What I tell you three times is true: get a camera. Get a camera. GET A CAMERA:
For those without video, the above (courtesy of Andrew Breitbart) shows an alternate view of Rep. Andre Carson and Rep. John Lewis’ infamous walk out of the Cannon Building, on the day that the two Congressmen claimed to have been taunted with racial slurs. As Andrew put it: Continue reading More video of the Carson/Lewis affair.
And they should have done this, too.
Gallup just published a poll on voter enthusiasm, broken down by age. The main point – younger voters are showing fairly typical enthusiasm levels towards the 2010 elections (i.e., low ones) – is interesting (and entertaining), but there’s another important bit that did not get particularly addressed. And it’s an even more entertaining point. Continue reading What Gallup *didn’t* do with their enthusiasm poll.
Don’t do drugs, kids.
Are You Experienced?
Seriously. We lost about twenty, thirty years’ worth of top-shelf material there.
He’s running against Maurice Hinchey; George actually outraised him last quarter. This is pretty significant: Democrats really, really, really don’t want to be in an environment where they have to fund normally untouchable Members of Congress like Hinchey.
George’s website is here.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
In the course of noting that former Murtha crony Mark Critz received 52% of his first-quarter contributions from “[d]efense contractors, local business officers and lobbyists that relied on earmarked federal contracts from Murtha” the Washington Post notes this interesting little detail:
Four former lobbyists of the PMA Group, a once-powerful lobbying shop, also chipped in to elect Critz. Murtha arranged for his spending panel to steer hundreds of millions of earmarked contracts to PMA clients. The firm shut its doors amid a criminal investigation scrutinizing more than $1 million dollars in campaign contributions it gave to Murtha and other subcommittee members. Critz’s money came as well from top officers of companies that were longtime beneficiaries of Murtha’s largess in doling out military contracts: Argon ST, Progeny Systems, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Advanced Acoustic Concepts and Mountaintop Technologies.
Ah, PMA. Did you know that they got $117 million in earmarks from the Democrats in the last ten years? Impressive, in its way.
“Please. I can always do science to it.”
– Guilded Age: an RPG webcomic which is almost certainly going to pass its probationary period with flying colors. Which means that I’m going to have to eliminate one already on my list…
The race card? Sure.
But, more importantly, Obama played the GOTV Card here. The political junkies on both sides are now nodding: everybody else, watch this video and it’ll be discussed in just a bit.
Said discussion after the fold:
Continue reading President Obama concedes loss of House in 2010.
Sorry that the title isn’t snappy, but it happens.
High Court Will Rule On Violent Video Game Ban
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to children.
The court will review a federal court’s decision to throw out California’s ban.
The court in question is the 9th, which has a long and in/glorious (depending on who you ask) history of having its rulings smacked down by the USSC. Preliminary assumption is that they’ll sustain it, given that there was a roughly similar case last week involving animal cruelty that got struck down – but it’s the Supreme Court. You never know what those wacky guys and gals over there are going to do.
Moe Lane
PS: My opinion is that I don’t need the legislature to help me decide whether or not I should let my kids have access to violent video games. And that I don’t need the courts to validate my decision, either; that door swings in both directions.
(H/T Hot Air and Instapundit) I hate to disagree with P.J. O’Rourke on anything, but I have to, here:
The secret to the Obama annoyance is snotty lecturing. His tone of voice sends us back to the worst place in college. We sit once more packed into the vast, dreary confines of a freshman survey course—“Rocks for Jocks,” “Nuts and Sluts,” “Darkness at Noon.” At the lectern is a twerp of a grad student—the prototypical A student—insecure, overbearing, full of himself and contempt for his students. All we want is an easy three credits to fulfill a curriculum requirement in science, social science, or fine arts. We’ve got a mimeographed copy of last year’s final with multiple choice answers already written on our wrists. The grad student could skip his classes, the way we intend to, but there the s.o.b. is, taking attendance. (How else to explain this year’s census?)
America has made the mistake of letting the A student run things. It was A students who briefly took over the business world during the period of derivatives, credit swaps, and collateralized debt obligations. We’re still reeling from the effects. This is why good businessmen have always adhered to the maxim: “A students work for B students.” Or, as a businessman friend of mine put it, “B students work for C students—A students teach.”
Gee, where did we see this before?
“He got elected education commissioner and spent the entire time running for attorney general. He got to be attorney general and spent the entire time running for governor. When he got to be governor, he spent the first two years running for vice president and the last two running for the United States Senate,” said Slade, the former state GOP chairman.
(Via Hot Air Headlines) It’ll come to me in a second, I’m sure.
Moe Lane
