Oddly Satisfied-Looking Jackalope Spotted In Reagan Airport Vicinity

by Smitty
Also, DaTechGuy loses some fresh cannoli. Coincidence? Abso-tively not!

One-Way Flight to Anchorage

That’s right — I booked my flight this morning, and Mrs. Other McCain has already packed my suitcase, so I’ll be in Alaska for Tuesday’s absentee-ballot count.
Frankly, I was planning to go later, but got an e-mail Sunday from a source who suggested I didn’t want to miss the action Tuesday and so I did something crazy: Booked [...]

Da Tech Guy Interviews Mattie Fein

The local newspaper can’t be bothered, but she scores big with New Media:
“There are serious issues in the district and the voters deserve the issues on the table.”
Read the whole thing. Remember it was Da Tech Guy who loaned me the Famous Fedora of Objectivity, which made another celebrity appearance today:

Yeah, Mattie Fein has joined the Axis [...]

‘Just One Tweet’: Conservative New Media Get Results in Georgia 4th District Story

Readers may remember the headline here Wednesday morning:
Obama-Endorsed Rep. Hank Johnson
to Participate in Segregated Forum?
It was Dan Riehl who tipped me to that story, which originated with a Facebook post from Republican congressional candidate Liz Carter, who had been excluded from an Atlanta political event, the Newsmakers Live forum.
Da Tech Guy jumped on the story and started making calls, [...]

Obama-Endorsed Rep. Hank Johnson to Participate in Segregated Forum? UPDATE: Johnson Will Not Attend

UPDATE 3 p.m. ET: Da Tech Guy reports that Rep. Hank Johnson’s office says the congressman will not attend tonight’s “Newsmakers Live” forum due to a scheduling conflict.
PREVIOUSLY (11:55 a.m. ET): When Dan Riehl told me about this I couldn’t believe it, but it’s apparently true: Georgia Republican congressional candidate Liz Carter was told by [...]

Yankees Invade Georgia — Again!

Da Tech Guy is on the prowl this week near my hometown of Atlanta, but I made him promise to leave his matches in Massachusetts. Of course, Atlanta’s been utterly overrun with Yankees in the past few decades — I blame air-conditioning, interstate highways and Hartsfield Airport — and it figures that the first person Da [...]

The Difference Between Theory And Practice Is Greater In Practice Than In Theory

by Smitty
Da Tech Guy asserts that Rand Paul failed to consider his audience when launching into a theoretical discussion on MSNBC:
The basic issue isn’t so much with the theory, which I discuss in detail here; the problem is theory can be an excuse to do nothing. As Sen Pat McNamara once said to Sen Richard [...]

BREAKING: Terrorism Angle in Massachusetts ‘Immigration’ Raids; BUMPED: ‘Very Quiet Neighborhood’; UPDATE: Mohammad Bakht Zameen; UPDATE: ‘They Paid the Rent on Time’

12:08 p.m. ET: DaTechGuy on the scene reports by phone: The boarding house where the suspects were arrested is “next door to public housing” in an “ethnically mixed neighborhood.” Residents describe it as “a very quiet neighborhood” where “nothing ever happens — until today.”
UPDATE 12:20 p.m. ET: New England Cable News names Mohammad Bakht Zameen [...]

Raquel Welch Agrees With Me

Da Tech Guy seems surprised:
Raquel Welsh echoing Robert Stacy McCain?
Yet we should not be surprised that even a legendary bombshell would acknowledge self-evident truth:
One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female sexual attitudes during the 60’s, was: “Now we can have sex anytime we want, without the consequences. Hallelujah, let’s party!”
These days, nobody seems able to “keep [...]

‘Every Campaign Needs to Have a Sicilian Guy in a Fedora’ — Roxeanne De Luca

That’s what she said when I called her during my latest trip to PA-12, where Tim Burns is barely two weeks away from the May 18 special election for Jack Murtha’s old House seat. Definitely a job for Da Tech Guy, especially since he’s now covering the Boston Tea Party beat.
Lots of Tea Party volunteers from [...]

Troubling News From Fitchburg, Mass.: If Scott Brown’s Lost Josh Romano . . .

In his new gig writing for the Examiner, Pete Da Tech Guy finds trouble at the corner market for the “41st vote”:
We now know Brown’s price; $354,000.
That’s a local voter’s reaction to this Boston Herald article:
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown – the upstart GOP maverick who has threatened to filibuster the Democrats’ move to rein in Wall Street – raked in hundreds [...]

Tea Party Express III: Tax Day Rally
at Freedom Plaza

11 a.m. ET — “People’s Tax Revolt” in downtown Washington, D.C. Smitty is already on the scene. Barbara Espinosa and Pete Da Tech Guy (“Have Fedora, Will Travel“) and I are running late.
UPDATE 11:20 a.m. ET — Michelle Malkin tells how to spot a Tea Party infiltrator. More from Jimmie Bise at The Sundries Shack, Darleen [...]

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