Questioning the Unquestionable

That’s the apparent shitstorm we have slated for the day; is it kosher to question John McCain’s military experience in the context of this election season? That’s exactly what General Wesley Clark did yesterday on Face the Nation, and John Aravosis took it about three hundred steps...

You Know What They Say About Assumptions, Right?

Glenn Greenwald urges us to examine the “moving to the center” assumption: Republican Nancy Johnson of Connecticut was first elected to Congress in 1982, and proceeded to win re-election 11 consecutive times, often quite easily. In 2004, she defeated her Democratic challenger by 22 points. The...

What John McCain Meant, and Why It Doesn’t Matter

The story about John McCain telling a reporter for the Orange Country Register that he doesn’t remember the last time he pumped gas or what it cost is picking up velocity. Only now it turns out he does know. Via Patterico’s Pontifications by way of John Cole, McCain was quoted by Environment News...

Full of gas

GOP presidential candidate and economic genius John McCain admits to not knowing what gas prices are right now, but to defend himself, he quips that he doesn’t “see how it matters” anyways.  I guess consumer confidence dipping to all time lows partly because of gas prices doesn’t...

Uncle Steve Awarded Human Rights Medal (Say What?!)

“I wonder how long it will take them to figure out that my name isn’t ‘Stephen Lewis’?” You have got to be shitting me: Prime Minister Stephen Harper today became the first Canadian to receive the B’nai Brith International President’s Gold Medallion, in recognition of the Government’s...