John McCain hates pork-barrel spending.  He’s never asked for or accepted an earmark. Except when he has:

The Second Amendment says: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The National Rifle Association is the gun nut lobby.  It describes itself as a major political force and as America’s foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since...

A lot of bloggers are up in arms over John McCain’s claim to have “bought American [cars] literally all” his life.  AMERICAblog says: At this point, we ought to have an open and honest debate as to whether McCain has simply become a serial liar, willing to do anything and say anything in order to be president, or whether McCain is having...

During the 1992 campaign, George H. W. Bush attacked Bill Clinton’s healthcare plan by saying that it would result in a state-run health system that would combine “the efficiency of the House post office with the compassion of the K.G.B.” It didn’t happen that way, of course.  Bush’s argument was empty rhetoric, meant to make...

John McCain has said “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” at least sixteen times this year.  He said it again on the very day Wall Street was on the verge of collapse.  He later clarified by claiming that he was talking about American workers (why does Barack Obama think American workers are weak?). But that was a full week ago.  This...