Saturday, January 19, 2008

Close, but no cigar

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Ahh, to have George Burns' victory cigar right now. Alas, it appears that Fred is locked into 3rd . This is not the knockout blow of whi...
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Better than expected?

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CNN puts Freddy-Mac in 3rd , while NRO's Jim Geraghty waxes eloquent on the seeming limits of Fred's appeal. NRO's Campaign Sp...

Broken-glass voting

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According to Sister Toldjah , the voter turnout in SoCo is low. Early exit voting has McCain & Huckster in the lead. So anyone who wish...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Swinging Mo'

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Even Rush Limbaugh & Richard Land have noticed the big M'o for Fred. Land sees South Carolina as Fred's to lose . Eric Erikson ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Pale Pastels & Taxes

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One of the plethora of slogans in 1980 that helped make Ronald Reagan’s ideas workable was the slogan “no more pale pastels.” He opposed hav...

Poll Variables

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The Clemson University Palmetto Poll (.pdf) claims McCain leads and Fred's 4th. It has many weaknesses. 1st: it has about a 5% margin o...

Huckabee freefall

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The Huckster seems to be dropping fast. First RCP's SoCo poll avg has him as the only candidate dropping in the polls for the last week...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Engergy Independence

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On CNN Fred talked about the US economy and pushed for a fuel position that keeps us from Saudi caterwauling . His view is that It's not...

The Rise of Fringe Candidates

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Let me add my two cents worth to the debate as to why the Huckster & Paulus have so many votes. Many of my acquaintances are Firm Protes...

Fred Slowing

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According to Zogby & Clemson University it appears as if Fred might only make it to 3rd place in SoCo. Right now he is in a statistical...
Monday, January 14, 2008

The Yard Sign Argument

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All this talk of Fredmentum reminds me of the old argument that many callers make to talk radio hosts: There are bunches of political and pr...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Fredmentum - TM

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Looks like news of Fred is getting out. Track that to the date when this blog endorsed Fred for POTUS in IA . Human Events endorsed Fred Th...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Michigan turnover

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A new coach enters the coaching fraternity of a major University, has no ties to the Institution, axes all the assistants (except 1) who ha...

There Goes Reason

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Maybe it's because he did not receive the airtime of the other candidates, but seemingly the only Voice of Realism has dropped out of t...

Yogi Berra's Fork

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"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." So goes the legendary quote of Yankee's catcher Yogi Berra. Thompson has a for...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Thompson

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Having endorsed Thompson for Veep, the esteemed Mr. Lowry raises the possibility of the Scarecrow becoming Veep for McCain(RINO). If that...

Hard NH numbers

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*Updated* Here are my hard numbers : Got to CNN for other ones. The totals are that out of the nearly 851,000 (850,836)votes possible in NH...

Sweeping up after

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It remains to be seen whether Fred Thompson's NH vote total can score more votes than this blog has gotten hits. So far, he's not w...

Randomizer

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Sometimes (ok, many times) Microsoft Word annoys me. So many words that should be recalled in their spell-check database are not. The words...

Mitt & flip-flopping

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It seems to me that the (R) candidates are going about the flip-flopping the wrong way. Q: Who ran for the Senate as a Whig candidate in 185...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Sipping Cat-Poo Coffee

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One way I stayed awake while twice driving cross-country was coffee. I drank so much during those trips and during the 2-week holiday season...

Atlas Blogging

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Our endorsement of Fred Thompson helped push him into 3rd place in Iowa. NH is a different mark. Think VP for Fred. My friends: We did it. W...

Atlas Blogging II

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The power of this blog continues to reverberate. About a year ago, this blog linked Hillary with Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith . Ever...

Return

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I have now also heard some Ron Paul Radio Ads in Michigan, so the front-runner Romney might be in for a struggle, ala Iowa My friends: We di...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Day off

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There will be very little blogging today as the family drives back home to Northern Colorado from Western Michigan via I-80 through Iowa jus...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

This crazy season

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A front-runner who really isn't, but is, in a way . My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We ma...

Hope

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There is good news from Iraq. Michael Totten has all the info. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a differen...

The Dog Muzzlers

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Earlier today, this blog criticized Thompson for his stance on the McCain-Feingold muzzle, while others implicitly did the same thing. Quic...

Voting & preferences.

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With the seeming appearance of Hillary cratering in Iowa, it just might happen that the Reagan coalition will not push the any of (R) cand...

Big League Ball

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No sooner does this blog crow about its great stature, than does the truth come out. D-League ball on this ball, while the Big League All-St...

A Yoast to Victory

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What made New Year's day worthwhile . It's also worth a video recap . Now my team starts afresh with a coach with a cloud of suspici...

Michigan Blogging

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I came home for the holidays back to Michigan. So far have I heard only Mitt Romney on the radio touting how he cut wasteful spending in MA ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Atlas Blogging

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Classical Greek mythology spoke of Atlas, the god who held up the world on his shoulders, as a punishment. Should he move at all, the whole ...

