News Flash: Politics Is About Elections
It shouldn’t be necessary to say this in a crucial mid-term election year, but I have been troubled to find that it’s difficult to get conservatives to concentrate on supporting individual candidates in actual elections. When I spent three weeks covering Tim Burns in the PA-12 special election, traffic to the blog actually went down. That was discouraging. Everybody’s always […]
Florida Democrats Think This Allen West Video Will Help Ron Klein
The Florida Democratic Party has created an attack Web site called “The Real Allen West” — which showed up here via an Adsense rotation — featuring this video: Isn’t that great? Ron Klein has gone from ignoring Allen West to trying to convince people that the Republican is some kind of dangerous radical. In other […]
Ladd Ehlinger Jr. Goes Hollywood
My latest column at The American Spectator: HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — On a sound stage near Santa Monica Boulevard, actress Valerie Novak flubs a line and director Ladd Ehlinger Jr. asks her to repeat it. “And — action!” Novak nails the line this time and continues with her dramatic monologue when the director’s cell phone rings, […]
Socialist Opiates Are Addictive Indeed
by Smitty The Tenth Amendment Center reprints a fine overview of the Social Security disaster: If the words “general welfare” and “United States” are put in their proper context, then the general welfare provision grants Congress the power “[t]o lay and collect Taxes… to provide for the… group well being of all the United States.” […]
Da Tech Guy Interviews Mattie Fein
The local newspaper can’t be bothered, but she scores big with New Media: “There are serious issues in the district and the voters deserve the issues on the table.” Read the whole thing. Remember it was Da Tech Guy who loaned me the Famous Fedora of Objectivity, which made another celebrity appearance today: Yeah, Mattie Fein has […]
California Reporter to Republican Candidate: ‘We’re Not Interested’
A reporter for the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze sent an e-mail to a political consultant saying the newspaper is “not interested” in covering Republican candidate Mattie Fein, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Jane Harman in California’s 36th District. In the e-mail sent Wednesday (see text below), Daily Breeze reporter Nick Green told consultant John S. […]
Ron Miller Question And Answer Part 1
by Smitty Previously, we enjoyed Ron Miller’s prepared remarks. Fine stuff. However, in my opinion, Ron hits his stride as he fields questions from the audience. All of the questions and answers are great, but if you’ve time, the first one offers greater philosophical insight. The rest are also good but focus more on current […]
Greetings From California!
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — My host, Ladd Ehlinger Jr., tells me that this is known as the “Porn Capital of the World,” but that’s not why I’m here or why Ladd’s here. He’s doing political ads, trying to bring to California some of the viral video magic he patented in Alabama. (See: The greatest political ad […]
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