Update on the US government’s 2011 attack on Gibson Guitars.
To refresh your memory: the government decided that the Gibson Guitar company was in violation of Indian law (which, thanks to something called the Lacey Act, meant that they had the right to butt in),...
View ArticleWell, the two SOTU responses helped redeem the night.
Not much need for analysis on this one, but generally: Marco Rubio’s speech was solid, well thought-out, and aside from that water bobble thing (which he smartly made fun of himself, afterward) on-key....
View ArticleBarack Obama’s basic filibuster mistake.
And it’s a mistake that has little if anything to do with the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director (although having House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell somewhat surprisingly announce that he...
View ArticleSpeaking *as* a neocon hawk who enjoyed Rand Paul’s filibuster…
…I agree with Allahpundit’s reaction to John McCain’s / Lindsey Graham’s reaction to said filibuster: You would think Maverick might at least seize the opportunity to note that the guy who beat him...
View ArticleQotD, Nobody In The White House Knows How To Play This Game edition.
(H/T: @allahpundit) I can’t believe that a senior administration official would TELL Yahoo News this: “Sen. Paul’s 13 hours on the Senate floor won’t have any practical effect on our policy and how...
View ArticleQotD, I Wish To Associate Myself With The Remarks… edition.
…of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia: I support killing bad guys with drones overseas. Hell, I’m okay with killing bad guys in the United States with drones if they are about to cause imminent...
View ArticleTNR… trying to make the case for Rand Paul in 2016.
Wait. This stuff is bad? OK, I don’t normally fisk, but I gotta do this one. From The New Republic’s rather alarmed profiling of Senator Rand Paul: In the Senate, Paul gained a reputation as an...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd: Yeah, OK, Rand Paul is onto something here with regard to Bill...
This is an interesting Maureen Dowd piece: there’s a good bit less teeth-gritting going on than I expected. Senator Claire McCaskill told Andrea Mitchell that she found [Senator Rand] Paul’s comments...
View ArticleThe answer to Marco Rubio’s and Rand Paul’s problem is simple.
The problem is simple: both men are Senators in states where you cannot run for two federal positions at the same time. The answer is equally simple: neither should run for President in 2016. Rand...
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When it comes to Rand Paul’s skipping the DREAMER/Steve King discussion…
…Come, I will conceal nothing from you. I would have stood not on the order of my coming but gone at once, too. Rand Paul: Whoa, Look At The Time. Yeah, I Have A Thing, So I Gotta Go. But Hey, Nice To...
View ArticleRand Paul wins the coveted Dick Morris Seal of Disapproval.
Yeah, Dick Morris has come out and said, point-blank, that Rand Paul cannot win. Which means… Rand Paul really does have a chance, then. And I’m not saying anything that nobody else is: if Intrade...
View ArticleRand Paul has no time for your journalistic tomfoolery.
Senator Rand Paul and I are not likely to exchange Christmas cards any time soon – after all, he’s a libertarian and I’m a neoconservative. But I’ll say this: I could watch him piss off the media all...
View ArticleSen. Rand Paul looks likely to be able to run for Senate and President next...
Politico: “The Kentucky GOP’s central committee voted Saturday to adopt a presidential caucus system next year, clearing the way Republican Sen. Rand Paul to run for president and reelection at the...
View ArticleI try not to take sides in the primary…
…but I agree with Leon Wolf: if the below ad is what the Rand Paul campaign has been reduced to, then it is long since past time that the man retires from the Presidential race and concentrates on his...
View ArticleBernie Sanders fans want to recruit Rand Paul supporHAHAHAHAHAHA No.
Look. Rand Paul is a libertarian. Bernie Sanders is a socialist. A socialist is pretty much the polar opposite of a libertarian. A libertarian is pretty much the polar opposite of a socialist. And...
View Article#rsrh @maddow, come on over to the Dark Side.
We have cookies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0YS9RS3Lk I’m not saying that you have to go Full Metal Pachyderm or anything; but come on. Wouldn’t you rather see Rand Paul in that Senate seat?...
View Article‘I will not be shaking his hand tonight…’
That will probably be the most quoted line from the Rand Paul / Jack Conway debate last night, and for good reason: it represents a rather drastic line in the sand drawn against the scurrilous and...
View ArticleChris Matthews brings DOOM unto Jack Conway.
Yes. That Chris Matthews. Matthews apparently did not personally approve of the way that Jack Conway smeared Rand Paul with a recent scurrilous ad, and so took the opportunity to smack Conway around...
View Article#rsrh Cutting the deficit.
So Senator Rand Paul (R, KY) wants to cut 500 billion dollars from the deficit. And people are freaking out about it, because there’s stuff on his list that people don’t want to cut. Everybody’s got...
View ArticleFederal security forces ‘detain’ prominent opposition legislator…
…on his way to a mass anti-administration rally. The Daily Caller reports: the short version is, the TSA in Nashville detained Senator Rand Paul (R, KY) after their body scanner went on the fritz and...
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