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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...

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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. ...

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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 ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 16 Comments

PPP called it pretty closely in Texas, and now is showing a toss-up among Eric Hovde, Tommy Thompson and Mark Neumann. Thompson, the former Governor, had been considered the clear favorite, but not anymore. The primary is August 14. Per reader Charles, Hovde is backed by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 55 Comments

Ted Cruz won a stunning victory tonight. Twitter was abuzz. But one Tweet with a photo seemed to capture the night. Cruz has Chick-Fil-A at victory party #txrunoff #txsen instagr.am/p/NxCunHAvz9/ — Jane Cummins (@janecummins) August 1, 2012 Tea-partier Cruz has Chick-Fil-A at victory party in the #txrunoff instagr.am/p/NxCunHAvz9/ (In case...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 75 Comments

% Reporting - 95.4 Ted Cruz - 56.6 David Dewhurst - 43.4 Texas Sec. of State Election Results page is here.  Twitter hashtag #TXRunoff.  Politico has a map of results by county.  AP Results website is here. Related post - Ted Cruz serves Chick-fil-A at victory party -------------------------------------- Sarah Palin issued...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 39 Comments

No one could have seen this coming. No one. I don't mean that Elizabeth Warren was stretching things a bit when she said that people on Wall Street have told her she'd save capitalism. No, the complete surprise is that Warren has fessed up and admits that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 34 Comments

Romney's foreign trip is the mainstream media's coming out party in favor of Obama this electoral season, an obsessive nit-picking the likes of which Obama has not seen since ever. John Hinderaker has it right: The Most Striking Thing About Mitt Romney’s Overseas Trip… …has been the press coverage....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 14 Comments

There never was going to be an actual shutdown, the issue was how much drama there would be on or about October 1. The drama held great risk -- for both parties.  If played wrong by Republicans, it could have given Obama a last minute boost...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 3 Comments

Darin at Reboot Congress has an interesting video of Richard Mourdock, running for Senate in Indiana against Democrat Joe Donnelly. Mourdock, who defeated Dick Lugar in the primary, is part of Operation Counterweight.  Mourdock still is playing catch up on fundraising, after he spent so much in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 77 Comments

CNN is hyping this story, but when you dig into it, there's no firm evidence, only piecing together assumptions and conjecture. Obama's family tree connection to first African American slave (emphasis mine): His family tree has been linked to Brad Pitt, Sarah Palin and both Presidents Bush but...

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