Rick Santorum Iowa Schedule Dec. 16-20
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 5 Comments
Press release from Santorum campaign HQ:
***MEDIA ADVISORY***
SANTORUM PUBLIC SCHEDULE
DECEMBER 16 – 20
Urbandale, IA – Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum will continue his campaign swing through to Iowa. Open press events are noted below, all times are local.
Friday, December 16:
7:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will be the featured guest of a house party hosted by The Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition at the home of David & Linda Holub in Sioux City, IA.
Location: Home of David & Linda Holub
1218 46th Street, Sioux City, IA
Saturday, December 17:
8:00am CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Onawa, IA.
Location: Onawa Public Library
707 Iowa Avenue, Onawa, IA
1:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Carroll, IA.
Location: Pizza Ranch
425 West Highway 30, Carroll, IA
3:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Denison, IA.
Location: Cronk’s Café
812 4th Avenue South, Denison, IA
6:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will be a featured guest at the Harrison County, IA Republican Christmas Party in Logan, IA.
Location: Home of Ross and Lee Hieb
524 West 4th Street, Logan, IA
Sunday, December 18:
11:00am CT: Senator Santorum will have brunch with supporters at the HyVee Instore in Council Bluffs, IA.
Location: Treynor State Bank
HyVee Instore, 1745 Madison Avenue, Suite 1002, Council Bluffs, IA
2:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Red Oak, IA.
Location: Pizza Ranch
1511 North Broadway Street, Red Oak, IA
5:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Atlantic, IA.
Location: Farmers Kitchen Restaurant
319 Walnut Street, Atlantic, IA
Monday, December 19:
7:30am CT: Senator Santorum will host a breakfast meet-and-greet in Creston, IA.
Location: Windrow Restaurant
102 West Taylor Street, Creston, IA
12:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Osceola, IA.
Location: Redman’s Pizza & Steak
123 South Main Street, Osceola, IA
6:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will keynote the Warren County GOP Dinner in Indianola, IA.
Location: Indianola Christian Union Church
707 East Euclid Avenue, Indianola, IA
Tuesday, December 20:
9:00am CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Pella, IA.
Location: Monarch Restaurant, Royal Amsterdam Hotel
705 East 1st Street, Pella, IA
12:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Mt. Pleasant, IA.
Location: Mt. Pleasant Public Library
307 East Monroe Street, Suite 101
Mt. Pleasant, IA
4:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will participate in the Genesis Health Care Forum in Davenport, IA.
Location: Genesis Medical Center
1227 East Rusholme Street, Davenport, IA
6:00pm CT: Senator Santorum will attend a house party to benefit the congressional campaign of John Archer in Bettendorf, IA.
Location: Home of John & Andrea Archer
3195 Westminster, Bettendorf, IA
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Meanwhile, in other Neutral Objective Campaign News:
Iowans heard the last debate last night, but they will be bombarded with direct mail, TV ads and earned media for the next few weeks. Rick Santorum, despite the ranking in the polls, is certainly getting his message out.
Politico reports: “A Super PAC backing Rick Santorum is spending some real money — $200,000 — to boost the hardest working man in lesser candidacy, making the straightforward case to conservatives that he’s the one they can trust.” His campaign is dropping a ton of direct mail, hyping nice comments made about him by Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee.
Anecdotal evidence has also been positive. Craig Robinson of the Iowa Republican e-mailed me about a Santorum event Wednesday night in Holstein: “I think he is now convinced that all of his hard work in Iowa is about to pay off. It might not show up in the polls, but I think it will be there on caucus day. By the way, at 2:30 in the afternoon 35 to 40 people showed up to see him. That’s a good crowd in a town of 1400. I don’t think any other candidates have been to Holstein either.” If you put together a lot of small towns, the numbers do add up. Moreover, Santorum generally helps himself at these appearances. “The response to him was good. People signed up and one couple brought a check. Another couple that I saw at a Rick Perry event the night before in Denison stopped to tell me that Santorum was their candidate. Last night they were deciding between [Rep. Michele] Bachmann, Perry and Santorum.”
This is it, you see: The long-awaited Santorum Surge that everybody thought would never come has, at long last, begun in earnest.
