Archive for November, 2007

On the Cover of the Rolling Stone

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Love her or hate her, Loretta Nall clearly provides more color to the Alabama political scene than all of our state politicians (John Rogers notwithstanding, maybe…) combined. I’ve certainly had a lot of fun tag-teaming with her on media campaigns — the most notable one being when we developed her FlashForCash campaign, and then […]

Posted in Tech, Bad Republicans, Supreme Court, Just for Fun, Sex and Politics, It's a Southern Thang, Ron Paul, Libertarian Movement | 9 Comments »

Best GOP Debate Snark Award

Friday, November 30th, 2007

From Loretta via Dan:
Bring all the troops home and send Mitt Romney’s hair over there to kick Middle Eastern ass! That shit looks like it could saw through titanium and diamonds!

Posted in Foreign Policy, Bad Republicans, Just for Fun | No Comments »

Changing My View on Torture

Friday, November 30th, 2007

I’ve been vocal about my adamant opposition to torture lately.  I’ve got mixed feelings on capital punishment.  Cops running around tasing people willy-nilly and shooting 92-year-old women in botched drug raids has had me a bit upset, as well.
In this one case, an exception is permitted.  Tase the bastard, waterboard him while shoving bamboo splinters […]

Posted in Just for Fun | 2 Comments »

Tax Cuts and the GOP Debate

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Is Dick Armey a teensy bit jealous that CNN took a question from Grover Norquist last night? From a FreedomWorks e-mail:
Nearly 1,300 FreedomWorks members voted on the question that I submitted to the CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Debate. Fifty-eight percent of you said fundamental tax reform was the most important economic policy […]

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Compassionate Conservatism for the Holidays

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The President of the United States would like your support in providing Christmas presents for little children.  You see, American children get their lead toys from China, but Iraqi children have to get their lead from the United States.  President Bush would prefer that more Iraqi children receive 5.56MM pieces of lead, so he’s asking […]

Posted in Foreign Policy, Bad Republicans, Satire | No Comments »

Congrats to Public Defenders

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A good friend of mine, who will be graduating from the Washington College of Law at American University in May, just accepted a job as a public defender. Another friend just published an article on how maligned public defenders are. I’m wondering if it was a coincidence.
Congratulations to Nick on the new job […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Libertarian Movement | 5 Comments »

New Alabama Proportional Representation Ad

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

From Independent Alabama:

Posted in Election Reform, Alabama Politics | No Comments »

Liveblogging the GOP YouTube Debate

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The Warm Up
Micheal Goodwin on latest Rudy scandal: Why were they hiding the money?
Ed Rollins: Huckster will be attacked because he’s now a front runner.
Lou Dobbs rants about immigration again. Sheinkoff thinks the issue will be ignored.
Rollins: Can’t talk about open borders without committing political suicide.
78% don’t think the GOP candidates will […]

Posted in Bad Republicans, Ron Paul, National Politics | 4 Comments »

Alabama Outrage of the Day

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford (emphasis added):
But others argued a 1 cent sales tax increase and doubling of business license fees would hurt poor residents and drive away business.
Olivia Thompson, a former city bus driver forced to leave her job because of a disability, said she lives on just $607 a month.
“They’re saying one penny’s […]

Posted in Fiscal Responsibility, Taxes, Alabama Politics | No Comments »

Fair Tax, Congressman Cramer and His Challenger

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

When Brian noted that Ray McKee is running against Bud Cramer for Congress in Alabama’s Fifth Congressional District, he quite reasonably asked people to justify their opposition to Cramer:
A couple of days ago WVNN morning show host Dale Jackson hit on a key question about Bud Cramer (D), north Alabama’s U.S. congressman. He pointed […]

Posted in Fiscal Responsibility, Economic Policy, Taxes, Bad Democrats, Ron Paul, Bad Republicans, Alabama Politics | 4 Comments »

More Alabama Tax Increase Proposals

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Because the case against Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was dropped, Dan says he’s moving to Huntsville, presumably so he won’t have to pay more in taxes for a domed stadium that the voters kill time and time again and even self-identified progressives don’t want.
Dan has made a wise decision in selecting Huntsville, as other locations […]

Posted in Wasteful Spending, Taxes, It's a Southern Thang, Alabama Politics | 4 Comments »

Housekeeping notes

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

BlogNetNews has a new website toy available. I’ve put it on the sidebar for a while to see how it works. According to them (cough, cough — I don’t write about state issues all that often), this site is the 5th most influential poliblog in Alabama. The superior blogs (listed below) are […]

Posted in Tech, Housekeeping, Libertarian Movement | 2 Comments »

Survey Says: Ron Paul Has Zero Supporters Aged Less than 45

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Something about this survey looks incredibly funny to me. It says that Ron Paul has 0.0% of Florida voters aged from 18 to 44, but does have support of people in the 45+ brackets. While I haven’t been in Florida since this campaign began, anecdotal information provides that Ron Paul is doing well […]

Posted in Bad Media, Ron Paul, National Politics | 9 Comments »

Questioning Authority

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

10 Zen Monkeys wants to start “a broad-based coalition of non-authoritarian groups and individuals who may currently be working in relative isolation on single issues, for political organizations and candidates, or in relatively isolated ideological cohort groups” in order to form a Question Authority organization.
They’d like to:
… be excessively blunt. We want all the nation’s […]

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Ron Paul Campaign: The Latest Neo-Nitwit Attack

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

 Source: Some stupid state senator from West Virginia
First, let me say this, and there are a few avid readers of this blog who I respect, but simply don’t support who they support. So, because of them, I have really held off writing anything negative about Texas Congressman Ron Paul because, well, he and his candidacy […]

Posted in Foreign Policy, Bad Republicans, Ron Paul, National Politics | 3 Comments »

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