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Worcester County has some TEA
In days of old there was a superstition that a voyage should not begin on Friday and beginning it on Friday the 13th was a complete no-no. But the Worcester County TEA Party decided to buck tradition...
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Six Senate candidates, one forum
A couple weeks back there was a candidates’ forum conducted by the Cecil County Patriots in conjunction with Americans for Prosperity. Six of the ten GOP hopefuls were present (in reverse alphabetical...
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Picket line and dueling rallies to punctuate Maryland Special Session
One participant only expects it to last two days, but the upcoming Special Session of the Maryland General Assembly may have just as much action on the outside as it will on the inside. As currently...
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A friend needs a hand
Originally I was going to write this evening about the Maryland DREAM Act debate which happened in Salisbury last night, but that isn’t time-sensitive so I’ll post my thoughts on that tomorrow. In the...
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Odds and ends number 60
More dollops of blogworthy goodness, neatly bundled up in short, paragraph-or-three packages. I put them together and you raptly absorb them. It seems to be a good formula. If you believe it’s time to...
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A friend needs a hand again (and so do I)
You may recall that last week Melody Scalley of AFP Virginia was looking for people to do door-to-door campaigning in the Hampton Roads area. Well, the same rules apply for this weekend and the two...
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Lollar’s second draft
Those of you who have been following Maryland politics for awhile may recall that in 2010, before Bob Ehrlich finally made up his mind whether to give it another go and even prior to the upstart Brian...
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Who can deliver a message?
Now that I’ve posed the question about whether a pro-liberty message can play in Maryland, the logical follow-up is who will be able to deliver it? Of course, the most obvious answer is the Maryland...
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Odds and ends number 64
Since my e-mail box is filling up with items I’ve been meaning to get to and I spent part of my day today cleaning out our garage, it’s in that spirit that I present to you yet another heaping helping...
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Not to be forgotten
In recent weeks, 2012 U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino has created a lot of buzz regarding his future plans, rumors which included everything from being appointed to the recently vacated Anne Arundel...
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Odds and ends number 73
As I often do, here’s a collection of little items which grow to become one BIG item. And I have a LOT of them – so read fast. For example, I learned the other day that Richard Rothschild, who spoke so...
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Gas tax study: jobs could be lost
Late last month the Americans for Prosperity Foundation – Maryland, along with the Sage Policy Group, released a study claiming that possibly over 1,000 jobs could be lost in Maryland if the gasoline...
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Leadership turnover in Maryland House
Of course, it’s not with the Democrats. This was supposed to happen several weeks ago during session, but cooler heads prevailed and pushed the vote back to last night. All it did, though, was delay...
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Free advertising (for the politically correct)
The e-mail was from Americans for Prosperity, and perhaps it came across as a little shrill. But interim Maryland AFP director Nick Loffer brought up a pretty good point: Governor O’Malley is spending...
View ArticleHarris continues with high AFP marks
It should come as no surprise that a grassroots group which has over the years strongly backed our Congressman, Andy Harris, would give him high marks for his overall voting pattern. But Americans for...
View ArticleThe grand tour
In previous years I’ve told you about a number of bus tours – everything from national and regional tours sponsored by the TEA Party Express and Americans for Prosperity to the jaunts which opened two...
View ArticleThe font of wisdom
It’s always fun to needle the opposition a little bit. So yesterday I got an e-mail from Americans for Prosperity which didn’t say anything particularly new, but made its point in a fairly familiar...
View ArticleLeaving the resistance: a case study
This article was actually going to be about one piece of information I received, but then I got another which I can tie in. I do that every now and then. The TEA Party movement, depending on how you...
View ArticleThe peril of ‘dark money’
Of all the states in the union, South Dakota is not one where I have a ton of readership – maybe one or two a month wander by here from the Mount Rushmore State. But I have somehow found my way to the...
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Reliable bogeymen
You know the other side has nothing in their bag of ideas when you see this recycled old chestnut of an appeal for cash: This from the side with a President who regularly finds millionaires willing to...
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