RICK SANTORUM
‘NO SURRENDER’
MONEY BOMB
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Because I’m Libertarian Like That
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
A barricade situation adjacent to the Northern Virginia Community College campus is over, according to Fairfax County police. The situation ended just before 10 p.m. Thursday.
The incident took place on the eigth floor of the Skyline Terrace Apartments in the south tower of the two building high rise complex … in the 3700 block of George Mason Dr in Alexandria
A man with a gun was threatening to kill himself. Officers were able to talk the man out of his apartment and took him into custody. …
The incident prompted the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College to cancel classes this evening.
This was an unfortunate incident in more ways that one. Wombat is a student at NVCC and was trapped on campus during the lockdown, which caused him to be three hours late with this morning’s “Live at Five” headline roundup. He sent an e-mail to apologize, explaining that a “suicidal a–hole” was the problem. Before I knew how the stand-off ended, I e-mailed Wombat this reply:
1. Did the suicidal a–hole kill himself?
2. Was he an Obama supporter?
Because I can understand why a–holes who support Obama would be despondent. And while I don’t approve suicide, I wouldn’t want to “impose my values” on others.
— RSM
We are grateful that police were able to take this poor demented man into custody, and only regret that more Obama-supporting a–holes don’t seek therapeutic treatment for their psychotic delusions before it’s too late.
The World’s Youngest Blogger: Despite The Iraq Exit, I Insist Upon Clashing
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 13 Comments
You See, Mr. Paul, History Does Not Support Scientific Experiments
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 59 Comments
by Smitty
RUSSIA seized today a consignment of the radioactive isotope Sodium-22 at a Moscow airport from a passenger who was to travel on a flight to Tehran, the customs service said.
“Tests showed that the Sodium-22 could only have been obtained as the result of the work of a nuclear reactor,” it said in a statement. “A criminal inquiry has been opened and the materials transferred to prosecutors.”
Sodium 22 is not recommended as a dietary supplement:
22Na is a positron-emitting isotope with a remarkably long half-life. It is used to create test-objects and point-sources for Positron emission tomography.
So the argument may be that Iran has legitimate medical interest. Yet, back to The Australian:
Moscow has echoed Western concerns about the nature of the Iranian nuclear program but stopped short of publicly accusing Tehran of seeking atomic weapons and always said that the standoff should be solved by diplomacy.
Experts have long called for tight controls against nuclear smuggling so that Iran cannot get ahold of materials it is barred from obtaining under UN Security Council sanctions.
The point of the sanctions is to put peaceful international pressure on Iran to be a nicer kid on the international playground. Maybe, Mr. Paul, if you understand that Tehran plays the bully in the Middle East the way the Federal Reserve pushes everyone around with respect to the currency, you might grasp that political liberty is as crucial as economic liberty. Yet you’re stuck in Neville Chamberlain mode, sadly. Even though what you say about the overall peacefulness of the Iranian people is very probably true, that assertion does not seem to hold for the Iranian leadership.
Here’s the 2012 rub, Ron: if it was a laboratory setting, it might be of interest to see if your approach would work, where Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter failed, failed, failed. But it’s not. History is a one shot deal. And you can go all Sermon on the Mount in your personal life, where I truly appreciate the foundations of your ideas. Yet, the Almighty constrains neither free will, nor the capacity for evil implied by that free will.
- Nobody wants to see a dirty bomb employed.
- Nobody wants the stress of dealing with the threat of a dirty bomb employment.
- Crucially, the majority of Americans are going to vote against your strange comfort level with the previous two points.
Update: American Power think Paul is unserious.
Update II: A thorough Paul review at The Pirate’s Cove.
via Zero Hedge
Santorum Iowa Ad: ‘Join the Fight’
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 32 Comments
Last night’s final debate in Sioux City was probably the best yet for Rick Santorum, says Bryan Preston of PJ Media, noting that the former Pennsylvania senator “showed very solid instincts on a range of issues” — as he has all along. There has been no “drama,” no flip-flopping from Santorum, and he has gotten relatively little media attention while carrying his “consistent conservative” message to all 99 Iowa counties. Now at long last, his fundraising boosted by praise from Sarah Palin and others, Santorum has released his first Iowa TV ad:
The voice over narrates over quotes from Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Mike Huckabee praising Santorum and even a quote from rival Newt Gingrich lauding Santorum’s Iran policy.
