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Would Early Primaries Allow More Donations?
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
One of the interesting aspects of politics is finding out that opponents are people, too. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft met Rep. Tom Tancredo backstage at NBC's studios, and found him more likable than she had anticipated. Perhaps it was their mutual interest in Dog, The Bounty Hunter ...
Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
That's what CAIR says, according to Joe Kaufman. He has a link to a CAIR official's blog post that calls Lieberman, along with John Bolton, former CIA director James Woolsey, and the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes as "extremists". Affad Shaikh also calls Dick Cheney a "fat bastard of a liar," apparently not meant as a pop-culture reference to the Austin Powers movies. (via Let Freedom Ring)
Broadband Homelessness
The Japanese have made homelessness more efficient, and more Net-friendly, too. Their Internet cafés have become homeless shelters for the struggling manual-labor sector. The problem has grown into such a problem that government intervention will shortly become a political priority.
Found My Law Firm
Power Line links twice to this story regarding an attorney at Faegre & Benson who refused to become a victim and helped capture a very dangerous man. Keith Radtke is a partner in the firm as is Power Line's John Hinderaker. Radtke is listed in satisfactory condition after getting shot in the back, but that didn't keep him from locking up his attacker in a wrestling grip until police could arrive. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of man I'd want as my counsel ....
Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
The latest in spam seems to be redirections from YouTube links in e-mail to IP addresses without domain names. They attempt to entice people by making it seem that they have been inadvertently YouTubed. I'm sure most people can see through this scam, but just in case, you've been warned ....
Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
Rick Moran has kept us up to date on his travails along the Algonquin River. Yesterday, the police showed up to get him evacuated before the river flooded his home -- but today, Rick finds that a minor miracle has taken place, and that his house survives ... at least for now. Keep Rick in your prayers, and keep checking in at Right Wing Nut House for updates.
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Comments (10)
Posted by onlineanalyst | August 1, 2007 1:51 PM
Not only is Rush informed and informative, he is funny. He manages to puncture a lot of Lefty pomposities with elan.
Posted by Stix | August 1, 2007 2:30 PM
Before Rush I was apolitical and didn't care who was elected. But after lsitening to his irreverent humor and seeing how intellignet he was, i was hooked and began my journey to becoming a conservative.
Happy B-Day Rush Limbaugh show
Posted by brooklyn | August 1, 2007 2:48 PM
Hooray !
Many more for the mighty EIB...
Hell, when is that legend going to let the fine Captain sit in on in front of the GOLDEN Microphone for a day?
Posted by fourpointer | August 1, 2007 3:51 PM
He's a huge part of the reason I'm a Reagan conservative today. I used to be a "moderate" (wasn't going to be a conservative, but not quite a liberal). On the way home from work, he was about the only thing to listen to on the radio. After a while, I started getting ticked off. I couldn't argue anything he was saying since he made so much sense.
Thank you Rush for helping me grow a brain!
Posted by crossdotcurve | August 1, 2007 5:00 PM
Mr. HillbillyHeroin is one of the most destructive forces in the American public forum. When our country most needs to be united, he spends three hours a day frothing at the mouth against half the country.
Truly an awful person.
Oh, and a coward as well. Incapable of engaging in debate.
Posted by Jose Sanchez | August 1, 2007 5:56 PM
Cross:
Yours was a mean spirited outburst that is so typical of the intolerant left.
Posted by Monkei | August 1, 2007 9:15 PM
Jose ... mean spirited left? Do you regularly sleep through Coulter's, O'Reilly's, Hannity's and Limbaugh's comments?
Mean spirited ... just like corruption, it's part of both parties talking heads ...
Get down of your GOP high horse!
Posted by jaeger51 | August 1, 2007 9:55 PM
Congrats also to Sir Rush....he started an industry that will eventually change the country by giving millions of Americans a voice that wasn't mainstream PC liberal. Others have followed, both on air and online. History will look back and give Rush his credit, just as Reagan was reviled while in office but is now considered one of the greatest presidents.
Posted by MICHAEL DOOLEY | August 2, 2007 5:34 AM
Before Rush, we had National Review, The American Spectator, and several other publications did all the heavy lifting. They did heroic work; but their reach was always in slow growth.
I remember the odd news item in the late 1980's about a new talk show aimed at a daytime listenership. Experts discounted it as doomed before it came out of the box. Now we have an explosion of conservative talk.
Yes, Rush supplies commentary on the news of the day in "real time"; but I believe his real value is that across great distances conservatives can talk to each other. We are no longer isolated and we have access to some of the best political conversation in the media--period.
This is why many in Congress want to shut talk radio down. They want to go back to the "good old days" when the only people who bothered them were the "kooks". If conservatives loose contact with each other, that's what we'll get.
Posted by Keemo | August 2, 2007 7:05 AM
Rush is "dead on target" with his information about 98% of the time... Rush has the number "1" talk radio program for a very simple reason; accurate, passionate, & entertaining...
The left hates Rush (crossdotcurve is the norm) simply because he pulls their covers, while exposing what the truth is behind the lies. Getting busted as being wrong; busted at falling in line with those that resent America & Americans; busted at willfully wanting an American defeat; busted at willfully accusing our warriors of murder, rape, and torture; busted at directing our country towards Socialism, while rewriting the constitution by way of Liberal Judges... Well folks, if I was a part of those things mentioned above, and some radio head came along and told 20 million people that I was a part of those actions; I'd hate the guy also...
Rock on Rush.....