James Kotecki: College Republicans: Huge Nerds? (VIDEO)

Giffords doctors balancing role as rock stars
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — One is an irrepressible South Korea native who has treated some of the most horrific wartime injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. The other is a reserved neurosurgeon who happens to be the brother-in-law of television show host Dr. Oz. Together, they have stood in their white lab coats before a gaggle of TV cameras every morning to update the nation about their highest-profile patient to date: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded after being shot point-blan...

No More Mister Nice Blog
YOU WANT Racist, JOSH? TRY THIS Herman Cain, the teabagging, Joe the Plumber-endorsed African-American ex-CEO of Godfather's Pizza who's the first Republican into the presidential race, is the subject of a brief Atlantic profile by Joshua Green. Separately, Green has

Nigeria starts voter registration for April poll
LAGOS, Nigeria - An effort to register 70 million voters across Nigeria wobbled to a start Saturday, as volunteers spread out across Africa's most populous nation ahead of an April Presidential Election. The two-week effort will see volunteers in some 120,000 locations in the nation's arid north, fertile central valleys and oil-rich southern delta use Laptop computers to register eligible voters. But on Saturday, the first day, problems began almost immediately. At a school on Lagos' Ikoyi...

Media Blackout: ACORN Bigshot Sentenced In Voter Fraud Conspiracy
Did you know that a senior ACORN executive was recently convicted and sentenced in Las Vegas for Conspiracy to commit voter Fraud? Well, that’s because media outlets ignored it because they were far more interested in doing everything in their power to slime Sarah Palin. Palin’s purely speculative connection to the Arizona shooter is apparently far more important than the sanctity of the Ballot Box. As I wrote in The Daily Caller, the ACORN operative, Amy Adele Busefink, got a tw...

Ann Wagner for RNC Chair
The Candidates in Friday's RNC Election face a difficult task in restoring the organization’s finances and credibility thanks to Michael Steele’s disastrous tenure here in DC. The person best suited to take on this responsibility is Ann Wagner. Wagner is a former RNC Co-Chair and former Missouri GOP Chairman. She is a candidate broadly seen as capable of taking the RNC in hand on day one, and getting it back on track.  Her “Transition Plan” released earlier in t...

Shifting the Focus to Improving Voter Registration Access, Not Inhibiting It
In a Democracy that can only boast that 71 percent of its citizens are registered and able to exercise their civic duty in any given election, access to the franchise is crucial. For decades, millions of citizens have relied on either Voter Registration drives or government agencies to help them get on the voter rolls. Today, however, private Voter Registration drives are under attack, while some states are ignoring their responsibilities to reach unregistered citizens. If community-based drives...

SSP Daily Digest: 1/13
• MA-Sen: No surprises are revealed in the Boston Globe's post-Vicki-Kennedy-announcement state-of-the-Senate-field story (Mike Capuano, Stephen Lynch, Alan Khazei, and Robert Pozen are the Dems who get the ink). As far as Capuano goes, the story confirms that he's taking a "hard look" at the race and will make a decision by late spring. • MI-Sen: Here's some actual confirmation of what everyone assumed a few days ago, that ex-AG Mike Cox's joining a Detroit Law Firm meant he wouldn't be ...

Granite State of Mind
This article is kind of alarming in how crazy the folks running New Hampshire are. My personal favorite is that they are going to redefine what it means to be a citizen to keep liberals from voting. And I’m not reading between the lines, they said it straight up: Turning to the issue of voter Fraud prevention, O’Brien said his party will “tighten up the definition of a New Hampshire resident.” He said that Plymouth, a College Town, experiences 900 same-day voter registr...

Andrew Bleeker, Founder of Bully Pulpit Interactive, Joins Hill & Knowlton
Julie Atherton is taking on a new role as a global senior advisor to Jack Martin on integrated communications. Most recently, Andrew was the principal and founder of Bully Pulpit Interactive where he provided online marketing strategy for clients in both the public and Private Sectors.  Clients include the USO, World Food Programme, LIVESTRONG, the Democratic National Committee, and the Alliance for Climate Protection. Prior to founding Bully Pulpit, Andrew helped build Change.gov and serv...

Nigeria starts voter registration for April poll
An effort to register 70 million voters across Nigeria wobbled to a start Saturday, as volunteers spread out across Africa's most populous nation ahead of an April Presidential Election. The two-week effort will see volunteers in some 120,000 locations in the nation's arid north, fertile central valleys and oil-rich southern delta use Laptop computers to register eligible voters. But on Saturday, the first day, problems began almost immediately. At a school on Lagos' Ikoyi Island, officials argu...

Local rabbi still moved by his march with King in 65
In the throngs of demonstrators flocking to the Jim Crow South in 1965, Rabbi H. David Teitelbaum wanted everyone to know he was a Jew. Next to the supplies he was advised to pack for the famous march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. — crash helmet, sleeping bag, dried food, Sterno for emergency heat — was a stack of kippahs . The round cloth atop his head sparked intrigue among the black people with whom he was marching. “People came up to me and asked, ‘What are those cap...

Glenn Beck Dangerous To The Tea Party Movement
     Judging by this headline, you're probably wondering, "What is this all about?". I can see some folks blood boiling just about now, ready to close the window, but hold on for a second and let me explain. No, I do not work for MSNBC or Huffington Post, and I do not despise Glenn Beck. To the contrary, I really want to like Glenn Beck, he has been a very influential figure especially since the start of the Tea Party Movement, he has awakened millions of Americans who have never ...