On Wednesday, the former Pennsylvania senator bragged that he was running the leanest of the GOP presidential campaign. . . .
Santorum has been barnstorming the state for months hoping hard work will pay off on Jan. 3, but going on the air will undoubtedly help.
Santorum campaign press release has the transcript:
He’s Rick Santorum.
A loving husband, a devoted father, homeschooler and a man of deep faith.
He wrote the law that banned partial birth abortions.
Overhauled America’s welfare system.
And no one has done more to protect America from Iran’s growing threat than Rick Santorum.
It’s no wonder Palin, Beck and Huckabee are singing his praises.
Now it’s your turn to join the fight.
Meanwhile, a new pro-Santorum “Super PAC” — the Red, White and Blue Fund — has spent a reported $200,000 to air this ad in Iowa:
We all agree Obama’s reckless agenda must be stopped.
But who is the true conservative you can really trust?
Rick Santorum.
He’s fought for conservative values his whole life.
Father, husband a champion for life.
A visionary that saw and understands the threat of radical Islam.
And a proven reformer who took on Washington and won.
Rick Santorum.
Finally a true conservative we can trust.
Permit a necessary digression here: A donnybrook has erupted among some conservatives, typified by Rush Limbaugh’s remarks yesterday about “establishment Republicans [who] are dumping all over Newt Gingrich.” If you read that, you’ll note that El Rushbo also takes on the unexpectedly strong showing by “wacko nut job” Ron Paul. And Limbaugh takes on National Review, which also got a sharp retort from another leading conservative:
Brent Bozell, the nephew of conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., who founded National Review magazine in 1955, and whose father, Leo Brent Bozell, collaborated with Buckley for many years at NR, today dismissed the magazine as having lost the identity forged for it by its founder.
“National Review’s endorsement of Romney & Huntsman proves only that this is no longer the magazine of William F. Buckley Jr.”
But while “movement conservatives” like Limbaugh and Bozell fight the NR punks who have declared war on Gingrich, everyone seems to be united in their opposition to the Ron Paul surge. A conservative friend yesterday e-mailed me a link to an American Spectator item yesterday in which Jeffrey Lord brought up the controversy about the old Ron Paul newsletters and what Lord calls “the and-oh-by-the-way-pay-no-attention-to-all that-anti-Semitic-stuff that trails the Paul candidacy like the little cloud of dirt that used to follow the Peanuts cartoon character Pigpen around.”
Also, Ace notes en passant, Ron Paul is endorsed by Andrew Sullivan.
Need we say more? While I have lamented the anti-Paul crusade, arguing for an effort “to engage the more decent and rational Paulistas” on behalf of a united front against Democratic Party liberalism, I lack the influence necessary to broker such a peace. (For example, having long ago called for Rich Lowry’s ouster from National Review, I could never be published there until Jonah Goldberg finally decides to lead the uprising against the decadent Lowry regime, a long-overdue revolution.) So the internecine war rages on and the question must be asked:
Why not Rick Santorum?
Look, if you’re a “movement conservative” who hates Ron Paul, who is more diametrically opposed to Paulism than Santorum? He’s the pro-Israel neocon warmonger your mother (if your mother is a Paulista) warned you about. By comparison to Santorum, Bibi Netanyahu is a dhimmi pacifist.
OK, he sometimes seems a bit of a scold on the social issues. One of my friends has used the word “sanctimonious” to describe Santorum’s mien in previous debates. But while other Republicans can be accused of unprincipled and insincere pandering to social conservatives, Santorum is a man who argues for the pro-life, pro-family agenda out of sincere religious conviction. He’s a cradle Catholic, a father of seven, married to the same woman for 21 years and (unlike a certain other candidate whom we need not name) there has never been a hint of scandal attached to Santorum’s name. Tina Korbe at Hot Air expresses the mystery:
The Santorum phenomenon is a perplexing one. For, as the ad suggests, Santorum has betrayed conservatism on far fewer occasions than either of the two current frontrunners. . . .
I have to admit, a surprisingly stellar finish in Iowa from Santorum would sit far better with me than, say, a win from Ron Paul and probably Newt Gingrich, too.
