Patrick Ruffini notes the ongoing efforts by Ron Paul supporters to elect delegates to Republican county conventions, who in turn elect state convention delegates, who often elect the delegates to the GOP’s national convention in the Twin Cities.  Ruffini links to stories from Alaska, Florida, Missouri and Minnesota.  For example, in Kansas City, the caucus elected more than 170 Paul delegates out of an estimated 187 available; Paulians ultimately snagged about a

Oh, for X’s sake!  This is just absolutely inappropriate! What does he think this is?  Graduate school? Can’t be too hard on the guy, I guess, considering he’s probably not a racist.

From  Rusty, via Ace: Rozita Swinton, the woman arrested today for falsely tipping off the police that she was an abused child bride at the FLDS polygamy cult in Texas is a PLEDGED BARACK OBAMA STATE DELEGATE!! It was her initial false report that started the investigation which has led to the removal of 400 children from their parents’ custody. Presumably, like those Japs running around in the jungle long

We’ve got Bernie Sanders and Pat Leahy, and Howard Dean’s from here, too. For kicks, I subscribe to Bernie’s email newsletter, and in his latest he petitioned us for our woeful stories of our situation in the midst of the collapsing middle class. Well, property taxes here in Vermont are among the highest in the nation, despite stringent environmental and population-density regulations. Now, Vermont is attempting to impose its own

Over at Vodkapundit, Will Collier has a great post up about Newspeak censorship at Thesaurus.com–one involving our friends at Feministing and the concept of “weakness.” David Thompson has an excellent post up on weakness, as well: A position of relative weakness is, bizarrely, deemed one of de facto virtue, one that “overrides” other considerations, no doubt in the interests of convenience. Thus, for instance, a random Muslim can be designated

…for the Samsphere conference. Or don’t. It’s a free market political activism thing, after all, so it’s not like it needs your cruddy charity. Samsphere will not play the victim card! — Having said that, if you’re in the Denver area and have the inclination, drop by the Adam’s Mark Hotel; I’ll be speaking on the 1:00 panel. What I’ll be speaking about is anyone’s guess at this point —

OpenLeft’s Chris Bowers (an Obama backer) argues that — after all of the intraparty sound and fury of the past few months — the Michigan delegation will be seated at the convention with a pledged delegate breakdown of Clinton 73 and Obama 55, while Florida will be seated with a pledged delegate breakdown of Clinton 105, Obama 67, and Edwards 13.   After many of his readers’ heads exploded, Bowers posted a follow-up, noting

The Huffington Post carries a piece from Celeste Fremon about what Hillary Clinton says in secret: At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the “activist base” of the Democratic Party — and MoveOn.org in particular — for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had “flooded” state caucuses and “intimidated” her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The