Nov 1, 2012 – He’s a smart guy to be sure, but my buddy Sean Davis has a great must read about how you too can be the next Nate Silver with a cheap … Lastly, as a number of people have noted, including Sean Davis in this piece, the big issue this year is whether or not the state polls … I’m no baseball scout, but batting .200 when it counts won’t get you into the big leagues, let alone the All-Star game.…

Nov 1, 2012 – So, FTC is posturing about Google and antitrust, trying to paint itself as the poor little guy against the big, bad corporation, which … But at the same time I’m reminded of when Google painted itself the tiny victim of big, bad ISPs like MetroPCS and T-Mobile. … This isn’t some guy reselling his own stuff. This is a guy who was in the business of undercutting the copyright holders.…

Oct 31, 2012 – future is projected from the raw data, on the assumption that the future will behave like the past. … Consider an argument Michael Lewis makes in his book The Big Short: nearly everybody involved in the mortgage-backed securities market … (As it happened, the RCP averages at the end of the cycle did the same thing, as they did in 2008.)…

Nov 11, 2012 – If he loses women by as big as he is starting to lose the women, he cannot win.So Mitt Romney will be the nominee. … And voters would rather the guy they don’t like than they guy they don’t trust. … pose as the faces, voices, and writers of the conservative movement at large, keep throwing their lot in with a guy who keeps selling…

Nov 9, 2012 – “But I have real numbers.” […] “I’m very surprised, as digital guy, about the pushback people are getting” over Orca, Moffatt … Sources also said that arrogance played a big role, saying that the Romney campaign was a hostile battlefield of egos in which these … One source saying “they looked at the guy who could raise the most money in history as a ride” adding that “money no longer matters…

Nov 7, 2012 – Obama spent a ton of money over the summer doing the big thing you need to do against a non-incumbent: defining Romney in the eyes … , both national and statewide: 1) The Clueless Rich Guy: The wealthy or self-funded candidate with little or no political experience … Voters looking for change are a lot less likely to pull the lever for a guy who has been out of the fight that long.…

Nov 7, 2012 – Ultimately, the guy whom we knew thought he was better than anyone else was going to make statements revealing that attitude. … Finally, People, At The Presidential Level, More Often Than Not, Vote For “The Nice Guy.” … By conceding, falsely, that the arrogant jerk Obama was “a nice guy,” simply because that’s what the biased polling was saying, the…

Nov 28, 2012 – See, right there you can determine the tone that the Denver Post was encountering from the office of the Governor. … The basic quandary here is that John Hickenlooper doesn’t want to be The Guy Who Legalized Pot In America. … Big ones. Special malpractice insurance? Big time. A special ‘pot tax’ to pay for all the increased medical costs from smoking?…

Nov 27, 2012 – About the only major group to use it was FreedomWorks, which, unlike a lot of other big groups on the right, decided not to go proprietary … , a candidate needs 13% of the population to win.But, and this is a big but, of the 25% of the population that can and does vote, 9% … , instead of setting up some consultant to be the king maker and power broker.So rich guy, you want to win or you want to be the gate…

Jan 20, 2011 – with the “Big Lie” originating from none other than Adolph Hitler’s famous screed Mein Kampf, later tweaked by Nazi Propaganda Minister … I find it doubly interesting that Cohen would use the “Big Lie” as his comparison, given his attempt to perpetuate the discredited … I consider any Republican who chooses to sit next to this guy at the State of the Union to be giving tacit endorsement to the belief…

Jan 20, 2011 – Cohen responded to the President’s call for civility by calling the Republican party a bunch of Nazis.   … Cohen is precisely the sort of person who can’t feel big until he’s made everybody around him small; and since people like that rarely … Your last two primaries have been the political equivalent of the Iran-Iraq war: the most moral option in both was to root for injuries…

Jan 17, 2011 – It’s on the US taxpayers. … Patrick_Murdock You can Trust your Car to the Man who wears the Star, the big Red Communist Star ! … KC All the experts I know agree… The oil drilling moratorium is doing wonders for the economy. conservativemusician Mr.…

