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Instapundit Interviews Les Phillip

This was sort of a carom shot of my Alabama trip. My Monday American Spectator column included two paragraphs about Les Phillip, who is running for Congress in Alabama’s 5th District. Friday night, after the state GOP meeting in Montgomery, Ali Akbar and I hung out with Phillip — who smokes cigars — on the veranda […]

Professor Is Denied Tenure, Opens Fire in University Faculty Meeting, 3 Dead

Unusual and tragic violence: HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville faculty shot and killed three co-workers on campus. Sources close to the investigation identify the suspect as Dr. Amy Bishop. Police also have the alleged shooter’s husband in custody. He has not been formally charged with anything. University spokesman […]

Alabama Apocalypse: Tim James, Bradley Byrne and Quin’s Vow of Revenge

My American Spectator article today: Tim James was Tea Party before Tea Party was cool. Before the federal bailouts, before most Americans had heard of Barack Obama, before Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck became household names, James helped lead the 2003 effort to stop a tax increase proposed by Alabama’s Republican Gov. Bob Riley. The […]

Democrats Accuse My Alma Mater of Conservative Political Bias

How awesome is this? Alabama state Democratic Party officials are calling for the resignation of Jacksonville State University Government Relations Director Don Killingsworth after what they called “a blatant display of partisanship on what Killingsworth himself termed a ‘no electioneering’ campus.” In a statement released Tuesday, party officials accused Killingsworth and the university of showing […]

Alabama Attorney General Troy King Continues to Defend Casino Gambling

While I was in Alabama, the front pages of newspapers were dominated by reports of the state task force attempting to raid illegal electronic bingo operations. And the man being blamed for the confusion — which has sparked political and legal turmoil in the state — is Alabama’s Republican attorney general, Troy King. On the […]

Heading North

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — I’m heading out this morning, back to snowbound Maryland, where the forecast is snow, snow, and more snow. My wife’s worried. I’ll be OK. Thanks to all the tip-jar hitters who’ve made this trip possible. Some road reading: Commentary‘s Jennifer Rubin fisks the latest Sullyism: “Do not under-estimate the appeal of a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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