Category: Politics

OK, I admit it: I expected worse of this Computerworld article on Google and Cuba.

Said Computerworld article argues that Google is not going to be able to wire up Cuba for the Internet. When I saw that, I started to huff and mutter Well, of course not it’s not going to work right. Cuba is a totalitarian Communist dictatorship.  I wonder what excuse the author will use to avoid writing that.  And then, sure enough: the author gave his ‘explanation’…

The problem is that Cuba is a totalitarian Communist dictatorship.

…Oh.  Well, don’t I look foolish, now. I’m sorry for assuming the worst.

 

My RedState post on SPREADSHEET MADNESS IN WEST VIRGINIA.

Found here. Short version: I used a spreadsheet to come up with a hard cap on how many statewide delegates Donald Trump could glean from West Virginia.  …There was math. I was assured that there would be no math…

Moe Lane

PS: This should be good for background. Let me be honest, here: the way West Virginia assigns delegates is kind of weird and messy. Everybody got caught out by it. Even Ted Cruz’s campaign didn’t manage to get it perfectly right.

Jack Lew decides to see if Andy Jackson really CAN come back from the dead.

Via @BigGator5 comes this exercise in applied necromantic science:

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton’s face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday.

Can Andrew Jackson return from the dead and strangle Jack Lew with his own entrails? I don’t know, Timmy! Let’s find out! Continue reading Jack Lew decides to see if Andy Jackson really CAN come back from the dead.

Long but fruitful day in the delegate allocation wars.

I’m tracking the results for a RedState post – Oklahoma stubbornly refuses to cough up its results – but the short version is that Team Cruz had a nicely successful day making sure that the delegates that like Ted Cruz are the ones who are going to the convention. Kansas, Georgia, South Carolina, and of course Wyoming. Note that all of the delegates involved in the first three states there are still bound to specific candidates; but they’re also going to be on various committees and whatnot, and that’s going to make a big difference when it comes time to establish the rules.

…I trust I don’t need to spell that last part out?

Quote of the Day, Why Does This Stuff On Delegates Need To Be Spelled Out? edition.

Doesn’t everybody know this already about the delegate process?

A senior Republican National Committee official fired back with a thinly veiled response, writing in a Friday memo to reporters that “each process is easy to understand for those willing to learn it.”

“It ultimately falls on the campaigns to be up to speed on these delegate rules,” wrote RNC communications director Sean Spicer. “Campaigns have to know when absentee ballots are due, how long early voting lasts in certain states, or the deadlines for voter registration; the delegate rules are no different.”

Apparently not. OK, OK, I admit: I have been breathing in this stuff since 2003, 2004. And there is still much in the way of delegate allocation arcana that I am not familiar with. But it’s not freaking HARD to understand. If it was hard to understand they would have thrown it all out and replaced it with something that the average politician could grasp. I’m just saying, that’s all.

Via @LPDonovan.

Moe Lane

My RedState post on OSU using a Word of Command on protesters.

Found here. Short version: OSU dropped the E-bomb on a bunch of college protesters. There’s a video: and you can almost see the tone shift in the room when the protesters realized that, yeah, they were running a risk of arrest and expulsion. You can’t really go to that well too often, but when it works, it works…

Ted Cruz now assured of winning Wyoming.

Looks like Ted Cruz is gonna effectively pick up another ten to fourteen delegates this weekend.

Fourteen delegates picked statewide (plus the usual three for party leaders). Ted Cruz grabbed the lion’s share of delegates last month, and he’ll be likely to pick up most if not all of the rest. Unsurprisingly, frankly. And every little bit helps.

Man, maybe *I* should be the next editor of The New Republic.

They’ve tried everything else at this point: why not give it to a conservative?  I mean, can I really run The New Republic into the ground any harder?  Heck, I’m less likely to run it into the ground, honestly, because I’d feel bad about doing that. That magazine’s been around for all our lives, after all. It seems a shame for it to die.