August 15th, 2011
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Can You Smell Them Now? Striking Union Agrees Not To Drop, Spread Or Throw Feces…
….Well, actually, it’s feces and other objects like “nails, glass, cinder block, spikes, feces, clubs, rocks, screws, or puncture devices of any kind, or other object or debris…” On Friday, a judge in New Jersey granted Verizon some relief from its striking unions by granting an injunction against International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local [...]
Morning Briefing for August 15, 2011
RedState Morning Briefing For August 15, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. This is a rather unusual Morning Briefing if only because the last 72 hours have been rather unusual and I am exhausted. My apologies in advance. Governor Perry announced to the nation he was running for [...]
Fast & Furious Update: William Hoover claims ‘exit strategy’ meeting.
Short version of Fast & Furious, for those who came in late: the federal government decided to try to fight the spread of illegal weapons sales among Mexican narco-terrorist gangs by… encouraging and facilitating the sale of illegal weapons to Mexican narco-terrorist gangs. No, it did not end well: the guns that were illegally resold [...]
A Singular Overlooked Advantage for the Perry Team
Let me give you some quick and dirty info about the Perry team that, in talking to a number of reporters in New Hampshire and Iowa, is being corroborated. Perry has a team in place that he has used for a number of years. While Governor Perry really did legitimately stand down after the November [...]
In Defense of Michele Bachmann
I am getting a lot of angst in my inbox already about Michele Bachmann. It is sooooo predictable as to be pathetic. Michele Bachmann is weighing down Rick Perry and therefore helping MItt Romney. So Bachmann should get out. Friends, it could be that Rick Perry is weighing down Michele Bachmann, so he should get [...]
On Tim Pawlenty
For a long time I thought Tim Pawlenty would be the eventual nominee. He kept his head down, worked hard, and hired a hell of a good team. Nick Ayers, Alex Conant, Ann Marie Hauser, and the rest of the team have really done well building Pawlenty’s image as a problem solver and as a [...]
Rick Perry Announces His Presidential Bid at the RedState Gathering
Transcript below the fold.Howdy. Thank you, Erick. It is great to be at RedState. And I’ll tell you what, it’s even better to be governor of the largest red state in America. It’s sure good to be back in the Palmetto State, in South Carolina. I enjoy coming to places where people elect folks like [...]
