December 30th, 2011
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Iowa Poll Update: This news is ridiculous
Rick Santorum. Now? Seriously? This is ridiculous. How are prognosticators supposed to do our jobs if we get a break so late it makes Mike Huckabee look like an early frontrunner? Seriously, Iowa, simmer down now. All I know is Ron Paul isn’t winning. Beyond that, anything’s possible. Well, almost anything. It’s starting to look [...]
Rick Santorum, Earmarxists, and the Pro-Life Statist
A number of people read my post yesterday about Rick Santorum and still are scratching their heads. In my book RedState Uprising I spent a bit of time dealing with “pro-life statists” who will be the death of the conservative movement if we do not start standing up to them. Rick Santorum is a pro-life [...]
TEA Party Leader Recruiting Campaign Chairmen for Trump
From the diaries . . . Just in case all the early primary fun hasn’t put you in a fetal position next to the liquor cabinet, maybe this will finish the job: After his aborted press tour/election tease, Donald Trump nearly immediately went back to hinting at an independent run for President. Speculation has been [...]
Thursday Open Thread
Five days until Iowa. No one has the slightest clue what will happen there or how it will shake up the race. Right now five different campaigns could plausibly pull off a first place finish. What do you think will happen? Open thread.
“The Chickens of that Effort are Coming Home to Roost[.]“
The Huntsman campaign just released this video, which scores a pretty solid hit on Paul with the newsletter issue, ending with his embarrassing flight from the Gloria Borger interview: As we count down the final few days before Iowa, I also wanted to point out and hopefully tie together some of the remaining questions about [...]
Oh, by the way, ethanol subsidies are dead.
Details here and here: the short version is that the Senate back in June kicked off opposition to continued ethanol subsidies via a bipartisan amendment: it didn’t pass, but Congress has just let both the ethanol subsidy and a restrictive foreign tariff (on Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol) lapse. Given that the Iowa caucuses will be finished [...]
Brain Dead Dem Congressman Thinks Spending is Too Low
In case you were wondering why we are doing nothing to slow our inexorable march towards Greek-style insolvency, look no further than those who are vested with the power of the purse string. Yesterday, Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) suggested that we are not spending enough “to invest in research and development, education and infrastructure that [...]
The Horserace for December 29, 2011
Nobody knows the winner of Iowa but Jesus. That’s the dirty little secret. Matt Lewis hits the nail on the head on this. Nobody knows. Why? Well, the caucuses are a big event. You don’t just go into a voting booth, check a box, and leave. You’re there for a while. You hear speeches. You [...]
Once Again, Red Staters Lead the Nation in Private Charitable Giving
The Fraser Institute has released their latest report on charitable giving in the U.S. and Canada, and once again North America’s leaders in charitable donations from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle reside overwhelmingly in red states. This has been the case for some time, and the reason for it almost certainly comes down [...]
Union Retaliated Against Boeing’s South Carolina Employees, NLRB Charge Alleges
Having posted extensively on the Machinists’ union smokescreen at Boeing, there is some sense of satisfaction in knowing that Boeing’s union-free employees in South Carolina are not letting the union get away with retaliating against them for choosing to be union-free. Indeed, were it not for the fact that the once-unionized Boeing employees in South [...]
