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WASHINGTON -- John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States through Canada. Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a diplomatic kerfuffle by suggesting the terrorists took a Canadian route to the U.S. eight years ago, McCain defended her by saying that, in fact, the former Arizona governor was correct. "Well, some of the 9-11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know," McCain, last year's Republican presidential candidate, said on Fox News on Friday.

During his visit to Mexico last week, President Obama suggested that Americans are partly to blame for the appalling violence associated with the illegal drug trade there. "The demand for these drugs in the United States is what's helping keep these cartels in business," he said. "This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States."Obama is right that the U.S. is largely responsible for the carnage in Mexico, which claimed more than 6,000 lives last year. But the problem is neither the drugs Americans buy nor the guns they sell; it's the war on...

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Meghan McCain warned a group of gay Republicans Saturday that there was "a war brewing in the Republican Party" – a war between the past and the future. "Most of the old school Republicans are scared s***less of that future," she told a gathering of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay and lesbian party members. The 24-year-old daughter of former GOP presidential candidate John McCain pushed back against critics upset over her comments to CNN that she wanted President Obama to succeed, and played down her recent headline-grabbing feuds with conservative commentators Ann Coulter and...

Republican in Name Only? Try the future of the GOP. The following is Meghan McCain's address to the Log Cabin Republicans Convention—a group that promotes gay issues within the GOP—on April 18, 2009. Thank you all for having me here tonight. I am thrilled to be able to speak to you this evening to share some of my experiences from the campaign and observations on where our party is today. And I’m proud to tell you there is a special role for the Log Cabin Republicans to play in our future. The last two years of my life have been...

Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans! By David Knowles Apr 13th 2009 10:00AM Here's a question: Can Meghan McCain, the blog-a-lot daughter of Senator John McCain, help bring the Republican Party into the twenty-first century? Well, with her column at The Daily Beast, and during her many television interviews, she sure is giving it a go. Today's screed, for instance, attempts to light a fire under the Republican posterior on the matter of including gay rights in the party platform: If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to...

HONG KONG (AFP) — US Senator John McCain questioned China's commitment to restraining North Korea, and called Monday on Beijing and Moscow to back punitive sanctions after the hermit state's rocket launch. McCain, who stood unsuccessfully for the US presidency last year, said the reaction from Beijing and Moscow to Sunday's launch -- they urged restraint in handling the North -- had been "predictable." "We all know that the major influence on North Korea is China. Everyone knows that," McCain said. "The Chinese have been, I think, less than committed to restraining North Korea's activities." He said statements by China...

It seems that we take our good fortune for granted, and when fortune turns ugly we lament the world’s unfairness. What do those who are blessed by fortune really know about the unfairness of the world? If the U.S. economy collapses and America goes hungry, will we remember the misfortunes of Bangladesh, Biafra, or Sudan? If millions suffer abroad, do we imagine that we are immune? The happiness of America, suggests Philosophy, is chance happiness. By its very nature, this happiness cannot last. It is temporal, it is transitory. One day our material happiness must turn to physical suffering and...

The Senator from Arizona Tells Hispanics to Look to President Obama for Leadership on Immigration. BY KIRK VICTOR John McCain sounds angry and frustrated that, despite the risks he took in pushing immigration reform, Hispanic voters flocked to Democrat Barack Obama in last year's presidential contest. McCain's raw emotions burst forth recently as he heatedly told Hispanic business leaders that they should now look to Obama, not him, to take the lead on immigration. The meeting in the Capitol's Strom Thurmond Room on March 11 was a Republican effort led by Sens. McCain of Arizona, John Thune of South Dakota,...

