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A Connecticut Conservative In the House of Representatives

I never thought I'd see the day, but it is looking likely.

Sam Caligiuri has released one of his internal polls showing he is one point behind Chris Murphy. Now, the Democrats will say this is an internal poll and scoff. But if they erect a firewall around CT-5 to try to save Chris Murphy, we know this internal poll is accurate.

And frankly, it would not surprise me given how Murphy is behaving on the ground, i.e. running scared.

We just may see a Connecticut conservative go to Congress. Wow.

Understanding Carly Fiorina

We endorsed Chuck DeVore in the GOP California Senate primary over Carly Fiorina. We did so because of DeVore's proven record of staunch conservatism — which he continues fighting for now, having just helped kill a California open-carry ban — but also because we didn't really trust or know anything about Fiorina. Carly's conservative record was thin to nonexistent, and there were many troubling signs that she held liberal views. From her praise of Jesse Jackson, to her playing the race and...

The Right Technology

I have a confession to make: I think the Right is still bogged down on the technology front in a way the Left is not. I also think the reason is simple. If you look at the major players on the right, they have little interest in working with each other when they could be seeking competitive advantages against each other as well as major contracts with campaigns and businesses.

Certainly there are those on the left who compete and seek contracts, but there is, in my mind, a substantial...

The Concord Project: Every Man A Paul Revere

A group of RedState diarists have gotten together and collaborated on a new project I think you need to pay attention to.

The Concord Project is a get out the vote website for ordinary Americans — normal people called to action or modern day Paul Reveres if you will.

We preach a lot about getting out the vote and local activism here at RedState, but frankly, I don't have enough time myself, nor do a lot of others. Luckily for us, some of our enterprising readers are making it easy.

Go sign up...

The Victim in Chief Makes a Pitch for Greater Socialism

Barack Obama went to Milwaukee, WI yesterday to speak to one of the few friendly audiences he has left in America — Big Labor.

Our Victim-in-Chief, with no sense of history, declared that people talk about him like a dog. First, it is worth point out he named his dog after himself — Bo. Either the dog stinks or got Mr. Obama's initials. It could be people are talking about the dog. And, our Victim-in-Chief should consider himself lucky considering the smears against many of his...

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1. The Victim in Chief Makes a Pitch for Greater Socialism

2. Save the Light Bulb

3. Ovide Lamontagne Rising in New Hampshire

4. Congress Needs Reforms, but Committees Don't Need More Power

5. Robert Reich: Economic Illiterate

6. "[F:]ew observers believe the violence was due to racial hatred."

7. Democrats argue it is fine to ban book promotion

'Recovery Summer' Wasn't All It Was Cracked Up To Be

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Ovide Lamontagne Rising in New Hampshire

A lot of really good people have come out for Kelly Ayotte in the New Hamphire GOP Senate Primary. I have quietly pulled for Ovide Lamontagne, but supported those who cast their lots with Ayotte.

For a good while it looked like Ovide was getting no traction and were he not in the race, Kelly Ayotte would be my pick. The other guy in the race, whose name is not worth remembering, is on video saying he supported abortion rights because if he ever had a kid with a defect, he'd want the right...

Save the Light Bulb

Dear John Boehner, Ted Poe, and Members of the incoming 112th Congress,

If you do only one thing in your time in Washington, and frankly I hope you do only one thing given your propensity to expand government (other than eradicating Obamacare), it is this: SAVE THE LIGHT BULB.

People may not realize it, but one of the first acts of the Democratic Congress in 2007, was to ban the light bulb effective in 2014.

Seriously.

Now, you may say that this is an exaggeration, and it is a bit, but the...

I have a man-crush on Joe Miller

Thanks to Media Matters (thought I'd never write anything like that) for highlighting my clip from CNN last night about Joe Miller.

I so totally have a man-crush on this dude. He calls the Democrats 'socialists', says Barack Obama is 'bad for America', and wants to privatize social security.

Wish they'd actually kept it going to the point where I was also praising Jesse Helms.