NY State Senate: Defection A Serious Miscalculation by Hiram Monserrate

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  June 8th at 08:07 PM  | 

Moe wrote about Hiram Monserrate back when the story broke about his Christmas-time attack on his girlfriend with a broken beer bottle for having another man’s business card in her purse. The woman needed 20 stitches around her eye. In reaction, the brand new incoming NY Democratic Senate Majority closed ranks around their man and one of their number, State Senator Eric Adams, went so | Read More »

Where The Votes Are, And Why We’re Not Winning Them.

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  January 27th at 12:31 PM  | 

NOTE: This started as a response to Fred Maidment’s comment here and ended up becoming this … so if this seems disjointed, it’s all Fred’s fault – . Where the votes are is in the “middle” – that undefined muddled plurality of the electorate that is at best marginally informed, that only really pays attention to the “issues” in the last few weeks (when its | Read More »

Why is Sarah Palin afraid of the Press? Hmm? [UPDATE: More Videos]

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  September 9th at 11:19 AM  | 

Okay … so the new talking point making the rounds on the Left is that Sarah Palin is afraid of her lack of experience, knowledge, intelligence, accomplishment and basic humanity being exposed by those paragons and arbiters of honesty, courage, strength, fairness and objectivity. As evidence, they are pointing to Palin’s absence from the Sunday morning talk shows. What is she (and John McCain) afraid | Read More »