My schedule has been busy lately and I’ve been unable to stay on top of CSPAN, but I just viewed the House of Representatives debating Henry Waxman’s bill to place tobacco under the regulatory control of the FDA. Congressman Steve Buyer presented an alternative amendment after Waxman’s presentation, and I can’t believe what I have witnessed! Waxman followed Buyer by deriding his amendment, demonizing Big Tobacco as if they are worse than crack or heroin dealers, and stating that tobacco companies only target children and teens. He made it very clear he intends to put tobacco companies out of business....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John McCain lost the 2008 U.S. presidential election to Barack Obama but has since won a leading role in Republican efforts to rein in Obama's big-spending economic revival plans. In the past week, the Arizona senator helped head a Republican charge in the Democratic-led Senate that stalled a $410 billion bill to keep government operations funded through the end of this fiscal year, September 30. "If it sounds like I'm angry it's because I am," McCain roared on the Senate floor. But after plenty of fiery debate, the bill was expected to win final congressional approval in...

It was almost as if last autumn’s bitterly fought presidential election never happened. En route to Brussels, where he will give a keynote speech on Saturday at a security conference, John McCain sounds supportive of the man who defeated him. Asked whether Barack Obama will return next month empty-handed from Strasbourg, where he will request more support from his Nato counterparts in Afghanistan, Mr McCain said: “There is enormous goodwill in Europe towards the new president.” In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr McCain, who retained his Senate seat when he became his party’s nominee, repeatedly declined to criticise...

We are engaged in an epic struggle for the future of mankind in which the forces arrayed against us will employ any means necessary, no matter how underhanded or fraudulent they may be, in order to destroy capitalism and subject man to the will of his brothers. Although men of a liberated intellect are perceptive to this struggle, those among us who do not possess the capacity to recognize a threat when it is presented to them are more than willing to play the part of the useful idiot in order to line their pockets or maintain their tenuous grip...

Oh, my...what The Nose On Your Face comes up with. Arlen's going down in 2010, hopefully in the primary, and hopefully to Ron Toomey, but...this "outing" (well, there really wasn't a need for it, since we all KNOW he's a Democrat...but still) is just...so...friggin'...priceless:

WEST MICHIGAN -- The family of injured shooting victim Derek Copp has hired a lawyer who is questioning why the Grand Valley State University student was shot by police and the basis of a search warrant to look for marijuana in his off-campus apartment. "We have some very important questions about what appears to be some shocking police activity," Grand Rapids attorney Fred Dilley said Monday. Dilley questioned the safety and necessity of raiding a student's apartment, entering through a rear slider, and the "manner in which it was served and executed." "The question is, is that a sufficient basis...

Deteriorating economic conditions will cause the federal deficit to soar past $1.8 trillion this year and leave the nation wallowing in a sea of red ink far deeper than the White House had previously estimated, congressional budget analysts said today....

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two top enate Republicans said Sunday that banks shouldn't be able to count on any more bailout money — and that the federal government should let some of them fail rather than distribute further funds to keep them afloat. . . . . . Former GOP presidential candidate John McCain told Fox News Sunday that he did not think President Obama "made the hard decision, and that is to let these banks fail." He did not call for nationalization of troubled financial institutions, which many Republicans oppose, but said their assets should be sold. "Unfortunately, the shareholders...

"Is it working for you?"While Ron Paul has arguably done more to wake up and educate the masses than anyone in recent history, it isn't enough to just "know". You may know the bus is coming down the road but if you don't move out of the way, you'll get run over. We may know that our Constitutional Republic is rapidly being replaced by Socialistic Statism controlled by the multi-national corporate elite, but if we don't take action immediately, we will lose forever that grand experiment of government of the People, by the People, and for the People.For years, we...

McCain: Rush 'a distraction' Politico Live Politico Live 40 mins ago Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that the Rush Limbaugh dust up this week has been "all a distraction." "I think it's all a distraction," McCain said during an interview on Fox News Sunday. "Mr. Limbaugh has his audience and his base of support around the country, but the important stuff is what we're talking about right now, job losses." Limbaugh has criticized McCain numerous times over the years, but the Arizona senator chose to lay off an opportunity to take a shot at the radio host. McCain also...

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