Jan 12, 2011 – of a run for President of the United States in the 2012 election. … Then imagine the same guy is a movement conservative. Then imagine the guy actually ran for president. … Tea Parties are far more likely to set the tone, and if the early behavior of the new Congress is any indicator, the Tea Parties are…

Jan 24, 2011 – The ideals of the Tea Party really are the Republican party planks. … It is hoped that the election of a guy like Marco Rubio will bring back the fiscal discipline and other Tea Party principles that once … The New York Times editorial board called for Scalia to cancel his commitment. This doesn’t seem like a big deal.…

Jan 24, 2011 – He is, however, a great guy and I certainly don’t intend to knock him on the front page of RedState. … There was also the vote for the debt limit, the flip-flop into support of ethanol, gun control issues, the morning after pill controversy … This race may be the big grassroots vs. party establishment race of 2012 and a test of the tea party’s continued momentum.…

May 8, 2014 – Furthermore, since there was no statistical association at the 95% confidence limits, the EPA lowered the limit to 90%. … And if one their noble puritans occasionally strays, it’s not so big a deal in the context of the greater jihad. … Thus, the EPA is a filth-rhymed cesspool breeding blood-sucking mosquitoes because they follow the example being set by the guy up…

May 6, 2014 – Regardless of the fact, the Ben Rhodes email establishes the lie about the internet video as the main theme of all government responses … My bet is on the guy who was writing the memo blaming a “spontaneous mob reaction.” … She resorted to her best friend to save her: THE BIG LIE. 5.…

May 14, 2014 – The Sasse campaign, for the time being, is not returning the love. … If that means playing nice with the guy who was on the other side in the primary, again, so be it. … This is the way the world runs, folks.  And if you’re depressed, consider the Democrats’ problem.  …

May 13, 2014 – If you’re a little guy and weak it doesn’t happen all that often because there is nothing gained in the way of building a reputation … If you are the big, fat, stupid kid, then bullies line up to mess with you. … from the Senate and questioned the logic behind the agreement.…

May 21, 2014 – campaign unaware of the balance of powers, the polarization of politics, the right-ward march of the GOP and other structural limits … There’s never been a Big Government failure quite like ObamaCare, and the VA scandal is a fast-forward look at where it’s dragging … People are suckers for Big Government because they think the bums can be thrown out of office if they mess up.  …

May 21, 2014 – unhappy people in the state, despite the fact that McConnell is the party leader and wields so much power.  … These candidates ran against the establishment side of the argument, and in the case of immigration, they signed the FAIR pledge against … He is one of the best candidates of the cycle and will provide us with a bold contrast in the runoff. …

Jun 5, 2014 – The leftys want you to fear the big boys like Comcast, but it’s just not happening. … The first big test case was when FCC went after Comcast for targeting users who were running copyright infringement rings on their … If NFL wants blackouts, let NFL enforce its own blackouts and be the bad guy.…

May 31, 2014 – By the way, the extreme Net Neutrality alternative pushed by the far left, Title II Reclassification? … The guy who fled to China and Russia wants us to believe his documents are full and genuine, but NSA’s are cherrypicked and lying. … Even better: the GOP idea currently isn’t a big comprehensive bill!…

Jun 19, 2014 – show up at your house, it’s like the Internet on paper but with fewer cats) realized it was a big deal. … The. Eff. … (Warning: NSFW) If a big and important Governor apologizes for not taking time to talk to a supermajority of the top elected law…

Jun 17, 2014 – Or student loan reform: but not the ‘make debts dischargeable by bankruptcy and put schools partially on the hook for the bad loans … Empirical evidence to the contrary, it wasn’t exactly my intent to unload on the poor guy who has to somehow turn five and a half years … This guy doesn’t even have that, and while I will not judge anybody who callously shrugs at the author’s poor life choices I’m just…