The only reason why some leading conservative spokesmen have not backed Santorum, I would suggest, is that they’re afraid to back an underdog. They look at the poll numbers and say to themselves, “Well, I don’t want to embarrass myself by backing a loser.” This is an argument to which I have already made my own reply, borrowing a youthful oration from the future Senator Joseph Blutarsky:
Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! … And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough… The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go! …
What the f— happened to the Delta I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my a– from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this.
“Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh?”
You may say it’s hopeless, that a candidate running a low-budget campaign with single-digit poll numbers cannot, with just 18 days to go before the Jan. 3 caucuses, suddenly surge ahead to win Iowa. And why not? Because “we’re afraid to go with you Bluto.”
All it would take is a few minutes of careful praise from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin — maybe they could contact the Santorum campaign and do on-air interviews with the candidate — to light the fuse on a powder keg that could explode all the predictions of the pundits and pollsters in Iowa.
You, the ordinary “civilian” reader of this blog, are probably saying to yourself: “But that’s not going to happen.”
And why not? Because “we’re afraid to go with you Bluto.”
Can’t you e-mail this post to Rush, Sean and Mark? Can’t you post it on Facebook, send it out on Twitter, circulate it by e-mail to your friends? Yes — yes, you could do that.
As I said during the 2009 Doug Hoffman campaign, the key thing is this: “Stop asking what you can do, and start doing what you can.”
You can “join the fight” for Rick Santorum right now.
RICK SANTORUM
‘NO SURRENDER’
MONEY BOMB
RECENTLY:
- Dec. 14: Christine O’Donnell Endorses Mitt Romney; Des Moines City Council Member Endorses Rick Santorum
- Dec. 13: Rick Santorum: Beer Gourmet?
- Dec. 13: Santorum Surge: New Poll Shows Gains in Iowa, Closing in on Perry, Bachmann
- Dec. 13: Santorum: The ‘Least Worst’ Candidate?
- Dec. 12: SANTORUM EXPRESS UPDATE: Pulls Even With Bachmann in New Iowa Poll, Gains Endorsement by Influential Pastor
- Dec. 11: Santorum: Election ‘About Obama’
- Dec. 10: VIDEO: Santorum on Hannity
- Dec. 9: Santorum ‘Planning to Win’ in Iowa
- Dec. 9: Santorum Surge Gets Boost From Endorsements by Anti-Jihad Blogger, Conservative Billionaire and Iowa Secretary of State, But Mainly …
- Dec. 8: Miracles Keep Happening Every Day
- Dec. 8: ’10,000 Marbles, Please’
- Dec. 7: Rick Santorum: Praise by Sarah Palin ‘Absolutely Critical’ to His Money Surge
- Dec. 6: Guess Who Says, ‘Santorum’s Time’?
- Dec. 5: SANTORUM VOWS: ‘NO SURRENDER!’
- Dec. 4: SANTORUM EXPRESS SUNDAY: Conservative Gets Unexpected Endorsement by Tea Party Blogger
- Dec. 4: SANTORUM EXPRESS SUNDAY: Criticizes Newt Gingrich During Appearance on ABC’s ‘This Week’ UPDATE: Complete Video Added
- Dec. 4: SANTORUM EXPRESS SUNDAY: Complete Iowa Tour Schedule
- Dec. 3: Destination Iowa: The Intersection of Preparation and Opportunity
- Dec. 2: Santorum Praised by Sarah Palin on Fox; Endorsed by Key Iowa Evangelical Pastor
- Dec. 1: Campaign Update: Rick Santorum Adds Friday Event in Merrimack, N.H.
- Dec. 1: BULLETIN: Earthquake Hits Vanuatu as Santorum Vows on National TV: ‘We’re Going to Surprise a Lot of People’ in Iowa
- Dec. 1: Santorum Heading to N.H. Friday
- Nov. 22: Santorum Claims Victory in CNN Debate UPDATE: Gingrich Goes Soft?
- Nov. 16: Good Question, Tina
- Nov. 12: RICK SANTORUM AFTER DEBATE
LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT – 12.16.11
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 7 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
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Christopher Hitchens, R.I.P.
Posted on | December 16, 2011 | 25 Comments
Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq, died Thursday at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62.
The cause was pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer, said the magazine Vanity Fair, which announced the death.
