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August 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2012 4 Comments

Reader Charles writes: It's been something of a good week for conservatives, hasn't it? Ted Cruz's victory on Milton Friedman's birthday seems to take the cake, as it were, as did Romney's overseas trip and Glenn Beck's Restoring Love. It's at that last event in Arlington, Texas where I...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 02, 2012 17 Comments

Over the past 24 hours, we have been compiling Legal Insurrection and others' Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day pics from across the country and plotting them on a map by location. Click on a placeholder to see the pictures taken at that spot; zoom and pan across...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2012 96 Comments

Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day has proven something I've noticed before. Conservatives are very good at buycotts, but very bad at boycotts. There have been attempts by some conservative and religious groups to boycott various businesses over political issues. But I can't think of one, at least not recently,...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 01, 2012 50 Comments

We've been compiling Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day photos here and on our google map (click to see the map here). [caption id="attachment_28726" align="alignnone" width="300"] Tim, Knoxville, TN[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28817" align="alignnone" width="300"] Tom, Grand Junction, CO[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28744" align="alignnone" width="300"] L, Tulsa, OK[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28746" align="alignnone" width="300"] Anonymous, Peabody, MA[/caption] [caption id="attachment_28760"...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 01, 2012 81 Comments

Some of you asked just what the scene's like on Chick-fil-A appreciation day in Chicago, home to #ChicagoValues, and the city at the heart of the controversy over Chick-fil-A after our mayor congratulated an alderman in shutting the company out of opening a second location...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2012 7 Comments

Here is Ted Cruz's victory speech last night in its entirety. ...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 01, 2012 62 Comments

Today is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, where supporters of the restaurant chain use their dollars to eat at the restaurant and show appreciation for the company whose CEO has come under fire for expressing his views on traditional marriage. The event was suggested by former Arkansas...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 01, 2012 4 Comments

As election day nears, Operation Counterweight continues. Today the spotlight is on the race between incumbent Democrat Mike McIntyre and Republican challenger David Rouzer for North Carolina's 7th Congressional District. McIntyre has been called one of the most vulnerable House Democrats of this election cycle. A...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2012 8 Comments

The new civility, that is. From Linda in Tennessee, sent with the subject line "the new civility ...

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