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Archive for 2010
March 12, 2010
DIANA HSIEH: Colorado Screws Amazon and Its Colorado Affiliates. Much more on this here. And she’s started a Repeal The Amazon Tax website.
TREATING TAX DOLLARS like Monopoly money.
EVANGELICALS SCARED OF THE TEA PARTIES? “Too libertarian.” I have to say, I haven’t seen a lot of evidence of this. But hey, there’s a lot to fear from those spooky libertarians — they’re trying to take over the government . . . and then leave you alone!
UPDATE: Erick Erickson emails: “I call bullshit.” And reader Robert Crawford writes: “Admittedly, I’m no Evangelical, so it’s no surprise I’ve never heard of the groups involved, but the Politico story about Evangelicals being uncomfortable with the Tea Parties reeks of astroturf. The line about ‘the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics’ rings as more a Democrat talking point, in particular.” I suspect we’ll see a lot of efforts to divide the Tea Party movement. That’s because it’s working.
THOUGHTS ON testosterone.
TEA PARTY TRAINING: A REPORT FROM UTAH. David Kirkham writes:
Tonight we held practice delegate training for Utah County so new people would know what to expect when they went to their neighborhood caucus and how to get elected as a delegate for the Republican Convention. The room was packed with people wanting to learn how to become a delegate. We have lists of everyone who attended their caucus meeting last year so people can get them to come out and vote for fiscal minded candidates.
Most have never participated in politics. Voting Senator Bennett out sentiment was extremely high. We have held these practice training sessions all over the state in the individual counties. We are getting organized.
UPDATE: Reader John MacDonald writes: “Tea Parties have to out -organize the community organizers well in advance of November elections or they lose the ground game on Election day to SEIU, ACORN.They have to win above the fraud factor.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Meanwhile, from Ohio, Justin Binik Thomas sends:
> New Tea Party, nearly 150 people attend.
> Members of the Pierce Township(Ohio) Tea Party came together for
> their first meeting on March 11.> Brian Wills, guest speaker of the Cincinnati Tea Party and Scott
> Ross with End Ohio’s Estate Tax.> Members were challenged to take petition packets and collect 30
> signatures each in support of End Ohio’s Estate Tax,
> a ballot initiative to end the death tax.> Pierce Township Tea Party is the newest community group in the
> Cincinnati Tea Party
This is democracy in action.
YOU CAN ALWAYS SAY “I FORGOT.” “DOJ contends that the failure to disclose was not intentional. It says that ‘In preparing thousands of pages for submission, it was unfortunately and inadvertently missed.’ Some Senators will view this claim with skepticism.”
March 11, 2010
EUROPE: Strike Paralyzes Greece: Protests Turn Violent. If only taxpayers got as mad about being fleeced as government workers do about losing their gravy train. . . .
WHY DIDN’T DEMS GO WITH A SCOTT BROWN “SCANDAL” STORY? The first several Gawker comments are all highly unimpressed. If you can’t get Gawker readers excited about a scandal story, it probably doesn’t have legs . . . .
AT AMAZON, the Big DVD Sale.
MEGAN MCARDLE: “Green jobs have become the ginseng of progressive politics: a sort of broad-spectrum snake oil that cures whatever happens to ail you. They are the antidote to economic malaise, an underskilled labor force, the inherent unwillingness of the public to suffer any significant economic and personal dislocation in order to save the environment. They enhance nationalistic vigor. (If we don’t act now, the Chinese will steal all of our green jobs!) They stave off aging of stale political platforms. And I’m pretty sure they’re good for bunions, too.”
HEH: “Is it okay if I stand back and watch… or heckle with stuff like: Don’t you know 100 human beings are dying every day because of you?”
Related: “What’s Spanish for ‘Hey, Rubes!'”
IN NEVADA, A TEA PARTY FAKE? “The allegation? He was put in the race by agents of Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to siphon votes from the GOP.”
THE SECRET LIVES of particle accelerators.
AN ARMY OF JAWAS: ‘Net Posse Tracked ‘Jihad Jane’ for Three Years.
YOU KNOW, I USED TO PLAY SQUASH, and this is exactly how I remember it, too. What’s the big deal?
IS THIS GOOD FOR THE U.S., or more “Weak Horse” consequences? Japan embracing China?
THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE, TAX CREDITS, and religious schools.
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: A flying, solar-powered sailboat.
JOURNALISM: CNN “geek anthem” post is implausibly similar to scrappy blogger’s earlier article. Well, great minds think alike and all that — but, really, how many great minds are there at CNN?
PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Citizens Against Government Waste praises the new earmark moratorium:
“CCAGW supports this step on the journey toward the complete elimination of congressional earmarks,” said CCAGW President Tom Schatz. “Over the last three years, under intense pressure from taxpayers, member of Congress have been ratcheting down their earmarks and the earth has not stopped rotating on its axis. With each reduction, members confirm what CCAGW and other taxpayer groups have been saying all along: Historically, Congress has not had to earmark in order to do the taxpayers’ business and that Congress can, and should, live without earmarks.”
In fact, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week called for a one-year moratorium on all earmarks but has not made any specific proposal to implement her plan.
Fewer earmarks are better earmarks.
Related: House GOP Votes to Ban All Earmarks.
IMPORTANT NEWS: Corvettes don’t float.