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Confirmation of both ARG and Ras polls, PPP just tweeted: "Big gainer since last week in our SC poll: Ron Paul. Big loser since last week: Rick Santorum. Little change for most others" Nice!

*Ahem* I went on a mission for the LDS church to Spain in 2000-2002, and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. My grandpa wanted to go on a mission, but the military wasn't allowing the LDS church to send out every young man who wanted to go, and...

I donated around 10:00 pacific, and I first got the "no recipient" error, resubmitted the donation, and then got the "processing..." and it sat there. No email confirmation. I called headquarters and they took my info, and said they'd charge me if the other one didn't go through, but they'd...

See what USA Today had to say about it a little while back: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm Here are the highlights: Check out that growth differential. 8.8% vs 36.9%. That's what you call "fleecing".

Aye. I voted here in the SF bay area, and yeah, it's a little depressing. I'm not in John Dennis' district, but I put in my vote against George "Pelosi's lapdog" Miller. I'm watching Rand in Kentucky with a lot more enthusiasm than my own races here. CA politics suck. I don't know at what...

I don't mean the campaign should say that...but we can say that just to poke fun at them. ;)

Hah! The correct response to Conway over that is: His campaign will return that money when Jack gives up all the profits he took from stocks in energy companies that convinced him to let them hike rates in Kentucky. Pornographers are disgusting, but Rand had nothing to do with that. Jack had...

Yeah, the other ads that are running (like the latest from the NRSC) will likely neutralize this one. Nobody in their right mind believes that a politician would actually support destroying the CRA. I hope (and suspect) this will just be viewed as another desperate attempt to regain ground on...

I think I know what Rand and his staff are up to. Let me illustrate with a story. There's a guy who does Krav Maga (Israeli martial arts / military-style combat) that once was attacked on the street. He started yelling for help, but pulled the attacker in close, held him up, and was pummeling...

Over $260k now. The donation meter is going off the edge of the banner it's so long now, w00t!

I have now gouged my eyes out. :p I'm glad everyone here has a healthy sense of humor about all this. Jack Conway is definitely a joke, so I suppose it's not that hard to laugh at it. I hope Rand's press conference tomorrow only briefly handles the ad, and then moves the discussion for most...

Heh, that totally rocks. I'll bet Rand's got money coming in as fast as he's spending it. Hopefully this means he's going to have a decent war chest when he wins in November because everyone deluges him with money so much that he can't spend it fast enough before the election is over. :D

But the rest of us can be the ones bringing it up, and we might manage to get it in the limelight enough that Rand's campaign doesn't have to even comment on it until it's already being reported on by the media more fully. Now, if the media refuses to even look at it at all, then at some point...

In addition to pulling the cord on it to break the news cycle, HE is driving their interest and ratings right now. For him to essentially give them the middle finger on an important show on their network is another way of saying "I won't drive up your ratings if you screw with me, you...

I totally agree with that. I don't see any harm in him mentioning the Mises Institution; dropping, say, DiLorenzo's name; talking about true free-market solutions to problems, etc. But there's a balance to keep, and so he probably needs some little adjustments. Big ones...maybe not, but once...