American Glob

Before you watch the video of Capt. Pete Hegseth below, there are a few things you should know.

Caleb Howe at Red State says of this testimony, “Devastating. There’s nothing to add.”

While I understand the point Caleb is making, I contend that there’s plenty to add in the name of clarity so that we’re all on the same page.

1. Elena Kagan justified her Harvard Law School activism against military recruiters on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by calling it a “policy of the United States Military” when in fact, it was a policy of President Bill Clinton, a man for whom she would eventually work.

2. Harvard University receives big money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

3. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lashes and/or executes people for the “crime” of being gay.

In other words, in Elena Kagan’s world it’s OK to execute gay people as long as you’re from an Islamic country that gives gazillions of dollars to Harvard. However, if you want to encourage Harvard students to join the American military, you’ll be run out on a rail as a homophobe.

This is the America in which we currently live. A country where liberals, progressives or whatever they are now calling themselves, will partner with a culture that seeks to murder the very people Democrats claim to protect for nothing more than politics, money and the furtherance of their agenda.

With all that in mind, watch this video and ask yourself if you think Elena Kagan should sit on America’s highest court.

This is from ColdWarrior at Red State…

On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”

Here’s the video. Hope you’re sitting down…

Be sure to read ColdWarrior’s entire post for more analysis and additional video.

There isn’t much difference, really.

Both are bloggers, both claim to have had lurid sexual encounters with rising politicians and both want you to just take their word for it.

One difference between them is that Will Folks made his outrageous claim about a conservative Republican woman, while Larry Sinclair made his outrageous claim about a liberal Democrat man.

The other difference is that the media paid attention to one of them. Guess which one…

As noted HERE, HERE and HERE, the media didn’t ignore Will Folks at all, even as he tried to play the victim.

There was no credibility for the claims made by either of these men. Their stories should have been treated the same way. As in, the way one handles garbage.

Nikki Haley’s campaign stood strong and in the end she emerged the victor, but one has to wonder if she would have crossed the 50% mark and thus avoided a runoff were it not for Will Folks and his media aided smear campaign.

In the end, Nikki Haley will be the new governor of South Carolina.

Will Folks, like Larry Sinclair, will just be damaged goods.

A well deserved victory.

Nikki Haley, the Republican South Carolina candidate for governor is on her way to the South Carolina governor’s office.

Despite the smear tactics used against her by bloggers and competitors, she got almost 49% of the vote in last night’s Republican primary.

I’m so looking forward to November. Can you already picture campaign events for Nikki Haley with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie?

What about Sarah Palin or Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal? Haley will likely also get support from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, as well as Florida senate candidate Marco Rubio.

Below, you’ll find a round-up of Nikki Haley awesome-ness.

Erick Erickson of Red State, an ardent and early supporter of Haley, says she is now The Most Dangerous Woman in South Carolina…

They called Nikki Haley a whore. They called her a raghead. Now they better start practicing calling her Governor.

Nikki Haley came within a percentage point or two of avoiding a runoff for the Republican nomination in South Carolina. Despite all the smears and all the foul play, she is a winner.

The second place finisher, Congressman Gresham Barrett, goes into the runoff roughly 27% behind Haley.

This race also makes Nikki Haley the most dangerous woman in South Carolina. The old order, the old way of doing things, has been decidedly defeated. The runoff becomes the last stand — a TARP voting establishmentarian versus the outsider accountant they threw everything at.

Politico notes that Haley mopped the floor with her competition despite the smear campaign…

State Rep. Nikki Haley trounced U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, her closest rival in the four-way Republican primary for governor Tuesday, but will face him again in two weeks in a runoff election.

Amid two allegations of infidelity and an ethnic slur, Haley ran as the reform candidate scorned by the good ol’ boy network – and she’s been crowned the voters’ Cinderella. With nearly all the precincts reporting, she was winning nearly 49 percent of the vote, more than twice Barrett’s 22 percent. But she needed to pass 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff.

“We knew from the very beginning it was us versus the establishment,” Haley told a cheering election night crowd in Columbia. “I won’t stop until we get a conservative House, a conservative Senate, and conservative governor.”

