Doubling down on O’Donnell
Just win. The Delaware Senate race is like a game of Texas Hold-em that started slow, with boring cards on the table, and an obvious winner smirking over his hole cards. A few rounds later, everyone...
View ArticleVideo: “Sesame Street” comes up with bold new way to increase audience
Palate cleanser. The best goof I heard about it was last night on Twitter when someone said, “This episode is brought to you by the letters T and A.” Elmo must have had a heck of a time trying to...
View ArticlePalin: I’ll run for president if no one else “steps up”
"I would offer myself up in the name of service to the public." Skip ahead to 6:00 for the key bit, although if you do you’ll miss her swipe at Murkowski for having been “handed her job by her father”...
View ArticleReport: Castle to test viability of write-in campaign with poll
RINOtastic? See last night’s post for some back-of-the-envelope math on his chances. This is actually … good news for O’Donnell, isn’t it? Rep. Mike Castle is planning on polling a potential three-way...
View ArticleDeMint rips Senate GOP in e-mail to supporters for refusing to strip...
Oh yes. Richly, richly deserved. And the fact that they did it by secret ballot — without even announcing the tally — is a complete disgrace. “It was bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support...
View ArticleSports show asks NFL receivers: Would you rather see Palin in the White House...
Unreal. Via Sports Grid, no, it’s not ESPN but rather a ripoff from Comcast called Versus that I hadn’t heard of until today. And yes, believe it or not, they’re actually featuring this clip in the...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Values. The idea of abstinence has become somewhat of a punchline in this country. From the myth of unrealistic “abstinence only” education, to the media’s constant portrayal (and mockery) of young,...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
The common touch. Maybe the lesson here is to keep Presidents away from grocers. George H. W. Bush didn’t do himself any favors when he asked a question about a bar-code scanner, making him appear to...
View ArticleVideo: The campaign ad that sums up the election
The put-your-kids-to-work generation. If elections hinged on cutting to the heart of the biggest issue in the US with clarity and brevity, as well as wit and humor, Joel Demos would win Minnesota’s 5th...
View ArticleSix months of ObamaCare: Two Minnesota insurers stop selling individual policies
Finding out what's in it. If you like your policy, you can keep your policy meets We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it right here in Minnesota as ObamaCare hits its six-month mark. Two...
View ArticleCoates: Obama appointee told me to stop pursuing race-neutral enforcement of...
Hmmmmm. PJTV is broadcasting the testimony of Christopher Coates to the Civil Rights Commission live this morning, but they already have his opening statement available in PDF format at Pajamas Media....
View ArticleRasmussen: Emmer moves out to slight lead in MN gubernatorial race
Momentum. When the previous Rasmussen survey in Minnesota’s gubernatorial race showed newly-minted DFL nominee Mark Dayton out with a large lead, I advised friends in the state to remain calm. Dayton...
View ArticleConyers to Colbert: We love you, but …
... we'd love you to leave. The carefully-crafted attempt by Democrat Zoe Lofgren to make her fellow Democrats look hip and with it crashed into a debacle earlier this morning when the House Judiciary...
View ArticlePalin relaunches Take Back the 20
Stepping up. Fresh off of her success in the primaries, where about two-thirds of her candidates won Republican nominations, Sarah Palin continues her midterm campaign with a new website and a renewed...
View ArticleRed flag on green-jobs numbers
Propaganda training? The Obama administration has insisted that their policies and subsidies have created a boom in so-called “green jobs,” with an additional 200,000 positions created in the...
View ArticleVideo: Lincoln, Murray “win” Porkers of the Month
Go Hogs! And it’s a good thing, too, because neither one may win anything else this year. Blanche Lincoln is so far back of John Boozman in the Senate race in Arkansas that she might need to change her...
View ArticleWaterloo: Obama’s approval at 42%, down eight points in three weeks
Rock bottom. Gruesome. Wall to wall, probably the single worst poll for him that we’ve seen since he took office. Until the next poll, that is. As Ace points out, this isn’t even among registered or...
View ArticleWhy Democrats won’t take action on tax hikes until after the election
Honesty. Democrats will send Congress into recess without taking any action to cancel the tax hikes that will come at the end of the year, putting off the debate until after the midterm elections....
View ArticleReport: NYT set to drop another hit piece on Boehner?
October surprise? Via JWF, come on now. The Times wouldn’t do the Democrats’ bidding by dropping a salacious hit piece on a top Republican during election season, would it? Or rather, they wouldn’t do...
View ArticlePelosi: It’s “great” that Colbert testified before Congress
"It can bring attention to an important issue like immigration." Just the right thing to say on a day when trust in the legislative branch is not only at an all-time low, but almost 10 points lower...
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