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Obama by the Numbers
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Rick Perry Makes His Presidential Run Official
Saturday, August 13th, 2011As expected, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he was running for President today.
Here’s the most complete video I could find of the announcement:
I have a lot of fish to fry today (and all this week, in fact), but I plan to have more on Perry’s candidacy later. Stay tuned…
Updated: The full text of Perry’s announcement speech. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
London Calmer, But Other Parts of England Flare Up
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011The Telegraph’s live newsfeed reports that rioting has spread to “Birmingham, West Bromwich, Manchester, Wolverhampton and Salford.”
And here’s audio of two drunk female rioters describing the “good times” they had burning things and drinking stolen wine. “It’s the government’s fault!” “Yeah, conservatives.” It’s hard for me to tell if this is real, or a parody of mindless British underclass hooligans.
Now some videos from the riots. Cheerful looters hauling away goods:
Rioters attacked outnumbered police in Tottingham:
Croyden on fire:
Cars and shops on fire in Lewisham and Hackney:
More rioters looting, and the police response:
Very recent footage of looted shops tonight on Woolwich High Street:
Manchester:
Birmingham:
My Interview With Ted Cruz (And Related Thoughts)
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011Here’s the video edit of my interview with Ted Cruz (click for a larger version on YouTube):
(I think I should have sucked in my gut more.)
After the interview, Cruz said that he reads the blog (which I believe, as I’ve interacted with several members of his campaign who read the blog over the past few months). I said that I started covering the race so closely mainly because the MSM was doing such a poor job of it. He agreed, and said that people wouldn’t start paying attention until the last week. I think he’s right.
Honestly, I have no real issue or ideological concerns with Cruz. If elected, I think he would easily be the best senator Texas has had since Phil Gramm. I do have some small minor concerns with him as a candidate (see this post for some context on the below points). A lot of the things I quibble over is Cruz following standard “How to Campaign 101.” However, I think they may not work as well as in the past for this year, and this particular race.
Again, keep in mind this is coming from someone who’s observing Cruz more closely than 99.9% of primary voters ever will. I think Cruz is still far and away the candidate that most closely fits William F. Buckley’s definition of who people should vote for, namely “the most conservative viable candidate.”
Thanks again to Ted Cruz (and his campaign) for allowing me the opportunity to interview him.
I have a longer audio version of this interview, covering more topics, I hope to put up later this week
Tom Leppert And ACORN
Monday, May 9th, 2011Matt S. Dowling has a post up up claiming that not only was Tom Leppert playing footsie with the SEIU, but he also sought the endorsement of everyone’s favorite pimp assistance agency, ACORN.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t actually provided the links to the evidence. When I pressed him on the issue in comments, he said “You ask and you shall receive….on Wednesday.”
Well, I like things sooner rather than later, and I wonder if he was hinting at this video showing Leppert hobnobbing with ACORN. Here’s the embedded MySpace version of it (I know, in the age of YouTube that’s like asking you to listen to a Victrola, but that’s the format it’s in):
Tom Leppert Supports ACORN for Dallas Mayor
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The video, with a date of June 1, 2007, looks like it was put together an ACORN/Hispanic outreach video for Leppert’s mayoral campaign. (Don’t ask me why they put the sepia-tone wash over everything.) And here’s a screen capture of the pledge it shows Leppert signing:
Assuming the date is accurate, and there’s no funny stuff in the video editing, it does indeed show that Leppert sought ACORN’s endorsement, and pledged to support some of their initiatives.
How damaging will this be to Leppert’s campaign? I don’t know. So much RINO baggage has tumbled out of Leppert’s closet that I don’t know how much more damage another skeleton can inflict.
I do look forwarding to checking in with Dowling on Wednesday to see what he’s dug up…
Osama Bin Laden IS Norma Desmond!
Saturday, May 7th, 2011So the Pentagon has released captured video of Osama Bin Laden watching footage of himself on TV:
Setting aside why he would have had anyone filming him watching TV (maybe he was testing a new camera, or maybe he was looking forward to an “I’m So Meta” Hitler parody video), what this reminded me of most was Norma Desmond watching herself in Sunset Boulevard. That is to say, someone who was once a big international star the world had passed by and was now a has-been, watching faded footage of the glory days, delusional about still being important, unwilling to go outside and largely forgotten.
I’m not going to say that was a fitting end for him, as that was having U.S. soldiers forcibly evict large portions of gray matter from his skull. But it is a fitting prelude to a fitting end.
He was ready for his close-up.
Obama to Troops: Drop Dead
Friday, April 8th, 2011When I first read on Ace of Spades that Obama intended to let our soldiers go without paychecks during the shutdown, I was somewhat incredulous. After all, even Obama should be able to see how lousy the “optics” are with withholding paychecks from troops involved in no less than three wars kinetic military actions overseas. Surely not even Obama could be that stupid?
Evidently I was wrong. Obama would rather let our troops go without pay than stop taxpayer funding of abortions.
To dramatize the issue, I’ve actually created a small film about the topic. I’ve taken the details of who all will still be getting checks in a shutdown from this piece up on Reason (which was, in turn, taken from The New York Times, saving you the 15 seconds it would have taken you to defeat the paywall…) Keep in mind that I’m putting it up in advance of the actual shutdown, so the details may vary…
I did this quick and dirty, and I didn’t see any actually U.S. soldiers as part of any character sets…
This Week in Jihad for March 3, 2011
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011Another week, another Jihad roundup. I’m not sure I can keep up…
(Hat tips: JihadWatch, Instapundit, Michael Totten, Creeping Sharia.)
Footage From Egypt
Friday, January 28th, 2011A few relevant embeddable videos I’ve found:
Not terribly graphic, but it does show someone getting shot (and probably killed):
Footage from Moscow Bombing Aftermath
Monday, January 24th, 2011Not particularly graphic, but lots of dead bodies:
(Hat tip: NRO’s The Corner.)