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Take Up the Weigel’s Burden

2010 June 26 by Mr. D

I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about the curious saga of Dave Weigel, the young journalist who landed a plum new beat at the Washington Post, covering the strange cultural rituals of conservatives, or something like that. Weigel had worked for a time at Reason magazine, a libertarian journal that I’ve subscribed [...]

NR: Unholy Union – SEIU and the White House

2009 November 17 by Paul

This article by Stephen Spruiell nicely shows how TARP, the “Stimulus”, and Health Care “Reform” are as integral to their strategy as ACORN and Card-Check. National Review: Unholy Union: Why is the SEIU boss the White House’s most frequent visitor? .

The Friday before Halloween, in response to requests from the public, the White House released [...]

Trolling for Radio Y-ers

2009 November 8 by Paul

They’re wireless and they’re looking for Y-ers (and X-ers). We’ve been noticing a little-noticed initiative to garner more listeners for Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio, and soon-to-be-re-branded World Public Radio (i.e. the British Broadcasting Company, the BBC). In some wee hours, one can occsionally hear MPR/NPR re-broadcasts simultaneously at 92.5 FM (”92 KQRS, Minnesota’s [...]

Blame Bismarck, Not Kaiser Wilhelm II

2009 November 7 by Paul

This past Thursday, 11/05, on the Dennis Prager show, Dennis talked with Leon de Winter, prominent Dutch Journalist, novelist and commentator. They had an interesting and informative conversation comparing European and American thought and feeling, especially regarding Socialism.
One point of relative misinformation was that they blamed the European-model Socialist welfare state, particularly “effective” Nationally Socialized [...]

What We’re Up Against

2009 October 31 by Paul

Our Founders understood the lure of centralizing power. They wrote voluminously about it. The most important such document was their Bill of Rights (all TEN of them). As our Founders knew well, and Lord Acton said best, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. They understood the threat of smiley-faced tyrrany.
Liberals and Progressives of [...]

Perhaps Rep. McCollum Could Explain

2009 September 17 by Mr. D

Her decision to join with 74 other members of her party (including Rep. Ellison) to vote against defunding ACORN.
Should we assume she’s totally cool with funding organizations that are happy to advise how to evade taxes and set up a child prostitution ring?
Closed circuit to the potted plants at KARE, WCCO, KSTP, etc. — maybe [...]

Another Interview

2009 September 15 by Evil Conservative

I am finishing up some edits on a back-and-forth with a gentleman I met as a result of the Philalawyer back-and-forth last month.
He is a Harvard-educated counterterrorism analyst. His site is Tremble the Devil – named after his highly entertaining and informative book of the same name that is published in its entirety on the [...]

Comedy Gold, Pundit Edition

2009 September 3 by Mr. D

There is no more reliable indicator of the flaccid conventional wisdom of Beltway liberals than the Washington Post columns of E. J. Dionne.  Dionne has lately been quite exercised about the horribleness of those nasty partisan mobs who have been shouting down gallant Congresscritters in town hall meetings and such.
 
Just a month ago, he was [...]

What can a State do?

2009 August 28 by lloyd

So let’s say one of these health care bills passes and there is a run on the public plan that makes the Cash for Clunkers fax machines look idle.  And let’s say that the Cap and Trade bill passes and the higher utility rates drive the price of goods and services higher.  Finally, let’s say [...]

Radio Sweetheart

2009 August 27 by First Ringer

Obsessing about K Street is my hobby.  Obsessing about Wall Street is my job.
I may attempt to be a political pundit by night, but I’m a financial consultant by day.  And starting this Saturday from 3-4pm, I’ll be dispensing my insights and advice over the radio on AM 1570 Business Radio with Stock & Trade.
1570 [...]

Radio Daze

2009 August 24 by First Ringer

More details on Friday…

How Tweet It Is

2009 August 22 by First Ringer

Our own Gary Matthew Miller just eight short months ago:
If the conservative movement does not figure out social media — and fast — we will be in a semi-permanent minority status until the NetGen gets well into middle age.
Apparently someone listened.
Even though President Obama and national Democrats use Twitter…liberal bloggers acknowledge the GOP has the [...]

Harrison’s Ford

2009 August 12 by First Ringer

Even though fisking his material had become mind-numblingly routine throughout the blogosphere, the departure of Nick Coleman certainly shrank blog content across the 10,000 Lakes.  Thankfully, recent months have shown that newly elevated Star Tribune columnist Jon Tevlin is up to the job.
After all, wouldn’t Nick Coleman have bemoaned the racially insensitive arrest of Henry [...]

Barack knows he stepped in it

2009 July 24 by lloyd

So Barack just interrupted the press briefing to clarify what he said when he clarified what he said after he was pressed to clarify what he said about the Gates arrest in Cambridge.
He was successfull in clarifying what he said during each clarification in many different ways but he may need to come back tomorrow [...]

Tweets for Twits

2009 July 23 by First Ringer

Are too many politicians contracting social-media diseases?
Ever since politicians jumped on the social-media bandwagon, critics have been questioning the wisdom of elected officials using Twitter on the job. In March, columnist Charlie Cook of the National Journal wrote that he has “yet to hear a single intelligent remark twittered by an elected official.” Bloggers at [...]

Uncle Walter

2009 July 17 by Mr. D

Walter Cronkite, the longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News, died today at the age of 92.
If you didn’t grow up watching Cronkite, it’s difficult to explain the power that he wielded at the helm of CBS News. These days you can get your news from any source you’d prefer, but during Cronkite’s tenure he [...]


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