July 9, 2008

Memo to Goldberg and Ponnuru: Go After McCain not Helms

Helms was one of the last true conservatives in the Senate. Helms put anti-communism before “democraticization,” stood up for Southern Heritage, opposed bureaucratic "civil rights" agenda, and the cult of Martin Luther King. This makes him an easy target for liberals to smear, but most grassroots conservatives and the old guard of the “movement” see Helms as a hero. This puts the beltway right in a bit of dillema.

Sounding Black

Steven Levitt's Freakonomics column points to a working paper, Speech Patterns and Racial Wage Inequality, by a U.

How To Win At Games of Chance

Time Magazine has an article on how John McCain, no surprise, loves to roll the dice in casinos, while Barack Obama played poker every Wednesday night in Springfield with other legislators and lobbyists. Most nights Obama won.

In fact, that would have to be just about my number one tip on how to win at gambling: Be a state legislator and play poker against lobbyists.

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