Month: February 2015

Tweet of the Day, Bernie Sanders Should Still ‘Run’ edition.

But I’m not going to try to beat Dan’s snark, though.

I mean: it CAN be done, but you have to work at it.

David Brock resigns from a pro-Hillary PAC as only David Brock can.

Which is to say, in a fashion that would make a lesser man than me mutter “clinical paranoia:”

David Brock on Monday abruptly resigned from the board of the super PAC Priorities USA Action, revealing rifts that threaten the big-money juggernaut being built to support Hillary Clinton’s expected presidential campaign.

In a resignation letter obtained by POLITICO, Brock, a close Clinton ally, accused Priorities officials of planting “an orchestrated political hit job” against his own pro-Clinton groups, American Bridge and Media Matters.

Continue reading David Brock resigns from a pro-Hillary PAC as only David Brock can.

Maryland Democrats: Oh, man, Larry Hogan is gonna get reelected, huh?

Call this a buried lede:

Delegate David Fraser-Hidalgo, D-Montgomery, is sponsoring the Protect Our Health and Communities Bill that would delay hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Western Maryland for the next eight years in order to provide more time to investigate health and environmental ramifications.

Eight years. How droll.

Moe Lane

PS: I dunno if the legislature can override Hogan’s inevitable veto… :click click click: …Maybe?  Ask me again after we see how far this bill gets.

Corrupt Governor John Kitzhaber (D, Oregon) MUST be recalled.

And not a moment too soon, either.

Two leaders of Republican Dennis Richardson’s failed gubernatorial campaign last fall have filed a prospective petition with the state seeking to launch a recall of Gov. John Kitzhaber.

It’s the second recall effort filed this week, yet potentially the more viable. Richardson has a vast email database that could help achieve the 220,000 signatures necessary to get a recall on the ballot.

…Are you a legal voter of Oregon?  Then it behooves you to sign this petition, when it becomes available in July. John Kitzhaber is so self-evidently corrupt that even the Oregonian – a paper that endorsed Kitzhaber – is calling for his resignation. This is a known thing; few dispute it.  In fact, it should have been the Democrats who started the recall process.   Continue reading Corrupt Governor John Kitzhaber (D, Oregon) MUST be recalled.

…Dear Lord.

Without a working desktop computer, I might… I might… I might have to go to bed early. This is strangely terrifying, yet strangely alluring. I mean, what if I get eight hours sleep? I might wake up early, too!

Seriously, I’m kind of beat. Gonna pick a video and then hit the sack reasonably early for once.

Book of the Week: “The Curse of Chalion.”

I find it difficult to believe that I haven’t done Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Curse of Chalion; it’s a high fantasy (heavy Southern France / Spanish flavor) that is pretty much unique in its tone and style. There is not a dull word in it; I am probably very shortly going to go find it and go read it again, in fact.  You should follow my lead in this.

And so, adieu to The Man in the High Castle.

It’s time to stand up a bit more for our allies and clients, Barack Obama.

Operating from the Chromebook, so I only *believe* that Ted Cruz here is calling for us to arm the Ukranians and the Kurds:

…but if Ted Cruz didn’t, he really should have. This is getting ridiculous: and, the Democratic party’s fond memories to the contrary, abandoning South Vietnam to the forces of evil was not a good idea. Certainly it’s not something to emulate now…

Is *Hillary* Ready?

This is a very nice Townhall article by Conn Carroll on Barack Obama and how he was not the Left’s Ronald Reagan (unless you count the way that Barack Obama, like Reagan, has made the argument against big government – however inadvertently, in Obama’s case).  But I have a quibble. In short, I always have the same question in my head when I see lines like this:

Hillary Clinton will be a very formidable opponent.

…Why?

Enjoy your Sunday.

Moe Lane (crosspost)