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More News on Liberty.com

Wednesday, I blogged about the launch of Liberty.com, which will officially go live Sept. 1. David Catanese reports at Politico: A new conservative group created to harness the energy of the tea party into a national financial force has set a lofty goal for itself: match or eclipse the influence of MoveOn.org in campaigns across […]

DNC Tries to Flush Anti-Bush Ad Down YouTube Memory Hole: FAIL!

The Democratic National Committee put out a TV ad blaming Bush for the “Republican policies that got us into this mess,” which caused a big stir today on the blogosphere. This evening however — no doubt embarrassed by the transparent desperation of their blame-Bush message — the DNC changed the setting on the YouTube channel […]

WARNING: Polls Are Not Campaigns

Instapundit links Fisherville Mike’s caution against over-optimism turning into apathy for Republicans. Meanwhile, Karl Rove is trying to forecast the relationship between “generic ballot” polls and the likely GOP gains in November. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! If all you’re doing is following the national polls — Obama’s numbers down, Republican numbers up — you are seriously […]

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, […]

Fear and Loathing in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — I’m at a sound stage near Santa Monica Boulevard where Ladd Ehlinger Jr. is directing his latest series of political ads. There is something of an embargo about the exact nature of the production, and I’m on deadline for The American Spectator, so I can’t give you the full story now. However, […]

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. […]

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