It has been an active year at the Saturday Night Card Game. Here are some of my favorite games of the past year:
It has been quite a year here at Legal Insurrection.
The big event was the blog format switchover in mid-June. I’m very happy with the transition, and even happier with the new software and format. If you need help with a new or old blog, I highly recommend Ed Burns.
We now have...
A collection of things:
Here were my “not predictions” for 2011, graded:
I would not classify the following as predictions unless they come true, in which case I am a genius. Here are some things I’m looking at in...
The second Mitt Romney announced he would not release his income tax returns if he becomes nominee I predicted it would not stand because the refusal would, at a minimum, create a major distraction. It’s part of a larger problem with secrecy which will haunt Romney if he is the nominee.
The most likely...
The Best Bumper Sticker of the Year, Worst Bumper Sticker of the Year and Best Tweet of the Year competitions have left me on the verge of blogger burnout, but I soldier on, because that’s just the way I am. And the internet never stops.
The Worst Tweet of the Year competition w...
I posted earlier about Newt Gingrich’s emotional discussion of his mother, in which he shed tears while discussing his memories.
What kind of person would make fun of this, and what type of supporters laugh in response?
Mitt tweaks Newt: ‘I won’t cry’:
POLITICO’s Emily Schultheis, on the trail with Mitt Romney in New Hampshire,...
Rick Santorum backed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004. It was a tough race with Toomey mounting a credible, well-financed challenge.
Toomey’s candidacy, by his own estimation, was one of the precursors to the Tea Party movement:
The “battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party” between big spending moderates and committed...
It’s the major headline at Drudge:
But the headline suggests it’s a reaction to polling, but instead it was questioning by Frank Luntz about Newt’s mother.
The most poignant moment to me was not the discussion of his mother but at 4:25 when he recounted a story told by a young mother about how...
Who would have expected it. Ann Coulter in her endorsement of Mitt Romney gave a very misleading account of Rick Santorum’s immigration record, asserting that he voted against E-Verify.
Ann’s a lawyer, so she knows that omitting material facts can be just as much a fraud as stating false facts. And Ann...
Readers have been emailing me about the dangers of the Stop
Online Privacy [wow, what a slip] Piracy Act but I’ve
been a bit distracted. Here’s the concern from the
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The “Stop Online Piracy Act”/”E-PARASITE Act” (SOPA) and “The PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) are the latest in a series...
Via Byron York, a preview of a book by Boston journalist Ronald Scott:
According to Scott, Romney revealed that polling from Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan’s former pollster whom Romney had hired for the ’94 campaign, showed it would be impossible for a pro-life candidate to win statewide...
“Why Is No One Attacking Romney?” That’s the question I have been pounding all fall, particularly in the past 6 weeks. It’s also the question asked by Alex Roarty at National Journal:
It’s an old story this primary, where Romney has not faced the kind of withering attacks that normally confront a...
The Best Tweet of the Year competition was really, really tough. There were so many great tweets arising out of the Occupy Wall Street protests that it could have been its own category. Not surprisingly, Obama also was a hot topic.
I excluded from consideration tweets regarding the Republican primary candidates; since...
One of the conspiracy theories floating around the comment section here and elsewhere was that Michele Bachmann served as the attack dog against everyone but Romney in the hope of gaining a VP nod.
The speculation was fueled by Bachmann’s relentless and often inaccurate attacks on everyone who rose to be the lead...
