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  • Faux Tea Party Groups Enrich Vendors, Waste Donor Dollars

    08/31/2016 7:26:57 AM PDT · by Sideshow Bob · 13 replies
    Media Trackers ^ | August 29, 2016 | Brian Sikma
    When Dan Backer sets up a conservative group, rest assured that high priced vendors and consultants are about to make a boatload of money off of unsuspecting donors. Far from being a true believer intent on building up conservative ideas and conservative candidates, Backer uses a vast array of allegedly conservative organizations to beg money from donors and then use the majority of those funds to line the pockets of well connected insiders. Operating out of his firm’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, Backer has established himself as the king of the “scam PAC,” a type of political group that promises...
  • #NeverTrump Digs In

    04/25/2016 6:47:41 AM PDT · by Sideshow Bob · 114 replies
    RightWisconsin.com ^ | April 25, 2016 | Charlie Sykes
    In the wake of the New York primary, there is a sense that some of the GOP elites are making their peace with the Trumpocalypse. To be sure, some of the party’s leaders are resisting Trump’s faux charm offensive, but there is also a palpable mood of defeatism among the Invertebrate. Yet in hallway chatter here, there was a growing sense of resignation about Trump as the nominee That mood is likely to spread after this week’s expected primary wins for Trump in the northeast. Some party leaders aren’t waiting. Reince Priebus is calling on anti-Trump activists to unite behind...
  • Gov. Scott Walker expected to announce plan for support of new Milwaukee Bucks arena

    01/27/2015 8:20:29 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 33 replies
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | January 27, 2015 | Don Walker
    Gov. Scott Walker is expected to announce Tuesday morning that he plans to put into the state budget a financing plan that includes bonding to help build a multipurpose arena in downtown Milwaukee. A source familiar with Walker's plan said the governor's plan relies on the diversion of income taxes paid by visiting National Basketball Association athletes as well as Milwaukee Bucks players to pay the debt service on the bonding.....
  • Report: Scott Walker to Include Jock Tax in Budget

    01/26/2015 8:07:08 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 46 replies
    RightWisconsin.com ^ | January 23, 2015 | RightWisconsin.com
    The Milwaukee Business Journal is reporting that Gov. Scott Walker will include a jock tax in the next budget to help fund a new Milwaukee arena project for the Milwaukee Bucks. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is preparing to propose diverting revenue from taxes on NBA players for public funding of a new arena in downtown Milwaukee, sources close to the situation told the Milwaukee Business Journal. In June 2014 Walker said in an interview with the Milwaukee Business Journal that he was studying the possibility of tapping NBA players' income tax for arena construction funding, a so-called "jock tax." Since...
  • Glenn Grothman a Sellout? Give Me A Break

    01/07/2015 7:49:35 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 70 replies
    Right Wisconsin ^ | January 6, 2015 | Collin Roth
    Welcome to Washington, Congressman Grothman. Glenn Grothman's very first vote as a member of Congress, a vote in favor of John Boehner for Speaker, earned the ire of RedState.com Editor in Chief Erick Erickson who declared Grothman "all talk." "There will be no standing up by Glenn Grothman. Elections have a way of voluntarily and willingly neutering congressmen." Critics of Grothman are pointing to Grothman's willingness during the summer primary to criticize Boehner's leadership in the House and suggest that he would vote against the sitting Speaker in 2015. “I would have no problem looking for an alternative to Speaker...
  • Vanity: NRO Changes Posting Policy to Hide Negative Reactions to Establishment Columnists & Posters

    02/21/2014 9:08:20 PM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 150 replies
    Disqus ^ | February 21, 2014 | Sideshow Bob
    Well, the elitist establishment (dare I say RINO) editors over at National Review and National Review Online (NRO) have sunk to another new low in their continued attacks on conservatives. It's been bad enough that the NRO stable of writers have been cranking out multiple hit pieces (including 3 in a row from the normally lucid Dr. Thomas Sowell) attacking Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the House/Senate Tea Party caucus, but NRO is now moving towards silencing conservative criticism of NRO's writers, columns and seminar RINO and libertarian posters. Don't get me wrong, I like posting and/or commenting on NRO...
  • Gingrich vs. Santorum (NRO slimes Gingrich with use of shadowy, sneering photo)