Iowa

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On Jan. 3, vote for Fred Thompson Iowa voters, though Mitt Romney would not be a bad choice for second. Here is a gala of videos about Fred:...

How Sad

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Via Instapundit & Gateway Pundit , we learn that She-who-shall-not-be-named will try to wreck the atmosphere of the Rose Parade and thi...
Monday, December 31, 2007

One-of-a-kind

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, important events took place and Dave Barry catalogued them all in the Miami Herald, kinda. Note ye well that t...

Into the Wilderness

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In Pakistan the political party of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan People's Party (PPP), is choosing a path to political...

Good Cameras & Bad

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My mother uses a Nikon Coolpix 5600, 5.1 mp with a 3x zoom that takes mediuim quality pictures and uses rechargeable AA Energizer batteries ...

What a Year

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After a 10 month hiatus, I return and low and behold, the influence of this blog only magnifies with time. 1) Giuliani's campaign is tan...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

A Freudian Campaign

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On my Christmas trip back home, I trekked through Iowa and near I-80 saw a John Edwards campaign sign that seemed quite Freudian. It said ht...

Iowa's worth - while or less- caucus

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Over at the Washington Post's blog Right Matters , renowned conservative and pro-life commentator Ramesh Ponnuru criticizes the Iowa ca...
Saturday, February 24, 2007

Guilani: no pro-lifer

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I disagree with the American Thinker blogger Kyle Ann-Shiver over what POTUS can do for the pro-life position. She lists 3 main power that ...
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JKB returns

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JKB is back with an article that one would expect from him: the need for gun freedom vis-a-vis the 2nd Amendment. The historical narrative...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Only in America

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The definition of Slow News Day , followed by the bizarre and the strangely fascinating continues to unfold, while the Witch of Endor rid...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Senate shakes and runs

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As Instapundit links to here , the entire US Senate cowed before our blogswarm post about Cinco de Porkbustero. Who knows, maybe the GOP has...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Cinco de Porkbustero

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Well, well: Porkbusters go international . Let's hope McConnell, Lott, Blunt and Boehner are reading this, [w]e will account for every p...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Misery loves company

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This makes me happy: my schadenfreude "We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and wo...
Monday, November 27, 2006

Election aftermath

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Well, the election is over and my guy lost, big-time. He got walloped, while I did nothing over here. I could give a litany of reasons for...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

Blackwell's poll surge?

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An Aug 29 - Sept 5 Zogby Interactive online poll showcases JKB as surging. While the Rasmussen Report said that Blackwell was getting wall...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

More Blackwell victory

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Steve Hoffman's post-debate commentary in the Sept. 8 Akron Beacon Journal merits consideration. He basically claims that debates have...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

Debate followup:Blackwellian (update)

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JKB has a new education ad up at YouTube (HT Right Angle Blog) . I don't know if the ad is especially ground-breaking, but I love the f...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Debate 1 held today (updated) JKB winning

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The first debate between Strickland/Blackwell was held today at noon in Youngstown, OH, on an open topic. The WFMJ 21 news has a complete...
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Monday, September 04, 2006

Labor Unions buy Strickland

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And, in the "Mankind dies without Oxygen" type of headline, the Dayton Daily News posted a Sept. 4 story reporting that Labor Un...

Strickland's poor leadership

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There are more doubts about Strickland's leadership. Phillip Morris, associate editor of the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer's editorial p...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Strickland's problems

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Mark Gottlieb predicts in the August 16 Dayton Daily News on page A16 (commentary) about what will happen in the election. Making political...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Blackwell risin'

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JKB has shown his leadership skills again by setting up the debates. Even the opposition organ, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer notes in an ...
Monday, May 29, 2006

Strickland seeks Hillary, Kerry approval

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Ted Strickland was busted on Friday, May 19, when he sidled into New York for a fund-raiser hosted by Hillary Rhodam Clinton . To show his...

JKB's legislative influence

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Blackwell's influence is showing in his poll gains but also in his getting laws passed, and only as a candidate for governor. Jim Siegel...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Blackwell gaining in polls

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The Dayton Daily News and AP promote a recent Unniversity of Cinncinati-sponosored poll that shows Blackwell gaining in the polls. This pol...
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Sunday, May 14, 2006

Blackwell the racist: part 1,543,428

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The Dayton Daily News runs a May 10 editorial (free reg req) that hints at Blackwell being a racial sell-out and ends up giving him a good-b...
Saturday, May 13, 2006

Blackwell the Racist: part 1,543,427

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The race card is out after Blackwell's primary victory . The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) ran a May 10 column by Ohio University's Tho...

Blackwell is racist: part 1,543,426

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An AP report (via Lexis-Nexis) on May 8 stongly hints that Ohio's black state Treasurer Jenette Bradley lost because she is black and fe...