David Weigel at the Washington Post explains why there will be no runoff election…

A surprisingly blunt press release from the Republican Governors Association all but calls for Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-S.C.) to stand down and let Nikki Haley start running for governor of South Carolina, after she missed the right to avoid a runoff by the narrowest of margins.

The statement from Executive Director, Nick Ayers:

The voters of South Carolina made a clear choice in Nikki Haley, notwithstanding the possibility of a runoff. The outcome is all but certain. Nikki Haley withstood a barrage of innuendoes and slurs in the closing days of the primary season and persevered to the finish with dignity, determination and confidence. Moreover, receiving half of the votes against two other statewide incumbent Republicans and a sitting Congressman speaks volumes of her strength as a candidate and bodes very well for her in the General Election. We congratulate Nikki for her grit and determination.

Congratulations to Nikki Haley!

If you follow American Glob, you may have noticed I’m not covering the coordinated smear campaign against Republican South Carolina gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Haley.

There are two reasons for that.

The first reason is that the subject is already being superbly covered by Red State, Robert Stacy McCain and Ace. I applaud their coverage of this story and their defense of Haley.

The second reason is that I simply don’t buy any of it. This baseless attack on Haley is made of the same crap we’ve seen hurled at Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann on a regular basis. As Nikki Haley notes in the video below, the attacks against her only came when she started polling well.

With that in mind, I saw a great post on Red State tonight by Moe Lane which has a video of a debate where Nikki Haley confronts one of the smear merchants working against her. I had to wade into this subject, if only to show you this video. Nikki Haley is pretty awesome.

I’ve never been to South Carolina, but I bet the voters of The Palmetto State know the truth when they hear it. Hopefully, they’re listening to Nikki Haley.

More Chris Christie awesomeness.

Hot Air was all over this last night, so go there if you want to be brought up to speed. The video comes from Cubachi.

The best part is that when Christie reminds this woman that she doesn’t have to be a teacher if she doesn’t want to, the audience applauds. Note that the teacher makes it sound like teaching has nothing to do with money, as she stands there and complains about nothing but… money.

BONUS: Erick Erickson at Red State suggests that this teacher might already be making more money than she’s demanding in the video.

UPDATE: Instapundit links! Welcome Insta-readers!

Left wing/media + Tea Party = Define. Demonize. Rinse. Repeat.

It’s like watching a 3 year old struggle with a jigsaw puzzle for AGES 14 AND UP.

The 3 year old thinks he’s grown up enough to do the puzzle, but after hours of frustration, throws the box of pieces at the wall in anger and screams “RACISTS!”

Charles Blow of The New York Times hit that breaking point last week.

Mark Lilla, writing in the New York Review of Books is the latest 3 year old to step up to the plate.

Many Americans, a vocal and varied segment of the public at large, have now convinced themselves that educated elites—politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, but also doctors, scientists, even schoolteachers—are controlling our lives. And they want them to stop. They say they are tired of being told what counts as news or what they should think about global warming; tired of being told what their children should be taught, how much of their paychecks they get to keep, whether to insure themselves, which medicines they can have, where they can build their homes, which guns they can buy, when they have to wear seatbelts and helmets, whether they can talk on the phone while driving, which foods they can eat, how much soda they can drink…the list is long.

Apparently, by Lilla’s estimation, Americans should not be allowed to decide these things for themselves. Don’t you cave men know that your social betters know what’s in your best interest? Lilla’s article is long but it doesn’t take him too long to reach the tantrum point…

A new strain of populism is metastasizing [Note the Cancer reference] before our eyes, nourished by the same libertarian impulses that have unsettled American society for half a century now. [SNIP] Welcome to the politics of the libertarian mob.

Forgive me for asking, Professor Lilla but aren’t the words “libertarian” and “mob” mutually exclusive?

Robert Stacy McCain, commenting on the same article observes…

An exaggeration, of course, but you sense the source of liberal Lilla’s frustration. What was the point of the Left’s “long march through the institutions” if, having captured those institutions, they can’t use them to tell everybody else what to do?