    02/03/2012 10:16:26 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 38 replies
    National Review website ^ | February 3, 2012 | Robert Costa
    Conservative opponents of Mitt Romney are nervous. If Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich continue to battle for the primary’s non-Romney, non-libertarian slot, the former Massachusetts governor could coast toward the GOP convention as the indubitable front-runner....
  • Never Mind the Slider or Sinking Fastball, The F-Word is Carp’s Best Friend

    10/27/2011 12:27:49 PM PDT · by Sideshow Bob · 19 replies
    National Review Online ^ | October 25, 2011 | Jason Epstein
    From the sixth inning of last night’s game, Mike Napoli hit a Chris Carpenter offering some 400 feet to center field for a long out to end a Rangers threat. In response, Carp let the obscenities fly. Grantland’s Jonah Keri comments: Carpenter may have been yelling at Napoli. As he described the tail end of the digestion process, he looked Napoli’s way. On the other hand, Ken Rosenthal claimed Carpenter was merely screaming at himself, as evidenced by his tirade continuing into the dugout, with more curse words and a chucked glove. Either way, broadcast gold. Though not as good...
  • State of the Conservatives - We're All Clintonites Now [November 22, 1999]

    01/30/2008 1:17:45 PM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 16 replies · 38+ views
    National Review ^ | November 22, 1999 | Ramesh Ponnuru
    Does the conservative movement need to take some lithium? As the Washington Post's Thomas B. Edsall recently observed, over the last five years its mood has swung from giddy optimism to despair and back again. The arc can be traced in the pronouncements of individual conservatives. Less than a year ago, Bill Bennett was despairing of the American public's moral insipidity, as evidenced by its conspicuous lack of outrage at Bill Clinton's misconduct. Now he blesses George W. Bush's efforts to put a smiley face on the Republican party. Some of the same conservatives who were broaching the subject of...
  • The Death of Conservatism? - 43 Mistakes and the GOP's Dobson's Choice

    01/29/2008 11:55:19 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 486 replies · 2,082+ views
    Sideshow Bob | January 29, 2008 | Sideshow Bob
    There have been more than a few recent articles and editorials attempting to affix blame for the demise of the Republican Party. Peggy Noonan blames President Bush. Rush Limbaugh believes a McCain nomination will kill the party. However, even in a worse case scenario, the Republican Party will probably stagger along for several years much like the last decade of the Whigs. Conservative Republicans should probably be more concerned about the impending demise of the conservative movement within the party. Some individuals can be blamed more than others, but this folly has many fathers. The latest blow to conservatives has...
  • Out with the New, In with the Old

    12/07/2004 11:34:08 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 35 replies · 857+ views
    espn.com ^ | Monday, December 6, 2004 | Pat Forde
    Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the BCS. Once again, it built a better mousetrap and wound up slamming the thing down on its own neck. Auburn, your reward for a 12-0 season is to become the first undefeated SEC team since the invention of this bowl gerrymandering system not to play for the national title. Who knew that beating Tennessee twice, LSU and Georgia would matter so little? Jeff Tedford and Cal are on the outside looking in at the BCS bowls. California, your reward for going 10-1 and pushing No. 1 USC to within nine yards of...
  • Play FREE Fantasy Baseball on Yahoo with other FReepers

    02/19/2004 7:40:52 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 39 replies · 3,069+ views
    Yahoo ^ | February 19, 2004 | Yahoo and Sideshow Bob
    Take the field with other FReepers & Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball, a free game that gives you the chance to manage your own team of professional baseball players from opening day right through the late season pennant races. Your goal is to get the best lineup on the field every day, since the better your players perform in real-life games, the more value they bring to your fantasy team. 2004 marks the fifth season of Freeper Fantasy Baseball and the fourth year of 5x5 weekly head-to-head competition. Each week your team will square off in a matchup against another manager...
  • Play Free Fantasy Football with Other FReepers!!

