McCain’s Last Frontier By Jonah Goldberg

SKAGWAY, Alaska—What’s the matter with Alaska?

That’s the question John McCain should be asking.

Next week marks the 102nd anniversary of newspaperman William Allen White’s famous editorial “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” in which he flayed Kansans for their populist foolishness. Tongue firmly in cheek, he editorialized, “Whoop it up for the ragged trousers; put the lazy, greasy fizzle who can’t pay his debts on the altar, and bow down and worship him. Let the state ideal be high. What we need is not the respect of our fellow men, but the chance to get something for nothing.”

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