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Dave Weigel to leave Reason

 
From Weigel’s personal blog:
I don’t know what precipitated his compliment, but if he’s pushing the Weigel brand, I appreciate it, because at the start of December I am leaving reason magazine, my journalistic home since April 2006. You could not concoct a better 30 months to be the political reporter for America’s flagship libertarian journal. […]

Posted in The Media, Libertarian Movement | 2 Comments »

The 1,000 word Iron Bowl picture

Nick Saban actually celebrating for 500 milliseconds.

BTW, thanks to a good friend, we’ve got tickets to the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta next weekend. Should be fun…
Photo credit: Dave Martin/AP

Posted in Just for Fun, It's a Southern Thang | 1 Comment »

No “change” for cigar smokers

Obama promised change.  Considering his nicotine habits and that he plans to open dialogue with the Castros, this cigar smoker had held out a bit of hope for being able to legally purchase Cuban cigars in the states.  Doesn’t look likely, according to this article:
Obama has said he will reverse the Bush administration’s policies that […]

Posted in Regulatory Burden, Economic Policy, Bad Democrats, Satire | 3 Comments »

HUGE (as in overweight) news from the Canadian Transportation Authority

No more Air Canada flights for me.  From Fox:
Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the country’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are “functionally disabled […]

Posted in Travel | 1 Comment »

Sock Puppet Wants His Bailout, Too

Posted in Wasteful Spending, Fiscal Responsibility, Taxes, Bad Democrats, Bad Republicans, Tech | No Comments »

My three latest articles

Over at United Liberty, I provide some thoughts regarding some foreshadowing coming from the new Obama administration: new gun control laws.  Here’s a sample:
First of all, Obama must be pretty out-of-touch with gun laws around the country — based on the wording of the gun questions, at least. In much of the country, we don’t […]

Posted in Bob Barr, Wasteful Spending, Fiscal Responsibility, Economic Policy, Bad Democrats, Bad Republicans, Libertarian Party, National Politics, Other places I blog, Libertarian Movement | 2 Comments »

Mike Huckabee’s Plan to Sink the GOP Ship

As I’ve been stating for some time, if the Republican Party doesn’t start making some changes before too long, the Libertarian Party or some new political entity will be the ones creating ballot access rules making it hard for people like Tax Hike Mike to get on the presidential ballot.
In May, Huckabee gave us this […]

Posted in Wasteful Spending, Bad Republicans, Libertarian Movement | 10 Comments »

My advice to the Republican Party

Here are a few clips:
There is a lot of talk (and blame) about what the Republican Party needs to do to rebuild itself.  As a campaign Internet consultant, I certainly agree with Patrick Ruffini that change won’t come from the top down and that the Internet is vital in developing real grassroots operations.  However, it […]

Posted in Wasteful Spending, Fiscal Responsibility, Taxes, Bad Republicans, Tech, National Politics | 3 Comments »

Barr campaign social networking chart

Several people who had stopped by Barr campaign headquarters had asked if I would make this chart available after the election.  Here it is:

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I’m back

Due to the hours I’d been spending as eCampaign Manager on Bob Barr’s presidential campaign, this blog has been neglected for some time.  However, the election is now over and I’m finally back home and should have the time to keep it up to date again.
In the meantime, Happy Veterans Day to each of you […]

Posted in Bob Barr, Housekeeping, It's a Southern Thang | 4 Comments »