    08/20/2003 6:47:47 PM PDT · by Sideshow Bob · 27 replies · 2,555+ views
    Sideshow Bob & Yahoo ^ | August 20, 2003 | Sideshow Bob
    Take the field with other FReepers & Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football, a free game that gives you the chance to coach your own team of professional football players from opening weekend right through the late season playoff stretch. Your goal is to get the best lineup on the field every week, since the better your players perform in real-life games, the more value they bring to your fantasy team. 2003 marks the fourth season of FReeper Fantasy Football. Each week your team will square off in a matchup against another team to see whose players can score the most points...
  • Play FREE Fantasy Baseball on Yahoo with other FReepers

    02/20/2003 10:36:20 PM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 33 replies · 1,984+ views
    Yahoo ^ | February 21, 2003 | Sideshow Bob
    Take the field with other FReepers & Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball, a free game that gives you the chance to manage your own team of professional baseball players from opening day right through the late season pennant races. Your goal is to get the best lineup on the field every day, since the better your players perform in real-life games, the more value they bring to your fantasy team. 2003 marks the fourth season of Freeper Fantasy Baseball and the third year of 5x5 weekly head-to-head competition. Each week your team will square off in a matchup against another manager...
  • BCS Committee to Address Playoff Option

    01/03/2003 2:05:12 PM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 5 replies · 353+ views
    espn.com ^ | January 3, 2003 | Associated Press
    PHOENIX - The Bowl Championship Series will form a committee to discuss changes that eventually could lead to a college football playoff. One president from each of six conferences -- the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern -- will be picked for the committee this month. They are expected to make a recommendation in 2005. "There are four options. We can go back to the old system, we can stay where we are, we can tweak it, or we can go to a playoff," BCS coordinator Mike Tranghese said Friday. "We're going to spend some...
  • Greased Skids

    12/16/2002 9:14:17 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 7 replies · 119+ views
    National Review Online ^ | December 16, 2002 | David Frum
    Greased Skids With Don Nickle’s call for a new election for Senate Majority Leader, Lott’s fate at last became inescapable. There will be a new election – and Lott will lose. In a last desperate maneuver, Lott is reported this weekend to have asked the White House for an endorsement from Colin Powell. Good luck! Colin Powell only barely brought himself to endorse George W. Bush in 2000, and Bush was offering him Secretary of State. Instead of getting something from the White House, Lott had to give – a guarantee that he would stay in the Senate even if...
  • Vacant Lott: The GOP and the Ghosts of Mississippi

    12/10/2002 8:15:00 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 38 replies · 249+ views
    National Review Online ^ | 12-10-02 | Robert A. George
    Can George W. Bush and the Republican party really afford to have Trent Lott (R., Miss.) be its face in the United States Senate? The question has to be pondered as the wannabe Majority Leader tries to dig himself out of his latest mess. As everyone knows by now, in a Thursday testimonial to the retiring Senate legend, Lott said, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these...
  • The Northernmost Banana Republic

    11/04/2002 9:32:02 AM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 12 replies · 4+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | 11/03/2002 | Stephen F. Hayes
    The Northernmost Banana RepublicYou won't believe how low Wisconsin Democrats have stooped. Or maybe you will. by Stephen F. Hayes 11/03/2002 12:00:00 AM "IT LOOKED LIKE A FOREIGN COUNTRY, like one of these fledgling democracies." That's how Milwaukee voter Jack Zimmerman described the chaos of the 2000 presidential election in Wisconsin. Zimmerman, a Republican, said that he spent Election Day listening to so many stories of vote fraud at polling stations near Marquette University that by the end of the day he decided to check things out for himself. "I'm seeing a guy, a preppy, college-aged kid, high-tailing it out...
  • Play Free Fantasy Football with Other FReepers!!

    08/14/2002 11:38:57 PM PDT · by Sideshow Bob · 29 replies · 436+ views
    Sideshow Bob & Yahoo ^ | August 14, 2002 | Sideshow Bob
    Take the field with other FReepers & Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football, a free game that gives you the chance to coach your own team of professional football players from opening weekend right through the late season playoff stretch. Your goal is to get the best lineup on the field every week, since the better your players perform in real-life games, the more value they bring to your fantasy team. 2002 marks the third season of FReeper Fantasy Football. Each week your team will square off in a matchup against another team to see whose players can score the most points...
  • Play free fantasy baseball with other FReepers!

    02/22/2002 8:57:41 PM PST · by Sideshow Bob · 80 replies · 604+ views
    Sideshow Bob and Yahoo.com ^ | February 23, 2002 | Sideshow Bob
    Play free fantasy baseball with other FReepers! Take the field with other FReepers & Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball, a free game that gives you the chance to manage your own team of professional baseball players from opening day right through the late season pennant races. Your goal is to get the best lineup on the field every day, since the better your players perform in real-life games, the more value they bring to your fantasy team. 2002 marks the third season of Freeper Fantasy Baseball. Last year, we switched from a traditional 5x5 roto league to 5x5 weekly head-to-head competition. ...