http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:12:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Diggs Brown formally announced his candidacy for the Fourth Congressional District of Colorado at the Best Western Hotel in Loveland Colorado on Saturday, Nov. 16th. Many in the district have been waiting for Diggs to return from his tour in the Army and announce his candidacy. There was ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/11/17/diggs-brown-joins-co-4-race/ It’s Time for the November survey of Colorado's Political Temperature. Ben Degrow and El Presidente have already completed two of these surveys, and they've just released another one. Click here to take the November 2009 Colorado online political survey One thing I noticed about the previous surveys is the rest of ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/11/05/help-steer-the-local-political-discussion-in-colorado/ There is an alarming situation occurring in the Education Industry right now that is causing great concern. I am of course referring to the obscene salaries that are currently drawn by University Presidents across the country which has turned a record number of them into millionaires. Even as ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/11/04/obscene-executive-salaries/ Jon Stewart takes on the new GOP.com website. He's always been better when taking on both sides of the aisle as he has been doing recently, and this is a good one. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cYou've Got Failwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/29/gop-website-fail/ Congressman Darrell Issa (R, CA), ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee pushed for a vote to subpoena records on the Countrywide VIP loan program which benefited several Democrats in Washington. The response of the Democrats on the Committee was to run from their seats to avoid the vote. ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/21/like-rats-from-a-sinking-ship/ Update: Mount Virtus, People's Press Collective, and Rocky Mountain Right weigh in on this story. I was part of a conference call last night hosted by Laura Goode, spokeswoman for Ryan Frazier. Ben Degrow and T.L. James were also on the call. Goode immediately confirmed the rumors that Frazier ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/15/ryan-frazier-drops-senate-bid-will-challenge-ed-perlmutter-in-co-7/ From Jon Caldera at The Independence Institute Night Twister http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/14/thank-you-for-flying-government-air/ A Christina School District student in Newark, Delaware was apprehended today before he was able to turn his weapon on his fellow students. The quick-acting faculty of his school noticed right away when he pulled out his dangerous weapon in the school lunchroom. They immediately confiscated the weapon ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/12/weapon-wielding-student-thwarted-by-perceptive-faculty/ That is, if HR2647 passes. This bill originally passed the House without the Hate Crimes legislation included, but it was added as an amendment in the Senate. The text of the legislation gives the Attorney General, currently Eric H. Holder, Jr., the right to determine if a group ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/09/eric-holder-will-decide-if-you-belong-to-a-hate-group/ I don't really understand those credit card disclosure thingies either. Senator Tom Carper (D, DE) schools us on why we don't need to read the actual legislative language of the health care bill being proposed in the Senate. A few of my favorite quotes: Reading the legislative language is among the more confusing ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/10/02/my-job-vote-for-stuff-i-cannot-understand/ I actually thought they were getting smart enough not to get caught doing this. I got nuthin' http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/24/all-hail-barack-hussein-obama/ Yeah, they're important. No, I don't expect most people at RedState will care much about who's running for School Board in the Poudre School District in the larger Fort Collins area. It is, however, important to me because I have three kids in school here and a newborn ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/22/school-board-elections/ Colorado bloggers Ben Degrow of Mount Virtus and Michael Sandoval (a.k.a. El Presidente) of Slapstick Politics have completed their second survey to measure the Colorado's Political Temperature.  Here are some of the highlights: The biggest winner, making significant gains in both support and perceived strength since our July survey, is gubernatorial ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/21/colorados-political-temperature/ A pro-life student at Owosso High School in Owosso, Michigan was shot and killed this morning. Flint News reports that the shooting occurred around 7:30 a.m., after most students were off the buses and safely inside the building. The school is currently in lockdown, even though the shooting ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/11/breaking-pro-life-student-killed-near-school/ My daughter decided to skip President Obama's address to students in school today, as expected. She got up to leave just before the speech was to start, and her classmates asked her where she was going. She told them that she had no interest in hearing the speech, ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/09/student-response-to-obamas-education-speech/ Laura Stansbury is a new contributor at Night Twister. This article is posted here with permission. This coming Tuesday, President Barack Obama will stand before a televised audience, an audience not the American Voter. Not yet that is. On Tuesday, September 8th, the President will collectively address our ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/07/president-delivers-speech-to-nation%e2%80%99s-children-why-many-parents-are-disturbed/ Somehow, I don't think this is what people had in mind when Obama said he would be creating jobs. According to an article by the Associated Press reported at Yahoo News, the European Union is up in arms about a new proposed fee for tourists to the United States ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/07/visa-waiver-program-tariff/ The AARP has worked hard recently to deny it's non-endorsement endorsement of the Health Care Bill HR3200. Behind the scenes they have been working hard to convince their members that this bill is in their best interest, regardless of questions by members and a declining membership. In an ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/05/aarp-admits-government-programs-dont-eliminate-poverty-for-elderly/ Via Peoples Press Collective. Yup, that's what we Republicans are. Selfish. YAF/Hot Air TV correspondent Jason Mattera undercover at an ObamaCare rally outside Democrat Rep. Jim Moran’s town hall. The comment is early in the video, but the entire thing is well worth watching and quite enlightening. ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/09/01/selfish-people/ Derec at Live Free Colorado has the story. At an Obama care rally that passed through Denver on Aug. 28th at North High School, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D, CO-7) asked the audience, with their ocean of pre-printed Health Care Now signs, if they’d heard of the 14th Amendment. From the ... http://www.redstate.com/nighttwister/2009/08/30/our-current-health-care-system-is-unconstitutional/