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Tweet What made Andrew Breitbart extraordinary was that he understood that the best way to make a point was to show Progressives in the act of being hypocritical.  This is different from what the conservative blogosphere is doing (and doing quite well, I might add), which is to report on hypocrisy when it happens.  This [...]

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Tweet I’m still reading scattered posts castigating Mitt Romney for being a bad candidate or running a bad campaign.  I understand the need to analyze failures to identify remediable errors, but we’re making a huge mistake focusing on the end of the campaign, rather than the beginning.  One could say the beginning of the campaign [...]

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Tweet My sister, who is only vaguely interested in politics, told me the other day that the Dems are lucky, because they’ve got such a deep pool of candidates for 2016 — and then proceeded to name Hillary and Cuomo.  She had no idea who Rubio, Jindal, West, Love, etc., were, and she knows who [...]

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Tweet (Image by Luigi Novi) The Marin County Republican Party, which last year hosted the late, great Andrew Breitbart, was able to entice John Stossel to come visit as part of his book tour for No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed. To no one’s surprise, during his half hour talk (followed by a [...]

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Tweet One of the weaknesses in my abilities as a blogger is that I have very little patience for television, especially the talking heads on MSM television.  To me, they’re all Max Headroom: My philosophy is that life is too short to spend time in Max Headroom’s company. My mistake, though, is in believing that [...]

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Tweet “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Several friends have forwarded a story to me:  Obama may have had a little campaign help back in 2008 from the Russians.  Right now, for the vast majority of Americans, the story is a [...]

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Tweet If you’re a Facebook user, please consider “liking” OneMillionBreitbarts.  Zombie explains why it matters that we’re all Breitbarts now. Also, Bill Whittle makes three points about Andrew’s death.  The first two may or may not resonate with you (there’s been a little mild disagreement), but the third distills Andrew’s message down to its core, [...]

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Tweet The conservative blogosphere is awash (appropriately) in tributes to Andrew Breitbart.  It is impossible to link to every post that touches upon his genius (and he was, in his way, a genius), or upon his family’s loss, or upon the larger loss to the conservative movement.  I’ll confine myself, therefore, to linking to posts [...]

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Tweet I’d like to tell you the story of a great man.  In his youth, he was something of a dilettante.  He attended the right schools, enjoyed life, and didn’t think much beyond the pleasures it could offer him.  And then he found a cause.  A glorious and important cause that would deliver people from [...]

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Tweet I’m beyond stunned.  Andrew Breitbart is . . . was one of the most vital, dynamic people I’ve ever met.  He crackled with energy and enthusiasm.  To learn that he is dead is almost unbelievable, in part because he was so young and in part because he lived with such intensity. When I saw [...]

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Tweet Andrew Breitbart is a dynamo.  He’s also a happy warrior, as you can see during his 16 minute speech at CPAC.  In addition to his promise that he has videos of Obama during those missing college years, Breitbart does something more important — he frames the upcoming election properly.  It’s not about the candidates, [...]

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Tweet One of the things my parents always told me was that there is no one more fired with zealotry than a convert.  Paul of Tarsus is, of course, the perfect example of the truth behind that statement. One doesn’t have to look so far field, though, in time at space.  Just consider the fact [...]

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Tweet I don’t have time to check the video, but as a logical thinker, I can assure you that one of the two highlighted sentences in an AP news report about Andrew Breitbart is a lie: The conservative blogger who reported that a photo of a man’s crotch had been sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s [...]

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Tweet Last night, after Andrew Breitbart had already left to catch his plane, a few of us hung around to chat and to try to answer one question:  what was the takeaway from Breitbart’s talk?  Eat their eyeballs?  Women’s dominance in the Tea Party means that men are eunuchs?  The fact that the Tea Party [...]

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Tweet The other day, Mr. Bookworm asked me to tell him “what the right wing wackos were talking about.”  Among other things, I mentioned that people were interested in the fact that Hillary had recently announced that she would not return as Secretary of State for Obama’s second term, leading to speculation that she was [...]

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Tweet One of the things I love about Andrew Breitbart is that he’s willing to challenge the bluffs and cons emanating from the Left.  While the Republican establishment was apologizing for the alleged claim that Tea Partiers hurled the “n-word,” Breitbart figured out that the absence of footage was significant — especially since the Black [...]

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Tweet I think Andrew Brietbart is an incredibly important figure in today’s conservative movement.  More than anyone else, he’s shown that he understands how to take conservative ideas and hurl them over the fence that the MSM keeps trying to throw up to insulate regular people from those views.  I’ve now discovered, however, that there [...]

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