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The Sleeper in Alaska

The Wall Street Journal has a great overview of what is at stake today in Alaska.

Allies of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski are looking over their shoulders before Tuesday's GOP primary. Internal polls taken for her campaign show Fairbanks attorney Joe Miller closing the gap. A new RT Nielson poll also has Ms. Murkowski's lead down to 47% to 35%. If accurate, it shows Ms. Murkowski below the level of support where an incumbent can be considered safe.

Polling, however, in Alaska can be...

Charlatans and the Horse They Rode In On

I have been biting my tongue so hard for so long that I'm surprised I haven't developed gangrene, but the time has come to open my mouth, or at least put fingers to the keyboard.

I have for years been shouting into the wind about those I believe are conservative charlatans abusing the money of donors, burning bridges, and making it all the more difficult for solid conservative activists to gain the trust of large conservative donors.

As I told Ken Vogel a few weeks ago, "Every movement — left, ...

Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.

Has the GOP learned its lessons from 2006?

That's the big question many on the right are asking themselves. After all, on the Senate side the same leadership that led the GOP out of power will be the same leadership leading the GOP back into power if they take back the Senate.

In the House of Representatives, the members did a good job replacing their failed leadership. Hastert retired, DeLay quit, Blunt left leadership. Blunt's Deputy Whip, Eric Cantor, moved up to Whip. Kevin McCarthy a...

Morning Briefing for August 24, 2010

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1. Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.

2. Cameron's 'High Noon' Canceled At 11th Hour

3. DOOM declared in CT by… Journal Inquirer.

4. Pick out Russ Feingold's Union Bosses!

5. Admin. Estimated 23,000 Jobs Lost to Moratorium

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1. Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old
Has the GOP learned its lessons from 2006?

That's the big...

Crimes Against Liberty & Politics 101

You want to know why Barack Obama coming out for the Ground Zero mosque was such a bad idea? It has nothing whatsoever with whether Obama's position was or was not correct.

For the past two years polls have shown that people liked Barack Obama personally, but they hated his policies. There was a great disconnect. But over the past seven or eight months, the tide has been turning. More and more people are deciding they don't like Barack Obama personally.

This is, if you will recall, the...

Barack Obama's Attempted Character Assassination of Koch Industries

"Obama's coordinated character assassination campaign against anyone who disagrees with him strikes of Soviet style politics. . . . When Darryl Issa takes over … the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform … this will be one more thing he will need to investigate."

When the President of the United States, in prepared remarks, launches a broadside against any organization, it is no accident. In the case of Barack Obama and left, we have a new target for this White House — yet another...

Morning Briefing for August 23, 2010

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1. Barack Obama's Attempted Character Assassination of Koch Industries

2. Obama owning the economy… any time now.

3. By Faith: I Am Proud of Franklin Graham

4. Ms. Magazine Says It's Not The Economy, Stupid. It's Your Girly Bits

5. Actually it looks like the Democrats will be the ones destroying social security

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1. Barack...

Red State Uprising: How to Take Back America

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Place your order for a hardback copy here. You can't get a digital copy yet. The launch date will be mid-September at the RedState Gathering.

By Faith: I Am Proud of Franklin Graham

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed...

I'm on the radio for the next three hours

I'm filling in for Herman Cain now. From 7pm to 10pm ET, you can listen live on 95.5 FM in Atlanta or 750 AM (you can probably pick that up in about 30 states with it being 50,000 watts and all).

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