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POLLS CROWDS GRANDPARENTS

  Strangest story I saw this week, the front page story of the Drug Dealer who is constantly putting up bail for his homeys

A drug dealer arrested in a large cocaine sting earlier this month has been using cash earned from the sale of drugs to bail out his alleged dealers and others involved in cocaine trafficking, according to police.

Hey one of the basics of running a successful business is taking care of your employees

  There is a Poll out of Pittsburgh showing only a two point gap between President Obama and Mitt Romney, strangely enough while the Pittsburgh Tribune is talking about this poll and the Lonely Conservative has written on it, the MSM hasn’t said a word. This poll is +6 D in the state yet all Obama can manage is a +2 in the poll. If you can explain to me how Barack Obama is a shoe-in yet is only up 2 pts in Pennsylvania you’re a smarter man than me. Speaking of explanations there is a general rule that if you are ahead, you tend to go to states that your opponents might have a lead and start to make a move to force them to use resources in states they normally would not. That being the case can someone explain why he was campaigning in Milwaukee Wisconsin? Just last week the media was telling us he was up 14 points in this state?   Meanwhile the there is a poll the MSM has not had any problem reporting on:

The New York Times, in collaboration with Quinnipiac University and CBS News, is tracking the presidential race with recurring polls in six states. In Ohio — which no Republican has won the presidency without — Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney 53 percent to 43 percent in the poll. In Florida, the president leads Mr. Romney 53 to 44 percent in the poll. The surveys, which had margins of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for each candidate, also included a Pennsylvania poll, where Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney by 12 percentage points.

Being a calm and rational type I took the liberty of looking at the internals of this poll and discovered two things that didn’t make sense: In Ohio & Florida Mitt Romney is leading among independents Mitt Romney is getting 91-92% of the republican vote Well that’s odd if you are leading among independents and still drawing 91% plus of your own party it it’s pretty hard to be down 10+ or so in a poll at least it would be if you didn’t look at the samples So you have the media oversampling the Dems to the nth degree and the president campaigning in states that are supposedly safe, with interesting results

The pavilion was not "filled"--a local reporter for Patch.com filmed empty seats in the bleachers at the side of the arena (see above). Nevertheless, the Journal-Sentinal played it safe, putting attendance at roughly 5,000-plus, a small but respectable turnout. That's not how national media covered it. Darren Samuelsohn of Politico reported that the president addressed "a crowd the Obama campaign estimated at 18,000 in a city park overlooking Lake Michigan" in an attempt to "lock up" Wisconsin. Laura Meckler of the Wall Street Journal--whose news section, according to UCLA professor Tim Groseclose, is the most liberal of any major mainstream outlet--repeated the campaign's 18,000 claim without even revealing the source of the official-sounding estimate.

I’m sorry but if you have to use D+9 samples to generate a lead and then have to over report the size of rallies in blue states by a factor of 3 that suggests there is reason for panic in the land of Obama As I’ve said over and over again, look at what people are doing, not what people are saying. I’m typing this paragraph on the ground in front of a podium in Atkinson NH waiting for the GOP candidate for Governor OvideLamontagne& NJ Governor Chris Christie who will be speaking to a crowd that a bit over 200 as of the time I sat down on the blacktop.   You don’t hear a lot about NH in the MSM, I suspect that’s because the news out of the state is not going to be very good for the left One of the people I ran into was Tom Duggan. Tom didn’t like how the MSM and the newspapers were covering the news, so he started a paper of his own. It’s a monthly called the Valley Patriot and he does a lot of the leg work himself. It’s not quite the same as being a blogger but it’s there   Speaking of the NH Race living in Massachusetts I see all the NH commercials as we share a media market including the ads for Democrat Maggie Hassan. Of course I say “Democrat” because I’m able to confirm that online, if you were looking at her ads you would have no idea what party she belongs to or who the current president is. When I see Maggie proudly touting the name Barack Obama THEN tell me how good he is doing in the polls. ---------------------- Have you heard of my subscription only commentaries? For as little as $2 a week you can get premium commentaries not available to the public. Here is the teaser for this week's bit  The full version is here and just the price of a Starbucks coffee away. ---------------------- This week’s Doctor who episode The Power of Three was not only the best of the season so far, but was the best of the run of Matt Smith. One of the best parts of the episode is the use the character of Rory’s father (Played brilliantly by Mark Williams of Arthur Weasley fame). With Amy & Rory leaving next episode I’m thinking it’s a crying shame he wasn’t introduced earlier.   Finally I mentioned Chris Christie’s speech I have the full think linked above but the close is so incredible that it deserves it’s own clip:  http://youtu.be/q1pIoBxAA3A

