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Huck Yes but Romney No? Why, Clay?
Over at Slapstick Politics, El Presidente provides a brief digest of Colorado conservative blogosphere voices on the Presidential race. My opinions are well known by readers here, but I was a little befuddled to read the order of candidate preference from my friend Clay Calhoun, who blessedly appears to have returned from a long exile. In particular, I'm pleased to see he allies first with Fred Dalton Thompson, but for the life of me can't figure out why the Huckster comes in second. I can understand the skepticism about McCain and Giuliani and Ron Paul, but can't quite understand the seemingly knee-jerk antipathy for Mitt Romney:No thank you very much. I will vote for a Democrat before I will vote for Mitt Romney. End of … [Read more...]
Get the President’s Ear on Earmark Reform
An email from our friends at RedState.com:Dear RedState Reader, Tomorrow the President will decide whether or not the Constitution is still a legally binding document. Seriously. After Congress passed the omnibus spending bill, members of Congress inserted into the conference report that accompanied the legislation more than 9,000 earmarks worth several billion dollars. The earmarks were not voted on by the House and Senate. Yet, Congress maintains that the earmarks are legally binding. This violates the process for passing legislation in the Constitution of the United States. Tomorrow, the President will decide whether he should issue an executive order telling government agencies to ignore the earmarks. If the President … [Read more...]
School Choice for Kids Website
I have been remiss in not blogging about this sooner, but many of my readers probably aren't aware of an innovative new website created by the Independence Institute (full disclosure: where I work), a website created and maintained in part by a lot of intensive labor from my own Mrs. Virtus. If you are a parent of school-age children in Colorado, nor if you care at all about education reform, please pay attention. You can watch this 28-minute video recently aired on Colorado public television to learn more about the School Choice for Kids website (and/or read about some of the site's features below): Add to My Profile | More Videos The School Choice for Kids site contains significant information about every public school in … [Read more...]
Brief Iowa Postmortem
Update: Other members of the Rocky Mountain Alliance have weighed in: The Daily Blogster Best Destiny Exvigilare Thinking Right And one from another great conservative Colorado blogger: Slapstick Politics I have neither the time nor the inclination to weigh in on all the vast amounts of political analysis following yesterday's Iowa caucuses (or as Red State colorfully put it, the Hawkeye Caucii). But I will observe how troublesome it is for our nation and its two great political parties that (a little more than 6+ years after 9/11) last night's winners - Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee - are the respective Democrat and Republican candidates most unqualified in matters of foreign policy and most unserious about national security … [Read more...]
More Iowa Caucus Predictions
After yesterday's foray into forecasting the results of today's first presidential balloting of 2008, you can find more Iowa caucus prediction contests over at Election Projection. Interesting stuff - check it out. If you're a political junkie but don't check in with Scott Elliott ("The Blogging Caesar") from time to time, you're really missing out. Also, you can toss your hat into Patrick Ruffini's Townhall Iowa Caucus Pool. Most contests, including the one hosted by the Rocky Mountain News, stop taking entries after 6 PM Eastern or 4 PM Mountain. Then we can watch the real results roll in, and find out which pundits earn bragging rights and which will eat humble pie. Go, Fred, Go! … [Read more...]
Fred Speaks, Voters Listen
Fred Thompson delivers a 17-minute video message to Iowa voters, indeed all Americans, on the eve of the caucus and the first ballots cast in the 2008 Presidential contest. Conservatives and independent-minded voters who are willing to give serious deliberation to the Presidential election, and all those who are undecided or uncertain in their support for a candidate (not the Hugh Hewitts of the world - whose fingers are perpetually lodged in their ears while they loudly mumble, "La la la la la, Mitt Romney, la la la la la ... I can't hear you ... Romney, Romney, Romney") need to view this message. If you haven't watched it yet, why not? … [Read more...]
Get Out Your Crystal Balls for Tomorrow’s Iowa Caucuses
M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News "Back Roads to the White House" blog is soliciting your predictions of results for tomorrow's Iowa caucuses:We need you to make your official, time-stamped predictions for the final rankings in the Iowa precinct caucuses -- among Republicans and Democrats. Give us your best guesses. Include delegate percentages, predicted concession speech language, or other arbitrary details for extra credit. And in the opinion of the judge, the person who makes the most accurate, most detailed prediction for the actual result ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PARTISAN DIVIDE will win a very special prize package of back roads collectables -- assembled over the past several months by your weary correspondent. Be … [Read more...]
Not about the Rebel Yell
Fellow blogger Snaggle-Tooth Jones has leveled a misguided attack:This here's a YouTube video showin' a 1938 reunion of Confederate and Yankee soldiers on the field of Gettysburg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1byof4IAHk Now, here's a litte question for Ben DeGrow and the othah no-account neocons (and damn fool libruls) who 'r vexed over All Things Confederate: why do ye suppose these men cud get together in such a spirit of civility, if not chivalry? I'd like to hear from ye in my commints box, Ben DeGrow. Why d' ye 'spose U.S. Grant happily tolerated the playin' of "Dixie" at this here event? Or why do ye 'spose that Grant was so magnanimous at Lee's surrender at Appomattox? Or why Lee defended Grant when one of his … [Read more...]
Rebutting Huckabee Redux
Rossputin has reposted a comment I left in response to some incoherent pro-Huckabee remarks made on his site. Here's how I concluded:I'm writing to implore GOP primary voters to think seriously about their decisions. If you're going to support Huckabee, fine, but only if you at least got there by coming to grips with his record and having given some thought to a couple broad questions: 1) What would his foreign and domestic policy prescriptions really mean for our country? and 2) What are the odds he could actually win a general election? Writing as a Baptist born-again Christian, let me remind you we are electing a President, not a pastor. Go ahead, and read the whole thing. … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas: 1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. 6While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because … [Read more...]
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