http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone forwarded me this via email and it was too good not to share. I'm not sure of the original source, but if anyone can identify it for me, I'm happy to credit it. UPDATE: Near as I can tell, the logo at the bottom appears to reference this site. UPDATE 2 ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/11/20/your-prescription-is-ready/ Over the last few days, speculation concerning Rudy Giuliani's plans for 2010 has run rampant.  I have seen stories variously claiming with certainty that Rudy will run for governor, that he won't run for governor, that he hasn't decided whether to run for governor, that he will run for Senate, ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/11/20/marist-rudy-leads-gillibrand-trails-cuomo/ Work has intruded on my blogging more than I'd like recently, so I haven't had the chance to revisit the issue of the mysterious explosion in twitter followers for California Senate candidates Carly Fiorina and Al Ramirez.  A couple days ago, in response to the piece I wrote on the ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/11/19/a-follow-up-on-the-fiorinaramirez-twitter-flap/ Let's keep this simple.  Word got out today via Politico that the RNC's health care package for their employees covers abortions. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, if you at any time have donated to the RNC since 1991 (when this policy apparently took place), some incremental portion of ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/11/12/someone-at-the-rnc-must-be-fired-over-this/ Right up front I want to say that unlike a lot of people, I don't want to see the NRSC burned to the ground wholesale. They perform an important function that couldn't  easily replaced by others at this moment in time. But they are receiving some bad advice and making ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/ One of the things you will be immediately impressed by if you cover the campaign of Chuck DeVore is how active and engaged his online outreach team is.  If you write a blog post about DeVore or even send out a tweet about him, you promptly get a response from ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/is-the-nrsc-generating-spam-twitter-followers-for-carly-fiorina/ The GOP is currently fighting a number of critical battles in the war to regain control of the Senate.  Two of those involve the battle to retain the Florida seat formerly held by the retired Mel Martinez, and the battle to unseat the increasingly unpopular Barbara Boxer.  Both races feature a Republican ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/28/the-nrscs-embarrassing-fig-leaf/ So apparently the President who has received the most laudatory and fawning press coverage of any President in the modern era has decided to go to war on one of the few media outlets that does not genuflect before daring to ask his administration non-deferential questions.  This week, Obama apparently ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/23/dear-president-obama-please-continue-the-war-on-foxnews/ Erick covered the Q-Poll showing that Charlie Crist's once-formidable lead over Marco Rubio had been more than cut in half.  Today, the bad news for the Crist Campaign continued as Rasmussen released a poll confirming that Rubio has shaved more than 20 points off Crist's lead. The poll also confirmed ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/22/second-poll-confirms-crists-lead-dissolving/ Via USA Today, TARP IG Neil Barofsky has some harsh words for the way the TARP funds have been handled: A Treasury Department watchdog is warning that a key $700 billion bailout program has damaged the government's credibility, won't earn taxpayers all their money back and has done little to change ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/21/remember-the-tarp-money-yeah-its-gone/ Just wanted to assure you that your Senior Senator is still up and around and perfectly capable of executing the duties you elected him to perform.  Behold! I have video proof: And now a message for the rest of America: remember when the Democrat speechwriter talking point was that we should ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/15/greetings-people-of-west-virginia/ Having failed to prevent Rush Limbaugh from becoming a successful and wealthy entertainer, the mainstream media has apparently decided that they will attempt the next best thing; attempt to keep Rush Limbaugh from spending his money in the way he desires.  In this case, Rush apparently desires to spend his ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/13/media-smears-rush-limbaugh-considers-wikiquote-to-be-a-reliable-source/ Via Jim Geraghty comes this reminder that Jon Corzine, who is trailing Republican Chris Christie in the hotly-contested NJ-Gov race, is no stranger to "Macaca moments."  Most recently, Corzine decided that it would class up the debate in the governor's race by cracking on Christie's weight.  Get it? Vote for me, the other ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/08/jon-corzines-macaca-moments/ Several news outlets have been making hay out of an apparent joint endorsement of Obamacare (sans public option) by Bob Dole and Tom Daschle: Bob Dole, the one-time Republican leader in the Senate, and Tom Daschle, the one-time Democratic leader, issued a joint statement today in which they said they supported ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/08/newsflash-paid-health-care-lobbyists-support-obamacare/ Political watchers have long been awaiting a decision from Mike Castle about whether he will run in 2010 for Joe Biden's Senate seat in Delaware (currently being occupied by placeholder Ted Kaufman).  Castle has been waffling lately, and sending some indications through his staff that if State AG Beau Biden ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/06/mike-castle-to-announce-run-for-de-sen/ Last week, staffers for Barbara Boxer released information indicating that expected CA GOP candidate for governor and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman had heartily endorsed Boxer in 2003: "Whitman contributed $4,000 to Boxer in the 2004 reelection campaign -- and endorsed Boxer as a part of Technology Leaders for Boxer,'' confirmed ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/05/whitman-showed-little-interest-in-politics-until-barbara-boxer-came-along/ UPDATE: Welcome, Hot Air commenters! Please feel free to go here for further exposition of this post. UPDATE 2: Welcome, Ace of Spades readers! I have included a further update here. I will keep this simple.  Here is the text of the suit, which is brought under the MD Wiretap Act. The ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/09/23/watch-me-get-the-acorn-lawsuit-dismissed-in-15-minutes-or-less/ I am not here to defend the subject of this AP piece, who by all accounts appears to be a sexually perverted serial adulterer.  I am here to note, however, that his party affiliation is in the title of the article, and is also the second word of the piece.  ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/09/09/ap-discovers-gop-republican-conservative-republican-member-of-the-gop-r-involved-in-scandal/ I have to take mild issue with some of the posts at this site that have criticized Senator Edward Kennedy on the day of his death.  Some conservatives I have talked to about this troubling phenomenon have suggested that there's simply nothing positive for them to say about Kennedy, but ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/08/26/in-memory-senator-edward-kennedy/ I have now observed two of the country’s largest media organizations turn to the wisdom of Peter Singer in order to illuminate for readers or viewers the true lineaments of “rationing” in health care. This strikes me as bordering on bizarre. Perhaps it is simply brazen. More likely it is ... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/08/24/singer-holdren-and-rationing/