http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:26:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last time we checked in on Nate Silver, the top-flight baseball analyst turned bottom-feeding partisan shill (appropriate for a guy who started out in politics as a Daily Kos diarist) was launching a crusade against Strategic Vision so lacking in integrity or even basic mathematical sense that it left ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/13/nate-silver-pretends-to-forget-how-polling-works/ The Democrat coalition may be fracturing more visibly along abortion lines in the Obamacare debate, but that's not the only popcorn-friendly battle going on right now. 'Minority' groups are going after Net Neutrality now, and nobody is sparing the 'race card.' The leaders of the National Black Caucus of State ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/12/minority-groups-puncture-the-net-neutrality-balloon/ Listen to Carly Fiorina yourself, if you don't believe my repeated posts describing how wrong a candidate she is for this party at this moment of conservative mobilization. Is this the time to nominate a candidate who wants to sign a globowarmo treaty with China? Who wants to ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/12/judge-carly-fiorina-for-yourself/ They haven't passed the Net Neutrality regulations, phase one of the push for Single Payer Internet, but the FCC is already plotting phase two: a National Broadband Plan. Call it what you will: a socialist Five Year Plan, fascist-inspired industrial policy, what have you. It's a frightening step ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/10/watching-the-fcc/ You may remember when Carly Fiorina insinuated that anyone who opposes extensive government regulation of the Internet, is covering for child rapists. I was confident that DeVore would get back to me with a record contradicting that slimy attack, but also offered the Fiorina people an opportunity to get ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/10/lies-and-campaign-statements/ Carly Fiorina truly is panicked. The NRSC has been spooked by the Scozzafava/Hoffman/Owens race, and is more or less going to leave Fiorina out to dry. And while she got the support of conservative favorite Tom Coburn to match Chuck DeVore's Jim DeMint, the rest of her supporters ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/06/carly-fiorina-supporting-a-free-internet-means-supporting-child-rape/ The last time a Democrat was in the White House we got the Communications Decency Act (since thrown out by the Supreme Court) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (still a weight on the neck of American innovators). This time we're not only seeing "Net Neutrality" being used as ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/04/the-democrats-continuing-war-on-the-internet/ We won the big statewide races yesterday, and now it's back to work trying to win some more. The California Senate primary may not be until June, but when we're faced with an entrenched incumbent like Barbara Boxer, we need all the lead time we can get. Up until now, ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/04/demint-endorses-devore-fiorina-panics/ What do you get when you combine an ISP active in Internet filtering with a left-wing group that is essentially the online ACLU? You get the broad, bipartisan opposition to the FCC's plans for Internet regulation that are being sold as Net Neutrality. It was remarkable enough when Governors left ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/02/america-unites-against-obama-on-net-neutrality/ It's the little things that illustrate the big problems with the common evidence that the Earth is heating up rapidly. Take this picture I took yesterday afternoon, as I hiked on out to Wal-Mart to check on after-Halloween cheap candy*: I always get a kick out of seeing these little ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/11/02/squirrels-cities-and-climate/ ...plotting to pass Net Neutrality. I've written in this space for a while about who the real Astroturfers are in the Net Neutrality fight. Google – and its puppets like Free Press – are promoting this idea that it's a struggle between big telecommunications firms, and the little guys. Except ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/10/29/google-and-obama-sitting-in-a-tree/ As most of us watch the special election in New York, we still have a Senate primary in California to deal with. It's the same old story, though. There are two kinds of Republicans. One kind celebrates big government and progressive control over America. Carly Fiorina, like Dede ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/10/27/there-are-two-kinds-of-republicans/ As we have covered before in this space, the far left does anything possible to avoid having a straight-up, honest debate over ideas. Much like the old Communists and Fascists on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin, they'd rather use muscle than ideas to get a victory. As we're all aware, ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/10/21/ignore-the-socialists-behind-the-curtain/ The time is coming that the left is going to begin its drive for Single Payer Internet, and so the time has come for us to fight back. Finland is gradually nationalizing the Internet and declaring use of other people's Internet hardware a "right," and the left is cheering. ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/10/19/act-now-against-net-neutrality/ I'm a conservative, so I have no problem with anyone using their rights to enter the public discourse, and I'm not allergic to corporations. So I when I call the latest from Google "astroturf", I'm saying it purely to illustrate the hypocrisy of the left, because by their standard ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/10/09/incestuous-coincidences-surround-net-neutrality/ The left is at it again. They know that in a straight-up battle of ideas, their socialist perversion of Net Neutrality could never win out. Nobody but the most blindly partisan supporters of Barack Obama wants a government takeover of the Internet, because everybody knows that when government ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/10/03/the-real-net-neutrality-astroturfers/ Does Carly Fiorina care what Republicans think at all? The very day after rejecting the option of taking day trips or making video addresses to Republicans gathered for the state party convention in Indian Wells, Carly Fiorina has begun making day trips to raise money. While this is ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/09/30/fiorina-snubs-republicans-begins-active-fundraising/ Nate Silver once was a respected mathematical analyst. His baseball-related work, such as that at Baseball Prospectus and on PECOTA, showed that he has the ability to make solid, reasoned arguments using mathematical tools. But now, he's flushed his own reputation into the toilet with his campaign against Strategic Vision. ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/09/28/nate-silver-becomes-the-joe-morgan-of-politics/ I am in danger of becoming a broken record on the issue of Net Neutrality in this space, but as aggressively as the Democrats are pushing the issue, it is a danger we all will have to live with. Once again, I will summarize the issue with a minimum ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/09/25/on-julius-genachowski-and-net-neutrality/ Recently I and others have questioned Carly Fiorina's commitment to the race to defeat Barbara Boxer in 2010. She won't fund her own race with her deep pockets, which was supposed to be a key reason to nominate her. She also won't show up to the California Republican ... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/09/25/this-is-not-carly-fiorinas-year/