Christopher Hitchens could tell a joke better than anyone I’ve ever met. I saw him do a stand-up routine at a benefit for the “PlameGate Two” in 2007 and nearly busted a gut laughing. It was not merely the jokes themselves that made me laugh so much. Rather, it was the way he delivered them.
So when I encountered Hitch at a Reason magazine happy hour near Dupont Circle later that year, I insisted that he tell some more jokes. He agreed to do this, so long as I kept the whiskey coming. He preferred Johnny Walker, but I can’t remember whether it was black or red label. At any rate, as long as I was buying the whiskey, Hitch kept telling jokes, and he went on for more than an hour, to the great amusement of myself and several friends.
Hitchens was a notorious atheist, alas. But he could tell a joke.
UPDATE: Joy McCann has an aggregation and her own thoughts:
This one is very, very hard; I’m trying to remember the last time I cried at the death of a public figure.
Emotion is useless. We will miss them in their absence — never another chance to trade whiskey for jokes — but we ought to remember their lives more than we mourn their deaths.
UPDATE II: Ace knew Hitchens, too:
He was 62. When I saw him a few years ago . . . he acted as if he was 25.
Indeed, from his fondness for ribald jokes to his iconclastic mockery, Hitchens was eternally the prankish schoolboy.
UPDATE III: Michelle Malkin offers some very personal memories and adds:
His writings on Muslim jihadists, Islamic rage boy syndrome, and sharia law were especially compelling — and his fearless work on those topics was cited here numerous times over the years.
The Vanity Fair obit aptly calls him a “bon vivant”:
At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else — just as he had been for the last four decades.
It is important to note that Hitchens was not one of these sit-at-home-and-snark writers, but was a world-traveling reporter.
A. Because She’s a Slut
Posted on | December 15, 2011 | 63 Comments
Q. Why does a woman get the “Brazilian wax”?
Full pubic hair removal, according to Herbenick’s studies, is most common among sexually active women . . . who are not in monogamous relationships.
Like pierced bellybuttons and tattoos, this is a trend popular with hussies, harlots, trollops, tramps, vamps, floozies and whores.
That article was linked by Professor Glenn Reynolds, who can’t be judgmental like that, because it would probably be a civil rights violation or something. He’d have the entire UT Womyn’s Studies Department picketing his office if he dared express disapprobation of “sexually active women . . . who are not in monogamous relationships.”
And they don’t call ’em “Volunteers” for nothing. IYKWIMAITYD.
The fine Southeastern Conference tradition of trash-talking one’s football opponents — 37-6, Roll Tide! — certainly extends to the opponent’s womenfolk. For example, everybody in Tuscaloosa knows why Auburn installed artificial turf at Jordan-Hare Stadium: To prevent the homecoming queen from grazing.
By similar token, while I don’t want to say that all Tennessee coeds are wantonly promiscuous, there are certain words you can’t spell without “UT,” among them “slut” and “put out.”
Do Tennessee fans take umbrage at such ribald putdowns? Of course they do — and that’s exactly my point. If promiscuity did not inspire an instinctive moral horror, then there would be no offense in saying that UT coeds put out like Pez dispensers.
Contrary to feminist dogma, the stigma attached to “sexually active women . . . who are not in monogamous relationships” isn’t a learned response inculcated by The Patriarchy, but rather a reflection of our innate sense that such behavior is contrary to the social good.
Our basic sense of right and wrong can be ignored or suppressed — evil can and is “normalized” by our popular culture — but the moral sense can never be entirely eradicated. However much society tries to pretend that Good and Evil are not valid categories, our moral sense will find expression in some way.
The feminist campaign against “slut-shaming” is thus doomed to failure, because being a slut will always be a shameful thing, no matter how strenuously the political correctoids try to prevent us from saying so.
And if any feminist is offended by my saying so — good. You deserve to offended and often, and by someone who knows how.
UPDATE: Roxeanne De Luca asks the key question:
Young women of the world: have you all gone mental?
Indeed. The insecurities on display — “Will the guy who picks me up in a bar be disgusted if I my nether regions are not ‘well-groomed’?” — are a perfect illustration of how sexual “liberation” has resulted in a new slavery: Women now groan under the yoke of sexual expectations created by pornographers.
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