June 2012

Wisconsin is abuzz with activity in anticipation of Tuesday's Recall election, and many Tea Party and conservative leaders are ensuring the message gets out that this is not a battle against the union members themselves. Nancy Milholland, who organized yesterday's Tea Party, opened the rally by...

Elizabeth Warren is the Democratic Party nominee for Senate, after party leaders twisted arms to make sure Marisa DeFranco did not make the primary ballot. Warren may have become the nominee, but she's still not Native American. Whereas prior to May 2012 one might have said Warren simply believed what...

I posted previously about Mayor Michael Bloomberg's large sugary soda ban plan, The never-ending cycle of nanny government. The Center for Consumer Freedom placed this full page ad in The New York Times yesterday: ...

I've enjoyed covering the blog for much of the day today while the Professor was out. Since there's no Saturday Night Card Game tonight, here are a couple of links to stories from the day that we didn't get a chance to cover. U.S. and Iran...

While it isn't a new strategy, it seems as if the left has recently been ratcheting up its utilization of the stonewalling tactic when confronted by high profile controversy. Elizabeth Warren, who continues to show no signs of ever engaging in an honest discussion with the...

In the latest CNN Presidential poll, Romney is trailing President Obama by just 3 points, making him within the statistical margin of error for the sampling. The new numbers mean that the President has dropped 6 points in a little over a month. Via Breitbart.com: Last...

Results are trickling in. I'm having trouble finding any webpages with official results as of this moment, but the Twittersphere has reported that Elizabeth Warren received 95.77% of the vote. If this is confirmed, Warren will have successfully secured the Democratic nomination and won't be forced...

Ann Althouse (via Instapundit) has a post about a mailer she received from a pro-Recall group in Wisconsin telling her which of her neighbors voted and which did not in the past several years.  Althouse's reaction: This is an effort to shame and pressure people about voting, and...

Anne is on the ground right now in Wisconsin at a Tea Party rally to support Governor Walker and Lt. Gov. Kleefisch leading up to their recall election on Tuesday. Several thousand, including some very notable conservatives, have turned out to show their support. Said Anne: Congressman Paul Ryan...

That was the theme I saw developing with much of the early coverage when it was announced that Justin Combs, son of music mogul P.Diddy, earned a $54,000 athletic scholarship to attend UCLA in the fall. By all accounts Combs certainly earned his athletic scholarship, achieving...