little more bruised than he might have hoped. Though several candidates quit the field when Rossi made his late May announcement that he would run…
Slate‘s David Weigel, who was born and raised in Delaware, does a good job of chronicling the carnage from that state’s recent primary. Mike Castle was clearly the state’s most electable Republican. How electable? Read it and weep, GOP: “Castle…
Every year at about this time, readers can count on a few Christmas-themed articles appearing in newspapers and magazines that question the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ. It really is something to see the wide variety of people who get…
For all the sturm und drang that rolled off the British newspaper presses in late October, you’d think the Limey scribblers were sounding the alarm over an imminent threat to the realm rather than reporting on a pair of religion…
