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Answer: “What College does he teach at?”

Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in culture, opinion/news
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Q: What was the first thought in my mind after coming home from a couple of hours of errands and seeing the following tweet from Michelle Malkin concerning James Jay Lee.

Not knowing who he is what would be your first thought?

Again that was before I knew anything about what was going on just seeing the tweet. I think that is the strongest critique of liberal academia today that I can think of.

Honestly if you knew nothing about that man other than the information from that tweet wouldn’t your first thought be NGO or Tenured Professor?

Guy Carbone (R) AG sticker candidate speaks at the Twin City Tea Party

Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff, opinion/news, tea parties
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He was a last minute addition because we had extra time, it’s a good thing too because he had a lot to say

He is one of two Sticker candidates for AG on the republican side

He took questions from the crowd.

And seems to be a best defense is a good offense type of guy.

You don’t get much more Italian than this man, he could be a fellow in my parish.

“Alaska republicans don’t like Big Government… who ever dreamed of that?”

Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, tea parties
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Stacy at the Spectator talks about Miller’s victory and makes an important point:

Miller’s victory was a vindication for a lot of people who have grown tired of seeing the GOP act as accomplices to the remorseless expansion of federal power. The campaign succeeded in large measure because the Tea Party movement has turned long-simmering conservative discontent with big-government Republicanism into an organized national force. Ever since the 2008 TARP bailout of Wall Street — for which Murkowski voted — more and more GOP voters have joined the insurgency that helped fuel the Miller campaign in accomplishing a rare thing: The defeat of an incumbent senator in a Republican primary.

It should not be forgotten that many establishment republicans were talking “repair” rather than “repeal” obamacare. The establishment Republicans are a lot more interested in driving the chuck wagon the stopping the gravy train. It’s only the tea party that keeps them honest. Smitty has a metaphor for this here.

The Beltway Bell has written one of the most important posts you will ever read

Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Go over and read it here:

After the inauguration my office was all atwitter about the new BLACK president we had. Praising every inch of him as if he lost a digit of a finger it’d have been worshipped as a holy relic. I wanted to scream “HE’S A SOCIALIST! And what do you really KNOW about him anyway? He is NOT all that! Michelle is NOT pretty! He will RUIN us!” But I put on my iPod, and kept silent.

This post could be a description of conservatives in Massachusetts until the Scott Brown election, people knew that to speak out meant that you were not “one of us”. Republicans, conservatives etc were lesser beings.

One of the most liberating moments for myself was on Election day 2008. I had a McCain/Palin sign that I picked up at a NH rally and went down to the polling place, after voting I stood there. holding that sign. There were gaps of disbelief, there was at least one, “You’ve gotta be kidding”…

…but there were quite a few thumbs up and at least one person who joined me and took my place for a while so I could take a break.

The power of knowing that you were not alone, the knowledge that is was OK to oppose this president, the willingness to say it when everyone else said no can make all the difference. Things changed in a hurry in Massachusetts once that fear was gone.

There are costs but freedoms always cost something.

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