Remember this image as is leave, everybody feels this same way about this no matter what state you live in. This is about will our children be able to raise their children here where we grew up right? So in New Hampshire for all of you who love this state and helped to build it, what’s going to happen? if we don’t make the change that needs to happen, if we don’t elect Ovide governor and go in that course Then for all those little league games and soccer tournaments, for all those Christmas concerts and spring plays and for all those little birthday parties around the kitchen table that as grandparents you get to go to now because your children are raising their children right here in NH If this is no longer a place where they can get a good paying job If this is no longer a place where they can afford to buy a home, if this is no longer a place where there’s a great education to help them take their children to the next height they’re gonna to leave. They’re gonna to leave where that becomes available And then you are going to become airplane grandparents and you won’t make those little league games not all of them, or those soccer tournaments or those Christmas concerts or spring plays and worse yet you won’t make those little birthday parties around the kitchen table which is where the fabric of our life is woven

If this kind of speech was given in Massachusetts years ago, maybe we wouldn’t have 5 less electoral votes then when I was born and I wouldn't be advising my kids to






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ACLJ Quietly Scrubs Away a Senior Counsel

It appears that the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has quietly removed every reference to their Senior Counsel James M. Henderson, Jr. from their website.

Additionally, Mr. Henderson has been removed from the list of Adjunct Professors at Regent University Law School.

The question is, why? What has caused this legal stalwart of the conservative cause, a brilliant constitutional law specialist who was deeply involved in the Terry Schaivo case, the Bush/Gore recount boondoggle and legal protector for the National Bloggers Club, to have his presence apparently scrubbed from the ACLJ website?

I can’t seem to find a retirement notice, death notice or any of the other type of notice that occurs when a noted legal scholar and practitioner departs such a high-profile law firm.

If Mr. Henderson had merely been hospitalized for a lengthy stay, gone off on a bender, taken a sabbatical or kidnapped by aliens, the ACLJ and Regent University Law School would not have removed any reference to Mr. Henderson.

These actions, coupled with the lack of any public statement about Mr. Henderson from either entity appears to validate the rumors circling (and reported on by Exposed Politics and The Patriot-Ombudsman). If these rumors are true, a public statement by the ACLJ is in order. If they are not, that also is a reason for a public statement by both entities.

At the very least, I would expect to see Mr. Henderson’s bio page at ACLJ restored with an added line like “Mr. Henderson is on sabbatical.”

There are some who will accuse me of being a member of “The Kimberlin/Rauhauser Axis” because I am pointing out a fellow conservative, or at the very least of being a tool, of being directed by someone on the left. 

Pure BS.

No one tells me what to write, who to write about or when to publish my articles.

We MUST question our own lest the opposition assail us for hypocrisy. Open and honest dealings are what we expect from those people and entities that purport to represent our voice and cause. Proper reporting of these events and/or exposing of individuals and entities that do not meet the standards expected of conservatives is an essential part of our cause. Deals behind closed doors, cover-ups and any other dirty dealing is simply not acceptable.

UPDATE (12:40 EDT): After an exhaustive search, I have found numerous mentions of Mr. Henderson being an Adjunct Professor at Regent University School of Law but never a listing for him on the Adjunct Faculty web-page, even using the Way Back Machine! 

Is it possible he has been fraudulently inflating his resume and status all along?

UPDATE II (13:05 EDT): Even deeper digging has revealed that even though I could not find Mr. Henderson on any listing on a web site owned/operated by the University, I did find him on the Chamber of Commerce web site (http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/virginia-beach-va/10150824-regent-university/) and about a third of the way down the page is this entry:

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