Todd Akin’s Dumb Comment vs. Obama’s Support of Infanticide

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 20th at 04:46 AM  | 

Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri, made an inarticulate and rather dumb statement about rape and abortion on television in Missouri. He subsequently clarified his remarks. Congressman Akin, like many devout Christians, does not believe in a rape exception for abortion. Naturally, the very same left that gave Joe Biden a pass on his “put y’all back in chains” comment is horrid by | Read More »

A tale of two campaigns: contrasting Romney-Ryan’s access with Obama-Biden’s.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

So, to review the bidding: when Romney picked Ryan, Establishment Democrats (and their liberal lackeys) cackled in response that the GOP would now have to hide from the entire state of Florida, thanks to Mediscare. No way that they were going to go all-in, there. Yeah, about that?

The Strategic Failure of the Obama campaign

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  August 17th at 02:08 PM  | 

We are one week into Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan. A number of polls are coming out telling a variety of stories about what it means. But one thing is clear: Barack Obama’s campaign has had several significant strategic failures this summer. And they failed to define Paul Ryan out of the gate with their Mediscare tactics. And they failed to define Mitt Romney | Read More »

Barack Obama Is A Liar

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 16th at 04:46 AM  | 

Look at the first bullet point here. He claims Paul Ryan wants to ban common forms of birth control. That is a lie. It is also a lie to claim that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to “drag us back to the 1950s.” Does the President really believe that crap? Apparently so. It’s on his website. And yes, if you are going to make | Read More »

Tech at Night: Harry Reid is an ineffective legislative leader

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 16th at 12:00 AM  | 

I guess legislatively it’ll be slow going the rest of this year, thanks to the elections. So Tech at Night just may be shorter for a while to come. That’s good for my sleep schedule, I believe. Though the aftermath continues of Harry Reid’s failure to ram through the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act, as John McCain, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and other Republicans criticized Harry Reid for | Read More »

Obama’s Amnesty Voter Registration Drive Begins Today

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 15th at 03:30 PM  | 

This week we will witness thousands of illegal aliens lining the sidewalks of embassies and consulates in order to obtain documentation that will allow them to remain in the country indefinitely, and eventually, sign up to vote for Democrats.  This is all being done at the behest of our top law enforcement officers in contravention to our laws, yet there is nothing ‘we the people’ | Read More »

Mitt Romney’s right hook at Chillicothe.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 14th at 11:33 PM  | 

If you missed it: Mitt Romney put together and delivered a very good speech tonight in Chillicothe, Ohio.  I’ll be putting up the video as soon as I find it (and the prepared remarks after the fold).  But the gist of it was that the Romney-Ryan campaign has no intention of allowing Obama-Biden to define unchallenged Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, the Republican party, conservatism in | Read More »

Romney hits Obama for cutting $716 billion from Medicare to pay for ObamaCare

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  August 14th at 04:45 PM  | 

The Romney campaign has released a powerful new television ad contrasting the Romney/ Ryan plan, which strengthens Medicare and protects the commitments made to current seniors, against Obama’s $716 billion cuts from Medicare. Watch the new ad, called “Paid In.”:

More on the Winning Argument

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 13th at 08:00 AM  | 

In USA Today, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds quotes Iowahawk: “Paul Ryan represents Obama’s most horrifying nightmare: Math.” Let me break the math down for you. If Barack Obama gets his way and raises taxes on everyone making $250,000.00 a year or more, the amount of money he brings in will not close his own budget deficit. Nevermind the national debt — he won’t close this year’s | Read More »

The Argument

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 13th at 04:47 AM  | 

Saturday on Twitter, my buddy Tom Crowe summed up what the two Presidential campaigns are all about: So #2012election comes down to GOP: “We trust you.” vs. Dems: “Trust us.” — Tom Crowe (@TomCrowe) August 11, 2012 This should not be a hard sell.

Not Enough

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 11th at 11:24 AM  | 

Just under a month ago, I wrote Of all the people to not be beating up Mitt Romney for his present not quite stellar campaign, I find myself in that position. I’m genuinely not that worried. I am still not worried, but I am getting concerned. This election is trending away from Romney as the economy deteriorates and more Americans believe the economy is getting | Read More »

Tech at Night: Google punished for hacking Safari Do Not Track, Microsoft gives Do Not Track a big boost

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 10th at 10:00 PM  | 

So the FTC is on a tear. Google is officially smacked for $22.5 million for hacking though Safari’s privacy protections to sell Safari users’ information to advertisers. Then Facebook got whacked for lying about what privacy protections it was giving users. Some are saying this is bad, as it’s expanding FTC power, but this is really a bad time to make that point. Google brought | Read More »

Obama Campaign Fishing for Dirt on Potential Vice Presidential Picks

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 10th at 11:38 AM  | 

As the time draws near for Mitt Romney to announce his running mate [Note: Read this important essay from Dan McLaughlin on that pick], the Obama campaign is sending out emails requesting any and all dirt on prospective VP picks, which can be submitted via subject-specific contact pages on its website. Those receiving the send-us-your-dirt treatment include Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, New Jersey Governor Chris | Read More »

Tech at Night: Obama FCC still doesn’t get it on spectrum, Don Young admits USF is corrupt [Fixed]

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 9th at 01:30 AM  | 

With the Cybersecurity Act on hold for now, it seems like a slow news week, so a quick one tonight. We’re in a spectrum crunch, and as long as the Obama administration is restricting spectrum allocation, including the critical secondary spectrum market that firms like Verizon and AT&T are trying to operate in, it’s not going to get better. The Obama FCC claims to get | Read More »

Collusion between Obama for America and Priorities USA on ‘their’ lying Soptic ads.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 8th at 07:00 PM  | 

The Story So Far: two days ago, the Obama administration – using the fig-leaf/cutout of Super PAC Priorities USA – accused Mitt Romney of being a murderer because a company that Romney used to own closed down a steel mill (several years after Romney left that company) and that meant that the wife of the husband who lost his job at that steel mill (one | Read More »