im not sure whats bigger news here wayne allyn roots milliondollar challenge or roots calling obama a marxist and saying that obama is a communistlast week just before sen. barack obamas dill. big speech tim cavanaugh and i attended a small fundraiser for libertarian party vice presidential nominee wayne allyn root. the chatty vegas sports bettor memorably profiled by david weigel two months back ...
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you can validly level a number of serious charges at the woman but being boring isnt one of them. anyway the stuff im posting here is very different from anything ive read or heard about palin in most places. over at our beauty blog hillary is on a roll. this is a woman who probably learned what it felt like to lead on a high school basketball team. her next stop was the pta and from there the ci...
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download the norml daily audio stash for 20080904 download audio file norml daily audiostash 20080904.mp3 sorry to be so late stashers but i got caught up doing a lot of research and blogging under my political hat.a see there was this speech last night that was 2 alltime in ratings for a political convention somebody else last week scored 1 and i had to address that over at the blend and the writ...
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michael crowley...this is a very underwhelming speech. familiar points explained in pedestrian terms. no overarching themesright now its sounding like a state of the union laundry list. even the crowd in the hall isnt jazzed. this is the sort of reception tom ridge got.hugh hewittin a strong speech that crescendoed to a stirring close senator mccain laid out a classically conservative series of po...
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after reading the griping from the left that gov. palin was too snarky and disrespectful to obama who if he wants to be president will have to get as tough as president bush in the face of criticism i asked shana if she could create a new button with the words audacity hope or audacious hopeful. she did a great job more shana buttons here i like the button so much ill keep it at top for the da...
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so you guys really let simon have it for declining to rake the bristol palin muck the other day. congratulations you set a deceiver commenting record. now can we talk about her policies as radley balko at reason magazine points out the mccain campaign might have done better in vetting their candidate before trotting her out as a hero against government waste. the washington independent has unearth...
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in his latest column steve chapman explains why a true maverick would never have selected an underqualified running mate primarily because of her sex. read all about it here.......
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were all for giving local law enforcement pretty much whatever they want. after all these are the guysa who willingly stand between us and crazy people and we owe it to them to make sure theyre wellequipped with all the guns bullets and soupedup cars they need to do their jobs. having said that we were more than a little surprised to see that the richland county s.c. sheriffs office went out and b...
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cernig explains what the sarah palin circus is distracting us from and nick gillespie kerry howley and hilzoy decry various aspects of the sexism and voyeurism around the last weeks thrill ride. my higher self agrees with them completely. the rest of them wonders whom theyre kidding. american presidential politics has previously turned on questions of windsurfing beerhaving tigercagesitting arugu...
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04 september 2008 sheriff buys 50caliber machine gun a sheriff in south carolina bought a 50caliber machine gun and threatens to shoot the public with it. this weapon cannot even be aimed carefully.......
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bob has been making the rounds amongst reporters much like he did in denver. his thoughts on alaska gov. sarah palin sen. john mccains runningmate appeared in a couple of articles today. the first is from cqpolitics barr said reports of a cursory vetting process for palin raise questions about the way mccain reached his decision. noting that mccain is 72 barr said he wonders whether palin has the...
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nifty new risk calculations of whats likely to kill you......
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matt welch as photographic evidence confirms there were more empty seats even in primetime than there are at the end of a dodger game. at the democratic convention if you didnt take root two hours before anything important the fire marshal wouldnt let you in. here you walk right up and find a nice bar stool and table looking directly at the stage. a sign of flagging enthusiasm......
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matt welch on last nights proceedingsas photographic evidence confirms there were more empty seats even in primetime than there are at the end of a dodger game. at the democratic convention if you didnt take root two hours before anything important the fire marshal wouldnt let you in. here you walk right up and find a nice bar stool and table looking directly at the stage. a sign of flagging enthu...
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there are so many examples of it going on right now i cant even count them all. of course most people are attacking various left wing bloggers and media sources for going after the child of a candidate. isnt there some sort of unwritten rule that we leave the kids of candidates alone john mccain would never do that after all well... except when he did do it... when he told this joke about che...
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reporting from the republican national convention reason columnist tim cavanaugh looks at john mccains chances with the gops antiimmigration hawks.read all about it here.......
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bulletpointed marginalia from last nights proceedings inside the eless xcel center.... jo ann davidson the chairman of the 2008 republican national convention committee gave the first of many genderpolitics shoutouts with a rap about how in 1892 the last year the rnc was held in the twin citiesathat was the first gop convention to seat two women alternates. it went on like that ever since that con...
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for entertainment value alone this might be the best interview ive seen yet from either convention. theres also some talk now that sarah palin may get thomas eagletoned. npr reported this evening that shes been in seclusion for two days from both media and convention goers. she even canceled a meeting with right wing maven phyllis schlaflys prolife group today which got ol phylliss knickers in a...
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david weigel how awful is his life going to be come january when democrats win enough senate seats to stop humoring him how much worse will it be if barack obama is in the white house pretty bad id expect. so joes speech leaking out to press now isnt too hard on the man from hope. its mostly praise for the man who plays moe to his larry.michael crowley it was odd to see george w. bush speaking t...
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i think one of the biggest examples of believing your own propaganda this campaign cycle has been that of the republicans believing in hillary voters for mccain too the extent they have. not that some hillary supporters feel so betrayed by obamas victory that theyll vote for mccain... but i believe the number that will do so is fairly small even with sarah palin on the ticket. for a very long ...
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is it possible in palin could mccain have actually picked someone more mavericky than himself the view on palin from an alaskan antireal id activist and democrat she is what mccain would like to be she really is a maverick. in two years she stuck it to the two largest oil .........
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dont even think about running an illegal bingo game in richland county south carolina. the richland county south carolina sheriffs department thats them above just obtained an armored personnel carrier complete with a beltfed .50cal turreted machine gun. sheriff leon lott has charmingly named the vehicle the peacemaker and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the u.s. military i...
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a recent la times piece bemoans the lack of freedom todays children enjoy. given the rise of such articles is this a shared consensus judging by the reactions to lenore skenazys child rearing practices maybe not. the explosive popularity of the dangerous books for boys suggests there is a real movement to get kids outside. the new york times and reason magazine arent so impressed. the america...
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live from minnesota and the republican national convention reason foundations director of government affairs mike flynn reports that the sarah palin vp pick and mccains gogo offense regarding barack obama is energizing the gop delegates in a way that was unimaginable even a few weeks ago.the polls are still against mccain but flynn contends a strong showing by mccain this week could be the first s...
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ok i admit it. im a closet reason fan. though obviously not a libertarian i do find myself nodding my head subconsciously often enough while reading it. at any rate there was an interesting column there a couple days back on obama and whether or not hes the hardcore .........
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