I Chose Liberty
I Chose Liberty, a collection of short intellectual biographies of contemporary Libertarians edited by Walter Block, is quite entertaining. Richard Epstein, Gordon Tullock, Judge Napolitano, John Hasnas, Ron Paul, Bryan Caplan, myself and many others are included. Need I tell you whose biography begins: When I was about thirteen, I decided I wanted to read all of the good books in the public library. I started with the Dialogues of Plato... You can buy it here or here is the free pdf. Hat tip:...

Nothing left to lose except freedom
When people have nothing left to lose they go crazy. Was that the end game for the people who ran Washington for the past four years? The Congress alone passed more bills and spent more money than any other according to some sources with the lowest Approval Rating in history. Strategic writing of these bills hold off on the effects until others are in office. Many of those bills were not even read by members who voted on them. At one point the Presidents numbers had dipped so low that Democrat s...

Dumbest Attack Ever on Ron Paul?
The Atlantic Monthly’s Daniel Indiviglio talks to Fed agents, past and present; absorbs its website; and in, general, drinks the Fed Kool-Aid. He then attacks Ron Paul for writing a book called End the Fed, which he has not even read. Yes, it’s mainstream journalism at its typical. See Bob Wenzel’s smackdown of one of the regime’s media Bodyguards. ...

Dick Fisher vs. Ron Paul
Dallas Fed President Dick Fisher loves everything about Texas. Well, almost everything. Fisher made a Speech Wednesday that is titled "The Limits of Monetary Policy," explaining why we shouldn't blame the Fed for our economic malaise. But like many of Fisher's speeches, this one might as well be subtitled "Don't forget how great Texas is." Fisher compares the diverging fortunes of various overstretched states with his one and only. The upshot is that places like Ohio, California ...

Why True Libertarians Critique Corporatism
James Joyner’s explanation of why Libertarians don’t care about corporate power, which DougJ links below, falls short. Joyner says “Libertarianism, by any definition, is concerned about intrusion on individual liberty by the government”. Using that definition, he argues that wondering whether modern Libertarians don’t write about corporate abuses of power is like wondering “why NARAL doesn’t spend more time advocating for the plight of stray cats.̶...

Fed's Fisher: monetary policy done and now its congress's turn, and, go ahead and end the Fed's mandate for full employment
Richard Fisher, President of the Dallas Fed comes out with his thoughts on the limits of Monetary Policy. Like we've said before, printing money does not create jobs. Neither does Congress for that matter. But Congress can do much more to create the conditions that the Private Sector will create jobs. Their fiscal and regulatory policies create business conditions under which companies will make investments or not. The main crux of his Speech was that, the Fed has done all they can do, the ball...

Paul Krugman Exposes Milton Friedman (Thanks to Ron Paul)
Writes Robert Wenzel: Wow, Paul Krugman is so desperate to get at Ron Paul and the Austrian School that he has just exposed Milton Friedman as a lefty. Read the rest. ...

House GOP: Health Care Repeal Vote Is Still On
The Repeal vote was scheduled for earlier this week but was postponed in order for the House to pass a resolution on the shootings in Arizona (they were against it, even Ron Paul who normally votes no or skips these kinds of ceremonial votes played along). Now it's time to get back to work. A Cantor spokeswoman confirmed the vote Thursday afternoon. “As the White House noted, it is important for Congress to get back to work, and to that end we will resume thoughtful consideration of the health...

Slow Cycle
In discussing the 2012 Presidential Campaign, I've been a bit disrespectful of the odds for Republican dark horses who may be big time players in Washington or in the eyes of pundits, but do not exactly walk tall in the places that actually determine presidential nominations. Now comes Dave Weigel with a timely reminder of just how slowly this presidential cycle is getting underway compared to the situation four years ago. Here's a list of all the Candidates who had at least announced explor...

Obamas Orotund Oration
Writes Steve Kline, Jr.: I didn’t watch the Speech because I don’t care what he or any other politician (save Ron Paul) says about anything. But my uncle came in to work this morning saying it was the best Speech he heard Obama give (he’s not a fan of his either). He gave me one section to read — the part where Obama talks about the little girl that died and her dreams, etc. The first thing that jumped out at me was Obama saying everything she dreamed and thought about glorified th

Poll Watch: Public Policy Polling Pennsylvania 2012 GOP Primary
PPP Pennsylvania 2012 GOP Primary Mike Huckabee 26% ( 23% ) {19%} [20%] (27%) Sarah Palin 21% (16%) {19%} [ 24% ] (27%) Mitt Romney 16% (16%) { 20% } [16%] ( 31% ) Newt Gingrich 15% (15%) {19%} [23%] Tim Pawlenty 6% (2%) Ron Paul 5% Mitch Daniels 2% (2%) Someone else/Undecided 9% (22%) Among Conservatives Mike Huckabee 27% ( 25% ) {20%} [22%] (28%) Sarah Palin 23% (17%) {18%} [ 28% ] ( 31% ) Newt Gingrich 15% (15%) { 22% } [24%] Mitt Romney 14% (15%) {21%} [14%] (28%) Tim Pawlenty 9% (3%) Ron...

5 Rules for Coping with Tragedy
Want to Use Rainwater? Get a "Water Right". Ron Paul: The Future of the GOP? What is David Price Afraid of? King is a king idiot. His… The views and opinions expressed by individual authors are not necessarily those of other authors, advertisers, developers or editors at United Liberty. ...

Gun Control and the Tucson Shootings
As we’ve witnessed over the past five days the left has pulled out all the stops to gain political advantage from the tragic shootings in Tucson. We’ve endured the spectacle of the leftist punditocracy shrilly blaming opinions opposed to the Obama Administration for the actions of an obviously schizophrenic young man who has been described by his friends as a Left Wing doper who was disengaged from current politics. We’ve seen the addled superannuated “sheriff” la...