The Army of Davids: ‘All Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen’
From my latest column at The American Spectator: The prime congressional target for Alabama’s Republicans is Rep. Bobby Bright, whose 2nd District encompasses the Wiregrass region where Odom’s group has become a force to be reckoned with, as has the Wetumpka Tea Party, led by Eric and Becky Gerritson. The anti-establishment mood represented by the […]
Agitprop for A**holes
“It’s quite a stretch to call The Nation’s Max Blumenthal a journalist. Blumenthal . . . is an ethically challenged agitprop creator and self-indulgent performance artist.” — Matthew Vadum, “Max Blumenthal, Equal-Opportunity Hater”
VIDEO: GOP Candidate Rick Barber Talks Tea Parties, Pool Halls and Blue Dogs
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Pubs and alehouses like Tondee’s Tavern served as meeting places where colonists planned the American Revolution, and that tradition is being carried on by Tea Party activists in Alabama. Every Tuesday is “Patriot Night” at Montgomery’s Deja Vu Billiards, owned by Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber: By the way, describing Barber as a […]
For the Record, Barbara Espinosa Was Right and I Was Wrong . . .
. . . about the Saints winning the Super Bowl. My prognostication of a Colts victory represents a disastrous failure of judgment. All hail Barbara Espinosa. All hail the Saints.
To Be Fair to Rachel Maddow . . .
. . . it was hard to tell exactly what the sounds coming from the MSNBC host meant. They were sort of a little bit muffled by, you know, the pudding in her mouth: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Maddow’s quote: Just for reference here, when Tom Tancredo talks […]
Fear and Loathing in Talapoosa County
DADEVILLE, Ala. — Rumors that I have absconded or been kidnapped during my Alabama expedition continue to roil the blogosphere. Sunday I spoke to Mrs. Other McCain who had seen Bob Belvedere’s account of my allegedly fatal sojourn in the Heart of Dixie. That was before the Super Bowl, where the Saints made a fool of me. During the […]
Fallout From Sarah Palin’s Kentucky Senate Endorsement of Rand Paul
For several weeks, I’ve been in communication with Lisa Graas, a Kentucky conservative who operated the PalinTwibe feed on Twitter, with nearly 4,000 followers. Lisa is a Sarah Palin supporter who also supports Bill Johnson in Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, and was extremely disappointed by Palin’s endorsement of Rand Paul in that primary. Now Lisa has […]
Cue Your TiVo Now: Allen West Will Be On ‘Fox & Friends’ Monday
According to the press release, the Iraq war hero and FL22 congressional candidate will be on shortly after 6 a.m. ET Monday. I also understand from Rhonda Lee Welsch (whom I profiled for the American Spectator in December) that Lt. Col. West (whom I profiled for the American Spectator in June 2008) will be a speaker […]
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