Streiff at RedState smartly adds…

This is a very convenient position to take when you’re in Mr. Lilla’s position. The alternative is to admit that your entire world view is being repudiated by most of the country.

Here’s an explanation of the Tea Party for Misters Blow and Lilla that any three year old could understand. Federal spending and the expansion of government under eight years of George W. Bush was bad. Under Obama, it’s already worse.

Libertarianism is not the enemy and the Tea Party movement is not racist.

Now who wants a cookie?!

Rand Paul, a Kentucky ophthalmologist and son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, is running for US Senate and has received a political blessing from Redstate Editor, Erick Erickson. That’s a pretty big deal. You may or may not remember that in October of 2007, during the Republican primary process for the 2008 presidential campaign, Ron Paul’s zealous supporters were banned from the Redstate website.

The influential conservative blog Redstate.com placed a ban last night on all Paul commentary from readers who are recent arrivals to the blog.

The post on Redstate, “Attention, Ron Paul Supporters (Life is *REALLY* Not Fair),” begins, “Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul. Those with accounts more than six months old may proceed as normal.”

Redstate founder Erick Erickson said he woke up this morning bombed with hundreds of e-mails, “the overwhelming majority very angry.” His own readers, though, loved the ban.

“It is the most recommended user diary in Redstate history,” he said.

In his carefully worded endorsement of Rand Paul, Erickson points out that there are distinct differences between Rand Paul and his father and that Rand Paul is simply a better choice than his competitors. He also points to Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Rand Paul and the obvious fact that Paul can pick up the Libertarian vote. Here are some excerpts from Erickson’s post earlier today.

We’ve taken a pretty hard line on all things “Paul” here at RedState, and even amongst the contributors I get unmitigated hell for saying I’d support Rand Paul.

But I would.

I have real reservations. No, I do not think he is a truther. No, I do not think he is a birther. No, I do not think he’d be soft on Iran. In fact, in all of the flagged statements about Rand Paul, viewing his statements in context, it is clear the reporters and others are trying to pin him down on his father’s views, not his.

SNIP.

…of the candidates running in the Republican Primary in Kentucky, I find him to be the best choice. He is really for limited government. He is really for not just the idea of freedom, but the idea of liberty — two words treated as synonyms, but with specific meanings. We often times put all our emphasis on freedom, but we should be putting our emphasis on liberty as the founders did and understood it — the right not just to be free, but to act in a moral way such that our freedoms do not encroach on the freedoms of others.

SNIP.

I have no doubt that a Senator Paul and I would but heads on issues, but no more so that I do with other Republicans. Rand Paul transcends GOP politics and picks up libertarians as well. He is not his father and I will not heap my issues with his father on his head.

I’ll join Sarah Palin and others and support Rand Paul for the United States Senate. He can win. And he’s the best of the lot in Kentucky. Your mileage may vary — I know I’m in the minority with even the other contributors — but I hope you’ll step back from your view of his father and give Rand Paul a look as his own man.

There’s been a lot of talk about the renewed alliance of Libertarians and Republicans lately, especially after the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was held a couple weeks ago.

Erickson’s endorsement of Rand Paul seems to be a continuance that trend.

My video of the best moment from tonight’s Massachusetts Senate debate. Scott Brown reminds everyone that “Its the people’s seat.”

NOTE: This video is guaranteed to go viral.

It’s being shown at Gateway Pundit and Hot Air.

The video is also being shown at Legal Insurrection and to give credit where it’s due, Professor William Jacobson has done an outstanding job covering the Scott Brown campaign.

UPDATE: The video is also being displayed at Althouse, NEO-NEOCON, Instapundit ,The Other McCain, Gay Patriot, and Weasel Zippers.

Please visit my YouTube Channel for more great vids.

BIG shout out to Smitty at The Other McCain for citing American Glob as his source for this video.

Thanks, man.

Moe Lane at Red State links, thanks Moe!

UPDATE: Linked at the top of Drudge. Wow!

Erick Erickson of Red State and James “the Ragin’ Cajun” Carville went on CNN yesterday to debate Obama’s reaction to the terror attempt on Flight 253 over Detroit.

Erickson won.