The Other McCain

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CENTRAL, Louisiana You remember the Harris sisters, who sing the Rick Santorum campaign song “Game On”? Tonight I’m staying at the home of David, the guy who hosted the Harris sisters for three days during their tour of Louisiana. David is a pro-life Catholic and Marine veteran who says he “got roped into” the Santorum […]

#ILikeObamaCare

by Smitty A fairly raucous hash tag game broke out on Twitter. It really brings out my snarky side. If you’ve a Twitter account, give me a re-Tweet. IowaHawk also notes that the farce has infected FaceBook. I don’t think the traditional propaganda means are translating so well into the Information Age.

Tip O’ The Fedora: The Franklin Center

by Smitty Stacy writes to say that The Franklin Center was so gracious as to buy a BlogAd on this humble site. The esteemed Franklin Center does massive amounts of state-level conservative outreach. The also sponsor events such as BlogCon, in a successful (with the glaring, occasionally caustic exception of Stacy McCain ;)) effort to […]

Rick Santorum in Cavuto Interview: ‘This Is the Hatchet-Job of All Time’ (Video Added)

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana Rick Santorum says it is “absurd” for anyone to suggest he would not support the Republican Party’s nominee against President Obama. “This is the hatchet-job of all time,” the former Pennsylvania senator told Neil Cavuto during an often-contentious Friday afternoon interview on Fox News about Santorum’s comments at a Thursday event in Texas. […]

Your Steven Crowder Fix

by Smitty

BULLETIN: 5.0 Earthquake Hits Vanuatu; New Poll Shows Rick Santorum Headed for ‘Commanding Win’ in Louisiana Primary

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana News that the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was shaken today by a 5.0-magnitude earthquake reached me at just the same time as news that the latest poll shows Rick Santorum way ahead here: Rick Santorum is headed for a commanding win in Louisiana on Saturday. We find him with 42% to 28% […]

What Santorum Said, What He Meant, and What Romneybots Want You to Think

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana I posted the video last night, but considering the reaction, let’s once more let everybody see for themselves what Rick Santorum said: “Republicans and conservatives who are so worried about, you know, getting control back — ‘We have to win and so we have to nominate someone who can appeal to more’ — no, […]

Could Individuals Eventually Sue To Escape Social Security?

by Smitty Making clear that the courts remain open for citizens who believe they are being “strong-armed” by the government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave property owners a right to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make an immediate challenge to an EPA order to stop a development that the agency says threatens […]

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