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And I thought ACORN was intimidating….
You don’t have to look any further than its name - BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) - to get a sense of what’s tactically off-the-table for this communist organization.
In a larger story about The Far Left’s War on Direct Democracy, here’s John Fund:
[M]ore power to ordinary people remains unpopular in [...]

I love this organization.
A couple weeks ago I excerpted from a phenomenal op-ed they wrote.
Today I just want to highlight an event-err…party?-OSPRI is having entitled “Alcohol, Firearms & Tobacco”.
Brilliant and highly offensive tag line: “It should be a convenient store not a government agency”.
Awesome.

Ranked Choice Voting. Also known as Instant Runoff Voting. Seriously, this is one of the best ideas to come from the political world. Ever! How have I not heard of it until now?
No more bullshit squabbling about spoilers, about who Nadered who, about how voting third party is going to take away votes from the [...]

Last week’s Weekly Standard was pretty sweet.
The cover article - The Colorado Model: The Democrats’ plan for turning red states blue - cites my boss Eric O’Keefe in terms of successful political strategy.
Eric O’Keefe, chairman of the conservative Sam Adams Alliance in Chicago, says there are seven “capacities” that are required to drive [...]

Earlier this month it was Flint, Michigan. Last week? Riviera Beach, Florida. Two days ago, the latest nanny-state trend - outlawing saggy pants - made its way to Lynwood, Illinois, a suburb about 30 miles south of Chicago.
This, of course, only reinforces Chicago’s reputation as American’s Most Paternalistic City.
Coming to a city near you…

If mere [...]

I’m in Austin, Texas, at AFP’s RightOnline. Consider it the right’s answer to the Yearly Kos.
Anyways, I - along with a whole bunch of other attendees - have been collectively twittering the conference minute by minute here. Check it out.

From the Americans for Tax Reform website:

On July 16, Americans mark the national Cost of Government Day (COGD), the date on the calendar year when the average American finishes paying off his or her share of federal, state and local spending, and the [...]

I’m not sure how much of a friend he was to liberty but, guest hosting on the Rush Limbaugh Show 12/31/97, Snow stated: “I’m a libertarian on most points.” Source here.
Agree? Disagree? Tell me what you think…

Consider her Michael Moore 2.0. Yes, Naomi Klein is the new face of anti-free market intellectual dishonesty.
Johan Norberg, Cato fellow and author of the paper The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics, briefly debunks Klein’s major thesis.

For more evidence of Klein’s exaggerations, distortions and misrepresentations, check out the whole paper (linked above).