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My Video At Heart of Controversy in Florida House Race
12 Dec 2011 12:41 pm Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, a video I made in Denver is at the heart of a controversy in a race for the House of Representatives in Florida.
While at Blogcon 2011 I had the opportunity to interview Karen Harrington, a Republican candidate for the 20th District House seat now held by Debbie Wasserman Schultz — who is also the Chairman of the Democrat National Committee. I made a video of that short interview as I have so many other candidates.
In our interview Harrington, recently endorsed by GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, went through some …

The 40 Best Conservative Blogs For 2011 (Version 4.0)
12 Dec 2011 8:40 am John Hawkins

It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 4th quarter of 2011.
Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how often the blogs are updated, etc., etc. Also, as per usual, do keep in mind that this sort of list changes frequently over time based on a variety of factors. So if a blog didn’t get …

Occupy Chicago Sign: ‘Dear Rich Straight White Dudes, F**K Off’
24 Oct 2011 12:06 pm Warner Todd Huston

Like the rest of the large cities in the US, Chicago is currently suffering with small pockets of Occupy protesters and their ever-present signs. And like every other big city these signs are often misspelled, sometimes profane, commonly anti-capitalist, occasionally anti-Semitic, almost always anti-American, not to mention merely ignorant of the facts. But one thing that is the same in every protest, at least in the media reportage of same, is that the worst of the signs go unseen by the general American news consumer.
Chicago blogger John Ruberry took his …

Occupy Wall Street College Grads Should Sue Their Schools
14 Oct 2011 6:06 pm Michael Fell

What’s most puzzling about Occupy Wall Street is a persistent resistance by recent college graduates to acknowledging the cause and effect phenomenon manifested by big government interference in business.

When you employ the economic policies of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Jimmy Carter you’re going to get a lousy economy because you’ve created a climate that’s unfriendly to business. To blame corporations and especially small business for not hiring when the business climate dictates they take steps to insure their survival is wrong.
If you’re the CEO of a corporation who’s responsible for ensuring …

Blame Corporations?
12 Oct 2011 5:29 pm Michael Fell

Would you hire people purely out of national loyalty knowing that doing so meant your company would eventually become fiscally insolvent?
Corporations, like any business, are in business to make profits. Jobs are the byproduct of profits, not the other way around. Until U.S. corporate tax rates are cut to globally competetive levels, the corporations will outsource jobs overseas in order to make profits for their investors. Unless capital gains taxes are reduced to globally competetive levels, private capital is disincentivized to invest in America. Until Dodd Frank is repealed, small …

Traditional Hackers Now Turning Their Crosshairs on Conservatives
28 Sep 2011 12:11 pm Rachel Alexander

Owners of popular conservative websites have increasing reason to be concerned their sites may be hacked or otherwise physically attacked for political reasons. Traditionally, hackers took an anarchist approach that primarily targeted government websites. Lately, they are assailing politically conservative websites. Many of these newer attacks are coming from hackers associated with Wikileaks. Some libertarian conservatives defend Wikileaks’ business of leaking government documents, unaware that its affiliates are hypocritically trying to silence them. In addition to wreaking technical havoc, hackers have figured out they can use Google’s strict policy against …

Victory for Bloggers: Illinois Blog Wins Lawsuit
24 Sep 2011 3:01 pm Warner Todd Huston

In a good sign for blogger free speech, a lawsuit against a high profile conservative blog in Illinois has just been tossed out. A political contributor brought the lawsuit over a story about property tax reassessments and political contributions. This is a victory for free political speech as well as a victory for the status of blogs in the world of “journalism.”
I’ve been aware of this story for some time but the folks at Illinois Review, the blog in question, asked me to sort of keep it all quiet. There …

Want Proof of How Democrats Would Shut You Up, Tea Partiers?
8 Aug 2011 1:22 pm Warner Todd Huston

On MSNBC, John Kerry told us that Tea Party ideas are not “real” ideas, not “factual,” and thinks that the media should stop reporting on anything that smacks of ideas or news coming from Tea Partiers. If this isn’t proof of how Democrats and leftists would use the power of government to quash free political speech, what is?
Not long ago, several Democrats tried to once again raise the ugly head of the defunct Fairness Doctrine that was killed during the Reagan administration in order to limit the free political speech …

Freedom of Speech Wins: Baltimore Politician Drops Lawsuit Against Blogger
3 Aug 2011 12:03 pm Warner Todd Huston

Examiner blogger Adam Meister was doing what bloggers do, namely posting the info that “journalists” refuse to write about. In this case, back in March, Meister found that a Baltimore Councilwoman was living in a different district than she claimed she was living in. As a result, the politician tried to sue the blogger for his posts.
City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway filed a lawsuit demanding an idiotic $21 million in damages for Meister’s expose of her true primary residence. But this week Conaway abruptly dropped her suit against the blogger.
Through public …

Follow-Up: The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere
19 Jul 2011 6:32 am John Hawkins

Yesterday, a post I wrote called The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere created a lot of discussion across the blogosphere. There was plenty of debate, disagreement, and more than a little, “Ye Gods, what if he’s right?”
Today, I wanted to link up some of those posts along with a few follow-up comments on some of the points that were raised.
From Althouse:
How many people can put in 20-30-40-50 hours a week on something that’s not going to ever be their full time job? Can they do it …

The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere
18 Jul 2011 1:32 am John Hawkins

