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Morning Briefing for August 19, 2010

RedState Morning Briefing

For August 19, 2010

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1. Last Chance

2. Flaming Hypocrisy and the Convenient Constitutionalists of the Fringe Political Elite

3. The Growing Detachment of the Political Class

4. Orange Charlie's Bad Day.

5. Howard Dean… wants the mosque moved.

6. Barney Frank calls Barack Obama dumb.

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1. Last Chance

We have a very special RedState Gathering planned...

The Growing Detachment of the Political Class

I hate to keep harping on this topic, but it is so very relevant to the present political discussion. The political class and its sycophants — and I want to be clear here that this is bipartisan and, to a degree, across ideological lines — has grown hopelessly out of touch with the rest of America. The political class that supports things like the Ground Zero mosque has become fringe.

They and their ideas are bounced back and forth and embraced as gospel truth with no bearing on reality....

It is that time

I have an announcement to make. Set your clocks for 7pm ET this Friday.

In my ongoing quest to become competent enough to maybe one day sit behind a certain golden microphone, I've kept guest hosting here in Macon.

On Friday, however, I'll be headed up to Atlanta to sit in for Herman Cain on his radio show. WSB, the station, which also happens to presently be the most listened to talk radio station in the country, is now not just giving me 50,000 watts to abuse, but an FM station as well.

That...

It is time to get off the fence and support Pamela Gorman

There are so many candidates running in AZ-03 to replace John Shadegg that fundraising is tough unless your last name is Quayle. Pamela Gorman has up what might amount to a closing argument after a great grassroots campaign.

This reflects exactly why I'm supporting Pamela Gorman. Unlike every single other candidate in that race, Pamela Gorman has bled for cause. She stood up to Democrats. She stood up to Republicans. The fights cost her friends and power, but she held the course.

Pamela...

The Elite Become Fringe. We Will Remember Come November

"The same people who have dedicated the entire year to proclaiming the tea party movement 'fringe' suddenly find themselves fringe."

I've written about this before. Let me pretty much repeat myself because it is vitally relevant here.

I cannot tell you the number of reporters at major networks and newspapers who will, in private moments, admit there is a real bias in the media. That bias largely comes up from the elite power brokers, trend setters, news reporters, and politicos who live in t...

Morning Briefing for August 18, 2010

RedState Morning Briefing

For August 18, 2010

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1. Nancy Pelosi Joins the Fringe Mosquerade

2. The Elite Become Fringe. We Will Remember Come November

3. Severability and Obamacare

4. Does Paul Krugman Understand Finance?

5. Solutions for America

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1. Nancy Pelosi Joins the Fringe
Ladies and gentlemen, we have come through the looking glass.

Tonight on KCBS radio in...

Nancy Pelosi Joins the Fringe Mosquerade

Ladies and gentlemen, we have come through the looking glass.

Tonight on KCBS radio in San Francisco, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi began calls for investigations into opponents of the Ground Zero mosque.

Aligning herself with the fringe — a group of people no larger than those who think 9/11 was an inside job and those who think Barack Obama is a foreign born Manchurian candidate — Pelosi said, "There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I ...

Sensibilities and the Ground Zero Mosque

Here's me on John King USA last night talking about this issue.

The Democrats' Disaster: More Americans Question Barack Obama's Birth Story Than Support the Ground Zero Mosque

"Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a man whose first reaction to the Time Square bombing plot was to blame people upset about Obamacare passing, has ceded being the face of that fringe to Barack Obama."

There is no great split in the United States of America on the issue of the Ground Zero Mosque. Sixty-eight percent of Americans oppose it.

In fact, using the same metric — CNN Opinion Research polling of 1,000 Americans — more American have doubts about Barack Obama's birth story than support the...

Morning Briefing for August 17, 2010

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For August 17, 2010

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1. The Democrats' Disaster: More Americans Question Barack Obama's Birth Story Than Support the Ground Zero Mosque

2. Reserve Your Room for the RedState Gathering

3. Reid's new Angle on 9/11 mosque.

4. Obamacare worth 17.5K dead women a year?

5. Democrats Obfuscate

6. Senate Republicans Getting Played on the Russian-friendly Strategic Arms Treaty