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ACORN: “the road to serfdom indeed”

As loyal readers will know, earlier this month I was in St. Louis documenting a civil rights initiative. There, I witnessed firsthand that which is ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
Intimidating to say the least.
Yesterday, Stanley Kurtz at National Review wrote an excellent article on the organization, and moreover, Obama’s relation to it. [...]

Eye of newt, and toe of…big government

My knowledge of Newt Gingrich is limited, for the most, to the following interview by Ali G:

Really, I have a faint memory of Newt and, like most people, associate the Contract with America with him but that’s about it. It’s a memory with positive undertones though. Like the Ali G video articulated, there was welfare [...]

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”—Chief Justice John Roberts

As recently mentioned, on May 3rd, 2008, I had a chance to sit down and talk with Tim Asher, Executive Director of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI).

Rando Thursday Whatever: a Missouri bong, probably unionized

Welcome to my inaugural “Rando Thursday Whatever”, a…well…random, outpouring of whatever stories and snippets—of a more apolitical and non-ideological stripe—I find worthy of mention. Yes, get excited for word vomit on a weekly basis!
Firstly, I’m not sure if I made it explicit in my last post, but I was in St. Louis, Missouri all last [...]

If You Give a Bum a Dollar (If You Give…)

This weekend I left Texas-home for Chicago-home to be apart of SamSphere, a new media forum put on by the rich fat cats that pay my salary. Lots of good people with lots of great tips, tools and strategies for bloggers. But more on that another day…
As I rode the el from work to the [...]


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