Way, way back in 2001, when I got started in the blogosphere, the Right side of the blogosphere was bigger and more influential than the Left.
Why?
Well, in American politics, the energy tends to be with the party that’s out of power. During the nineties, that was the Right and a lot of websites like Free Republic and Townhall got big and burly as part of the opposition to Bill Clinton. The Right side of the blogosphere, that was just starting to come into existence in the very late 90s, managed …

The blogger “transparency” crackup
29 May 2011 6:11 pm Ron Coleman

It’s another big moment in blogger “transparency” upon us now. The general rule is that the person who hasn’t “disclosed” enough to meet some preposterous concept of transparency is the person who the writer is jealous of, or worse. The current dart board is Tech Crunch.
I saw this coming, now didn’t I? I wrote this in 2007:
No one is free from bias of some sort or another, especially people who spend their time (paid or otherwise) writing opinions — whether in daily newspaper columns, legal newspapers or blogs, the …

Big Brother Bubba’s Ministry of Internet Facts
18 May 2011 11:45 am Warner Todd Huston

Bill Clinton wants the government to “correct” what you say on the Internet, folks. Should the government listen to the former panderer-in-chief, we’ll go from Big Brother to Big Bubba on the ol’ Internet tubes.
Bubba is not happy with what he claims is the “misinformation” on the Internet and he wants the force of government to stop it all. Politico is reporting that Clinton makes the proposal in an upcoming CNBC interview saying, “It would be a legitimate thing to do.”
No, Bubba, it would not.
Clinton says that the idea of …

Rebutting Jesse Kornbluth’s rebuttal re his original Andrew Sullivan article
4 May 2011 12:45 am Bookworm

Jesse Kornbluth, whom I took to task for his Sullivan hagiography, has responded to my rebuttal to his defense of that same hagiography. True to my lawyer’s credo, I’m trying here to have the last word, although I certainly don’t mean to preempt Kornbluth from doing the same, if he is so inclined. As I did before, I’ll put Kornbluth’s entire response here (indented) along with my comments:
3,467 words. Whew! (Okay, that includes generous quotations from my article and message board post.) If length mattered, Bookworm, you …

A rebuttal to Jesse Kornbluth on the subject of Andrew Sullivan
1 May 2011 9:22 pm Bookworm

I wrote a post taking Harvard grad Jesse Kornbluth (class of ’68) to task for his carelessly flattering portrayal of “journalist” and blogger Andrew Sullivan. It’s fine to like Sullivan, although I would question a person’s judgment in doing so. What bothered me was that Kornbluth failed to discover that Sullivan has taken a fair amount of deserved flack for (a) obsessing about Trig Palin’s putative maternity and (b) launching a frothing, entirely ill-informed tirade against the Tea Party and Sarah Palin in the wake of the Tucson …

3 Reasons Why Wonkette Self-destructed by Publishing a Hit Piece on Trig Palin
22 Apr 2011 3:06 pm Susannah Fleetwood

For the last several days, Twitter has been all aflutter with stories about a supposedly horrific attack on Trig Palin by the liberal website Wonkette. After seeing the uproar on Twitter, I remember thinking to myself, “Could this column from Wonkette attacking Trig (on his third birthday) really be as bad as everyone says?” Well, I decided to take a look at the infamous column in question and I am here to tell you that, yes, the column is just God-awful and offensive to anyone who doesn’t …

How to Deal With Gutter Sludge Like Wonkette: Starve the Beast
21 Apr 2011 1:33 am Jenn Q. Public

Cross-posted from NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed!
Sites like Wonkette are the overflowing Porta-Potties of the Left. The writers luxuriate in fetid puddles of their own waste, lusting after the next opportunity to belch forth their sewage into the blogosphere.
Wonkette‘s vile, dehumanizing mockery of Trig Palin on his third birthday is just the latest eruption of filth–far from the first and you can be damn sure it’s not the last. Why? Because Wonkette bloggers don’t just wallow in sludge, they …

Addendum To My CPAC Post: My Pictures Were Featured On Red Eye!!
21 Feb 2011 4:35 pm Susannah Fleetwood

As some of you are aware, earlier this week I published a post that was chockerblock full of pictures documenting my adventures at CPAC. Well, included in that post were pictures of myself with the hilarious Red Eye guys, the hysterical Stephen Kruiser (who is a frequent guest on Red Eye, as well as the host of the Kruiser Kabana), and the lovely blogger Sarah Rumpf. (See the pictures below.)

[Above is a picture with me and Greg Gutfeld, the host of the Fox show Red Eye.]

[Above …

Liberals Provide Smears And Innuendo Over Wisconsin Doctors Notes Story
20 Feb 2011 8:01 am William Teach

A bit of typical unhinged derangement and lying from Crooks and Liars to amuse you as you start your Sunday: Wisconsin Protesters Breitbarted Over Bogus Teachers’ Excuses
Fox News broke this bulletin about an hour ago. It stems from a video posted by the MacIver Institute Wisconsin alleging that a doctor is signing bogus excuses for teachers protesting in Madison. Because it is illegal for teachers to strike, they called in sick and have been told they will have to produce a valid doctors excuse in order to …

3 Reasons Why CPAC is a Must For Every Conservative Activist….[Major Picture Dump]
16 Feb 2011 5:05 pm Susannah Fleetwood

[A big thank you to Richard Hornsby for the photo]
This past Wednesday through Saturday, The American Conservative Union sponsored the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. CPAC was open to all conservative activists who wanted to attend. This year, I had the honor of being a credentialed blogger for CPAC, and, thus, was able to sit in the bloggers’ lounge that was sponsored by Freedom Works. Tabitha Hale, the brains behind the bloggers’ row who put the whole thing together, really outdid herself. (All attendees …

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