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March 2012

Newt Gringrich appeared at Tulane University yesterday the day before the primary.  The overflow crowd necessitated that speakers be set up outside the lecture hall so those who could not get in could hear the speech. When a professor complained, the volume was lowered, but that...

I mean, you know, the guy who made the gutsiest call and most audacious plan in the past 500 years. From Linda in Tennessee, who spotted this vehicle at Macy's in Frankin, TN: ...

Pop! Goes Carbonite backup service just after announcing 'World Backup Day' (h/t @markinct, who asks: Are you responsible?) Pop! Goes Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals under Obamacare. Pop! Goes Peter Lewis' Donations to Democracy Alliance, The Liberal Donor Network.  Yes, but has Flo popped too? Pop! Goes the Law School Bubble. Pop! Goes the Lawsuit challenging...

Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, that much is certain.  It is a tragedy for the Martin family. It's not worth opining on the facts, as so many are doing, because we don't have enough facts, much less all the facts. Was Zimmerman, who is...

Sign of trouble No. 1:  Warren is running to the left of Obama on gay marriage and portraying herself as heroic, apparently, per Greg Sargent (via Instapundit): In an interesting move, Elizabeth Warren comes out and calls on the leader of the Democratic Party to complete...

This analysis by Topsy Analytics show the volume of tweets using the two most popular hasttags for the various boycott Rush groups, #StopRush and #BoycottRush. What it shows is that activity peaked from Friday, March 2 - Monday, March 5. There still is activity, but nothing...

Two years ago today Obamacare was signed into law: Mr. Obama signed the measure, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, during a festive and at times raucous ceremony in the East Room of the White House. He spoke to an audience of nearly 300, including...

It's really good to see you once again. From reader David: Haven’t seen this one on your site, yet. Spotted in Raleigh NC this weekend, from the passenger seat, of course. ...

Dick Lugar has a lot of campaign money. But he has problems.  In a Tea Party age he is a paradigm of insider Washington politics gone bad (for conservatives).  He has a questionable residence in Indiana, and his local election board even said he couldn't vote because...

From Seth Mandel: When foreign policy “realists,” pseudo-realists, and leftists claim that the pro-Israel establishment is preventing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, their argument fails to account for one aspect of recent Mideast history: During the administrations of American presidents seen as favoring Israel, the Jewish state’s...

When Dennis Kucinich lost his primary in a new district which required him to compete against an incumbent, I was disappointed. We need a Dennis Kucinich, someone by whom others can be measured -- vertically, psychologically, dentally, and bumperstically. Run in Washington State, Dennis, Run: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)...

A state senate race in a normally safe Democratic district in New York has Democrats worried.  (h/t reader Tom) Down to the wire in too-close-to-call Southern Brooklyn Senate race (emphasis mine): The too-close-to-call state Senate race in southern Brooklyn was down to the  wire Wednesday, with Republican David ...

Just as Bill Maher was pleading for an "amnesty" in the political correctness war to silence speech, Media Matters was committing $100,000 to an advertising campaign urging people to call local radio stations to complain about Limbaugh.  Via AP: The liberal Media Matters for America is...

We live in a world where groups like Media Matters and Think Progress monitor and record every word uttered by any conservative of prominence in the media, hoping to find something "insensitive" with which to mount a campaign to silence the speaker through intimidation of advertisers. So...

Update 3-22-2012:  The Toulouse killer was killed in a police raid overnight: Police stormed the flat where Mohammed Merah was holed up at 09:30 GMT, after a siege that had lasted 32 hours. Merah fired at officers and was found dead after jumping from a window. ------------------------------------ Reports of...

Google has done away with Friend Connect for non-Blogspot blogs, which means that 800+ people who followed me that way no longer can do so. If you are one of the people who followed that way, you can sign up for the RSS feed. I also started...