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LinkSwarm for August 3, 2012

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

A random compilation of vaguely interesting news that you may have already read elsewhere. So it goes:

  • The definition of FAIL: trying to escape police in a Smart Car:

    (Hat tip: Dwight.)

  • Obama has secretly killed all the 1990s welfare reforms. Hope to do a longer piece on this when I have the time.
  • If I really, really wanted to make modern feminists look bad and out-of-touch, how could I do it? Well, I could create a fictional character that a New York City writer call Ann Romney a “traitor” for daring to raise children rather than getting a job. But suppose even that weren’t enough. Suppose that I really, really wanted to make people hate this character. How far would could I push it? How about I make her a narcassitic drug-addict! (The Frisky nails it as Linkbait.)
  • Speaking of loathsome liberals, how about this Internet Tough Guy of the Year berating a poor Chick-fil-A drive through attendant over gay marriage?

    That’s some industrial strength stupidity right there, Mr. Adam Smith: videotaping yourself being King of the Douchebags and then putting it up on YouTube yourself. What possible go wrong? Beside, you know, your company firing you for being King Douchebag.

  • Clint Eastwood makes Mitt Romney’s day.
  • Porn star Jenna Jameson endorses Mitt Romney, increasing the chances his campaign will have a happy ending.
  • Democratic special interest groups are laying out big bucks to try to defeat San Antonio incumbent congressman Francisco “Quico” Canseco.
  • Tennessee’s Democratic Party disavows its own Senate candidate for the “hate crimes” of being against abortion and gay marriage.
  • Colorado family unable to evict squatters from their home. (Hat tip: Dana Loesch.)
  • Texas Senate Race Update for May 11, 2012

    Friday, May 11th, 2012

    Certainly Sarah Palin endorsing Ted Cruz was the big senate race news of the week (compared to the tiny news of my own endorsement of Cruz), but there’s still a bunch of other Senate race tidbits:

  • Both Ron Paul and Rand Paul have endorsed Ted Cruz. Rand Paul, of course, has been in Cruz’s corner a while. Not as big as the Sarah Palin endorsement, but not chopped liver either.
  • In the wake of Richard Mourdock’s defeat of Dick Luger, The Weekly Standard wonders if Ted Cruz is next.
  • A look at The Club for Growth’s record of backing winners, and how they’re backing Ted Cruz.
  • Dewhurst skips another debate.
  • Dewhurst puts out a new ad featuring Mike Huckabee:

    TV Ad: Values from David Dewhurst on Vimeo.

  • Pro-Dewhurst SuperPAC put up another attack ad against Cruz:

  • Dewhurst announces the endorsement of Texas RNC member Bill Crocker. Might help a bit more than John Gordon.
  • I still don’t see how highlighting his father’s World War II service is supposed to convince me to vote for Dewhurst. (Cruz’s story of his father (who was at Sunday’s rally) at least dovetails nicely with his campaign themes.)
  • Actual headline from Tom Leppert’s website “Dykes Urges Support For Leppert For Senate”. Were they actually trying for a Fark link? (That’s Pastor David Dykes, by the way.)
  • Leppert’s pastor also goes to bat for him:

  • A look at last Friday’s Senate candidate forum. I didn’t liveblog it, but i did put up some random tweets.
  • Kate Alexander on the state of play in the race.
  • Any new information in the Texas Tribune round-up of the race? (scans it) Nope.
  • Even by the previous lame standards of Team Dewhurst leaks, this “internal poll leak” that shows Leppert about to overtake Cruz is lame.
  • Heh. Team Dewhurst has that “Ted Cruz on Chinese currency ad” appearing on the sidebar of National Review Online. You know, the magazine that just endorsed Cruz. I don’t think that ad will be winning Dewhurst any new supporters…
  • Big Jolly endorses Dewhurst. This is hardly a shock.
  • Glenn Addison endorses Ron Paul. As you can see further up this blog post, you can’t switch the subject and predicate in the preceding sentence…
  • Craig James gets profile in the Dallas Morning News. It’s a nice profile.
  • DMN talks about their Republican endorsement interviews. For the dozen or so conservatives their endorsement might actually sway.
  • James also put up an anti-Cruz radio spot:

  • Naturally, Democrats Sean Hubbard and Paul Sadler both back gay marriage.
  • As the anointed Democratic establishment candidate, it’s no surprise that Sadler picked up the endorsements of both The Dallas Morning News and The San Antonio Express News.
  • Addie D. Allen finally turned in a campaign finance report (some 15 days after deadline), and raised $9,889, of which $5,000 is a loan to herself.