Tonight I am blogging from an evening with the Wall Street Journal's John Fund sponsored by the Illinois Policy Institute a conservative, economic policy group out of Cook County, Illinois.
We are meeting in the sumptuous legal library at the Five Star Center at the top ...
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CYA: ACORN, ACLU Attempt to Throw Out Penn. Voter Law
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So, what do you do if you are the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and you are accused of violating state election laws? What else but hire the ACLU to try and get those laws thrown out as unconstitutional?
In Pennsylvania, six members ...
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Gallup: Dems Have 30 States & Republicans Have Only 4?
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A Gallup poll that came out yesterday drew quite a bit of attention because it basically seemed to indicate that the Republican Party was as good as dead,
Political Party Affiliation: 30 States Blue, 4 Red in '09 So Far
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Maybe this is for real now. Maybe the sky really is falling, and all my measured lectures for loyal and genteel opposition were wrong, wrong, wrong after all.
Because, you know, it's really always about the money. And look what the New York Post, ...
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My fellow blogger Scott Ott, the man behind the inimitable "Scrappleface" but in real life the executive director of a non-profit organization serving children, is seeking to become the next Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Executive. His campaign is premised on the idea that his years of ...
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Targeting Audiences: What Would This Ad Accomplish?
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Over at Riehl World View, Dan Riehl says,
The Our Country Deserves Better PAC has put together a new anti-Obama ad. I imagine they're looking to raise money to air it. The thing that struck me was that, because you know where something labeled an anti-Obama ...
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Rasmussen Polling On The Issues: What A Difference A Year Makes!
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Unlike many conservatives, I think polling is extremely useful -- provided you understand how to use it. You have to know which polls are reliable and which ones aren't, be on the lookout for bias, pay more attention to trends than single polls, and understand ...
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Grassroots on Fire: 'Not One Red Cent!'
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John Hawkins of Right Wing News called for Sen. John Cornyn to resign from the National Republican Senatorial Committee after Tuesday's endorsement of Charlie Crist in the 2010 Florida Senate race. Then Erick Erickson of Red State vowed "not one dime for the NRSC," but ...
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The Intellectual Deterioration Of Politics
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Richard Posner has gotten a bit of attention on the Right for writing a piece bemoaning the intellectual deterioration of the conservative movement. Here's an excerpt,
I sense intellectual deterioration of the once-vital conservative movement in the United States. As I shall explain, this may be ...
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Since November, liberals have used Barack Obama's personal popularity as a weapon to intimidate Republicans into supporting Democratic policies. For example, when Florida conservative Senate candidate Marco Rubio debuted a TV ad criticizing his Republican rival Charlie Crist's support of Obama's $789 billion "stimulus" bill, ...
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Past Predictions of GOP's Demise Way Off
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The Reagan White House's political director Jeffrey Lord pens a piece in today's Philly Inquirer that talks about how past predictions of the demise of the GOP have proven to be way off (via ST reader GWR):
A former GOP presidential nominee claims conservatives "want ...
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The Bipartisan Rules blog, relying -- not surprisingly on this point -- on support from David Frum, writes as follows:
The Republican Party should be a political vehicle, not an ideological movement, but its opinion makers have it completely backward.
Its policies have become secondary to this ...
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A Warning To The "Beltway Dumb" GOP Establishment: The Toomey Bear Trap
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There are plenty of rumors floating around that the GOP Establishment wants Tom Ridge or Jim Gerlach to get in the Pennsylvania primary to run against Pat Toomey.
Now, I don't know how solid these rumors are nor do I know whether Ridge or Gerlach is ...
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Why Republicans Should Be More Concerned About The Tea Parties
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Unresponsive Republicans face some bad news this election cycle: vicious primary fights. Sure, they'll have all the big, fat-cat money that rolls in that comes with winning national office, but the Tea Parties are giving folks who would never get press a lot of free ...
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The Times reports that Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York who has everything, now also has a pretty sleazy -- and by all indications, gratuitous -- campaign dirty trick to his credit. It's push-polling to slime his rival for the mayoralty, Anthony ...
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Ian Martin at the UK Telegraph thinks it's time for Obama to end the perpetual overseas campaign and go home
Isn't it time for him to go home yet? It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much ...
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As Barack Obama continues to serve out Jimmy Carter's second term, the nation has over three years to figure out what it really thinks about Sarah Palin. As of now, I think it's fair to say nobody feels lukewarm about her. At all. You love ...
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A Short, Obligatory Comment On The Tedisco Vs. Murphy Race In NY-20
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Last night, there was a special election to replace Kirsten Gillibrand (D) in New York's Congressional 20th district. Both sides poured a lot of resources into the race and Barack Obama did everything short of showing up personally to help Murphy win.
The result? Murphy was ...
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Final Weekend Before NY-20 Is Decided In Special Election
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The race between Jim Tedisco (R) and Scott Murphy (D) for the NY-20 seat (formerly held by Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate), has become - over the last couple of weeks - a "dead heat":
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Reading The Tea Leaves On The Latest Polling Data
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There has been a lot of excitement from Barack Obama supporters about a new poll that shows he's more popular than evah!
After Barack Obama's first six weeks as president, the American public's attitudes about the two political parties couldn't be more different, the latest NBC ...
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Don't Insult Abe Lincoln By Comparing Him To Barack Obama
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People keep comparing Barack Obama to Abrahan Lincoln -- which is an enormous insult to a great man like Lincoln. Lincoln is not famous for talking a good game about hope and change or for being from Illinois; he's famous for what he accomplished. He ...
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Q&A Friday #99: Obama's Cabinet Appointments
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Question: "Leaving aside all the pre-election predictions and hand-wringing about Obama, what do his Cabinet appointments say about his governing style / ideology / chances of persuading Congress to enact his programs?" -- metatron
Answer: Very little.
Setting aside the fact that many of Obama's ...
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It's Too Early To Decide On A Candidate For 2012
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Although I absolutely cannot stand John McCain, so much so that I put a higher priority on seeing him beaten in his 2010 Arizona primary than I do on defeating any Democratic senator, I think he has gotten a bad rap for these comments,
Sen. John ...
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The Electoral College Vs. The Popular Vote.
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Over at the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Soros, George Soros' son, made the following argument -- such as it is -- for supporting the popular vote over the electoral college,
In his election-night victory speech, Barack Obama said he would be a president for all Americans, ...
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And so do we! Doesn't everyone? Anyway, we love Rush too! Here he is in Barbara Walters's 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008 which I actually watched part of. Hat tip: Hot Air
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