--Two weeks ago, Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman defended the McCain campaign's defamatory automated phone calls in that state about Barack Obama by suggesting that Obama has "anti-American views." She also went on to call for a full-scale media investigation of the anti-American views of other members of Congress. She reiterated...

1. A high-ranking Senate staffer said of Senator McCain, "Whenever we see someone wearing their flip-flops, we say, 'I see you have on your McCains today.'"

2. McCain said that in his presidential campaign this year he was going to, "raise the level of political dialogue in America, and I'm...

In further consideration of Yale professor and Weekly Standard editor David Gelernter's desire to associate John McCain with the Hebrew concept of tsaddick--"A man of such nobility and moral substance that he approaches holiness" is how he defines it--we offer today the final installment of our three-part series "McCain Family...

John Sidney McCain III may have represented the American Southwestern state of Arizona in Congress for his entire political career, but he is culturally and psychologically the product of America's Deep South and of the slave-owning, militaristic culture that his Scotch-Irish ancestors established there in colonial times.

Joseph McCain, born...

Right at the outset of his political career, John McCain's hostile and explosive temperament was evident, according to a Sept. 8 article in Time cover-lined "Honor Bound." Writers James Carney and Michael Grunwald report that in his first race for the House, McCain threatened to beat up a primary opponent...

Republican enemies of mine, as well as Republican friends, as well as some non-Republicans with an ambition to scrupulous fair-mindedness, often react to my book You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values, which details 110 instances of Republican sexual hanky-panky or serious misconduct or worse,...

One night after the presidential election of 2000 in November and before the ultimate resolution of that election by the United Stages Supreme Court in mid-December, as I lay in bed listening to Nightline, I heard James A. Baker III explaining to Ted Koppel why it would be wrong...

Here is joke that John McCain, Republican nominee for president of the United States of America, told back in 1986:

Did you hear the one about the woman who was attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness...

Mr. Jeff Baker, the book editor for the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon, reviewed YOU DON'T KNOW ME on August 22. His review is an interesting document in this ongoing story of the unraveling of Republican moral pretensions and bears examination. Let's first take a look at how he...

On Sunday, John McCain announced, regarding the schedule for the Republican National Convention taking place in Minneapolis this week, "We're going to suspend most of our activities tomorrow, except for those absolutely necessary." The idea was to avoid giving the impression, if Hurricane Gustav hit the Louisiana coast hard...

Rabbit hunting is...

Yet another vociferous anti-gay politician turns out to be gay himself. I speak of the attorney general of the former Confederate state of Alabama, Mr. Troy King. Last month, Wonkette reported that King had been caught in flagrante with a tender, youthful male aide by his wife, in their marital...

You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values

Let me now turn to the philosophical side of the equation.

A modern advocate of authoritarian government whose views have had a strong impact on important segments of the American conservative movement...

You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values

In his classic 1950 work, The Authoritarian Personality, T. W. Adorno and his team of researchers establish a link between repressed sexuality and Right-wing politics. "If the anti-democratic individual is disposed to...

You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values

When Tin House Books commissioned the in-depth research project that is reflected herein, we really had no idea of the statistics that would be unearthed. Here are some of them: 22 examples...