Standing Athwart Congress, Yelling "Go Home!"

The Club for Growth's Andrew Roth crunched the numbers, and showed investors can be more successful when Congress is not in session. This is dubbed the "DC Effect", where markets react negatively to the unpredictability of possible new regulation on business.

Giuliani’s Campaign Plans Leaked!

Hot Air's Allahpundit comments on the New York Daily News' report on leaked internal documents from the Giuliani campaign: "the political and personal weak points it identifies are well known and most of the document apparently deals with fundraising, not strategy. They got it, so they say, from a “source sympathetic to one of Giuliani’s rivals for the White House,” who claims it was accidentally left behind at a campaign stop Rudy made on behalf of a Republican candidate in November. Whether that’s true and someone was careless or whether someone on the inside is disgruntled and handed it off, it ain’t good."

Outside the Beltway's James Joyner adds, "Aside from listing the people Giuliani plans to target to handle key organizational roles–which gives a heads up to rivals and creates potential embarrassment if he is unsuccessful at bringing them on board–this doesn’t seem like that big of a deal."

Race 4 2008's Woodrow Eisenhower calls this act the "first dirty trick in the oncoming war for the Republican nomination."

Hired Blogger Guns Update

Former Rep. Jack Kingston Blogger David All on his blog has a two part essay focusing on the online Success of the Senator George Allen's "Macaca Controversy" and provides a plan to ensure it never happens again. Here is Part 1 & Part 2.

And speaking of Senator George Allen, as Right Angle's Matt Lewis notes, Jon Henke, Allen's former blogger, was recently named New Media Director for the Republican Communications Office in the Senate. Good luck, Jon!

Loony Lefties

Right Wing News' John Hawkins published his list of the twenty most annoying liberals in the United States. Who tops the list? PMSNBC's obnoxious TV host Keith Olbermann, who is still obsessed about Bill O'Reilly's sex life.

Hey ABC, That is Really Sic and Classless

News Busters' Mark Finkelstein opines on an outrageous act by ABC News. ABC, while reporting the death of Army Specialist Dustin Donica of Texas and comments left by friends on Donica's MySpace page, made an obvious editorial comment in their on-screen graphic:



The "(sic)" is apparently correcting the religious faith that was being expressed. Finkelstein opines, "Does traditional religious belief strike ABC as so odd or erroneous as to require a snide little 'sic'?"

Ed Driscoll believes those three letters exposes the Blue/Red state divide, and is another example of why Fox News does so well in the ratings.

Freedom's Zone's Richard reminds us of ABC's background: "Are we assuming ABC's intentions? Perhaps, but after all, they do have a history of being anti-faith, and especially anti-Christian."

Editor's Note

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