The original Gay Patriot weighs in at Big Journalism on the sea change at CPAC this year. He’s got both of the infamous videos up: the pro-GOProud cheering of Alexander McCobin and the pro-GOProud booing of Ryan Sorba. Bruce was the first one to point out that it was probably Sorba who provided the outnumbered—but [...]

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I have to say that, as much as Mitt Romney may be underplaying it (”all I did was write him a check and say, ‘go get ‘em’”) the Scott Brown coup is making me look at Romney in a whole new light.
I met him once, at CPAC. I was dressed in business clothes, but I [...]

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Her name ain’t Rio, but she sure does know her way around the sand. Watch out for coffee with that almond-like flavor, though . . .

Via Treacher, who is getting a lot of pleasure out of the fact that the gang at Huffington Post seems to genuinely believe this is going to hurt Scott Brown’s [...]

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It’s time to wake up: the Democrats are not your friends. Not necessarily. And the Republicans are not necessarily your enemies. (Remember them? Party of Lincoln? First party to seat the same-sex in-law of a Vice President at official State functions at the White House?)
Zombie, at PJM:
Turns out Obama has been a major disappointment for [...]

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. . . wherein Dave discusses the fact that constituents are out of touch with their representatives, blesses us with some automotive eye candy, and publishes a helpful field guide to Astroturf versus grass-roots protesters.

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Highest form of patriotism, or disloyalty to this great country?
Or racism?
I think I’ll go with racism. BTW, anyone who disagrees with me is a sexist.
Spadilio, waxing Southern and downright Bethlike toward the end of his rant:
Big Hollywood also notices that the LA Weekly, so upset by this Obama Joker image, published themselves pictures of [...]

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I’ll file a preliminary report here, but please keep in mind that I’m sleep-blogging, and have been for days: I never made up the sleep I lost by staying up all night on Wednesday night. In fact, I think my sleep deficit has increased since then.
This is a Good Thing, since it saves me [...]

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Okay. I’ll watch the clips on YouTube late tonight or early tomorrow, and if he isn’t winking constantly or holding his fingers, crossed, behind his back, that will likely be the end of it for me as well.
Though I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to gin up much enthusiasm for his advertisers after [...]

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Hm. How funny. Nothing about the Letterman/CBS scandal at the company’s corporate site, or on its blog, either. But HillBuzz has a thing or two to say about Johnson & Johnson.
Here are the Johnson & Johnson product lines:
Acuvue • Actifed • Ambi • Aveeno • Band-Aid • Benadryl • Bengay • Benylin • Caladryl [...]

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He was pretty far ahead of his time on the issue of gays; certainly if he’d been elected we wouldn’t have this “don’t ask, don’t tell” bullshit.
I mean, can’t Obama take some time out from screwing up the economy/foreign policy and at least address that?
One more, though, Meghan McCain doesn’t understand it when people [...]

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It looks like the two parties may be running almost even in donations—looking at the national committees for each party, as well as the two Legislative organizations for each—but the Dems have a lot less cash on hand, and a lot more debt.
Revenues are coming in at actually only a little lower overall than during [...]

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Here’s an interesting article from The New York Times. I know a lot of you are going think that there is an “agenda” here, at least at the newspaper (the writer seems more amused than anything by our hodgepodge of laws, state-to-state), but there are still larger points to be made here—about What Constitutes Gender? [...]

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The guys at Hillbuzz are getting together with the local Young Republicans to raise money for the Special Olympics on the May 13th; the HB team wants to raise “a perfect $300″—at least.
Some of my readers won’t be familiar with the Hillbuzz gang: they are still evolving politically, and are some of the huge numbers [...]

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I’m astonished that only 14 Republicans saw this for what it was, or cared.
Follow the link for the text/video of DeMint’s well reasoned battle cry; it’s good.

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by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. He wonders how the writers, fact-checkers, and editors there neglected basic research while they were endorsing Obama, why they have only recently realized that they misjudged him, and whether they will eventually see the rest of the ways in which they still cannot own up to fundamental truths about [...]

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The news cycle this past week has been largely devoted to the AIG bonuses. I understand the public anger, and I understand why politicians want to sound off. But $165 million is only, what?–about ten percent of the money taxpayers are forking over to AIG. And only tiny fraction of bailout money [...]

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[Yes; it's another "inside blogball" post, as Iowahawk would put it. But the funny video links are to die for!]
What Stacy McCain doesn’t tell in you in that post is that he once spent a weekend in Santa Barbara with young Jason Mattera circa November of 2007. The crack reporters from Team Attila have uncovered [...]

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and because I wasn’t named McCain, I didn’t speak up . . .”
Which wasn’t, of course, one of my brighter moments.

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Goldstein and Patterico. Hot Air. Hot oil. Good times. I do luvs me some wiry brunettes goin’ at it like that.
Okay, okay: As usual, I do think that Jeff is more correct on this issue than Patterico and Ace are (except for Ace’s “let’s move on” moments, which appear to be belied by his “let’s [...]

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It was typical John and Ken anti-Arnold quasi-populist bullshit. Those guys feed on anger, and take pride in being as ill-informed as they can possibly be.
California has its own set of challenges. But California, unlike the Federal government, is trying to balance its budget and figure out how to do this without driving more [...]

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