EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: New Rick Barber Campaign Ad Invokes Slavery
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Alabama Republican 2nd District congressional candidate Rick Barber: A source close to the campaign asked my opinion of the ad, and all I could say was, “You’re going to get heat, but you’re going to get light, too.” The GOP primary runoff is July 13, and Barber is a Tea […]
Judge Blocks Obama Administration Offshore Drilling Ban; UPDATE: Text of Ruling; Obama Vows to Appeal Decision
Instapundit links the news from Bloomberg. UPDATE: Judge Martin Feldman sides with the people against the powerful: A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. . . . More than a dozen Louisiana offshore service and supply companies sued […]
Alabama Radio Hosts Rick and Bubba Offend Soccer Fans Homosexuals
Rick Burgess: “I would dare to say that we would never declare Fornication Pride Month”: Pam Spaulding is having a conniption. Just in case anyone wants to do a guilt-by-association smear, I’ll point out that Rick and Bubba are alumni of my alma mater, Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, as is James Joyner of Outside the Beltway. […]
New Alabama Ad: Who Is Dale Peterson Endorsing in the July 13 Runoff?
UPDATE: On his own campaign Web site, Peterson makes his endorsement of John McMillan. UPDATE II: Having been the first to post this video (6:04 a.m. ET), it’s kind of annoying to see Ben Smith getting the linkage for a post he did five hours later. I’m trying to avoid Charles Johnson Syndrome here. There’s […]
Get Some! Get Some!
by Smitty (h/t House of Eratosthenes) A fine campaign ad: Begs a Full Metal Jacket paraphrase: Private Joker: How can you eliminate Progressives? Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t Keynesian economics hell?
Like Ronald Reagan Said
Remember this guy from the Doug Hoffman NY-23 campaign? Yates Walker? Sound familiar? Perhaps you remember him from an article in the The American Spectator: Yates Walker ate breakfast in the Blue Moon Café on Main Street in Saranac Lake, New York, on the morning of November 4, and delivered an after-action report on the battle that […]
Barber Makes AL-2 GOP Runoff
Tea Party candidate Rick Barber was outspent 7-to-1 by the GOP establishment’s choice Martha Roby in Alabama’s 2nd District Republican primary but was able to force the Montgomery councilwoman to a runoff. Roby got 48 percent in Tuesday’s primary — less than the majority needed to avoid a July 13 runoff — while Barber got 28 percent […]
VIDEO: A Mosque at Ground Zero?
Another great ad from Alabama, this one from 2nd District Republican candidate Rick Barber: Excerpts: “We weren’t attack by a nation. We weren’t attacked by ‘terror.’ We were attacked by Islamic jihadists. . . . Jihad threatens our freedom, our families and our way of life. . . . Islamic jihadist pose a clear and […]
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