See "Pro-Life Coalition Questions 2nd CCHD Official’s Ties with Pro-Abort Group."

Either a paleo-conservative or a paleo-libertarian, Jack Hunter is part of a growing group of conservatives who descry the hypocrisies of the official left and the official right and declares a plague on both their houses.

Jeff Miller, a self-styled computer geek, just completed a change of the underlying blogging platform for his site, as well as changing his web hosting company. As he points out in his announcement post, "Blog Move," the job requires dealing with significant technical headaches.

The Heritage Foundation's 2010 Index of Economic Freedom is an enlightening look into the factors that make for a healthy relationship between government and the private sector. The 100 point scale averages 10 factors:

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The constitutionalists' version of the pro-lifers' Manhattan Declaration (which is quickly approaching a half a million signatures), the Mount Vernon Statement tries to articulate a set of conservative principles that are based upon, if only loosely, the principles that undergird our Constitution.

Governor Sarah Palin's address at the Tea Party convention included the truly memorable question: "How's that hopey-changey stuff working out for you?" (See "Sarah Palin: Keynote Speech At The Inaugural Tea Party Convention (Transcript)." It inspired a set of bumper stickers, e.g., the rightwingswag.com version. (See also the zazzle.com collection.) Even the transcript doesn't quite capture the tone of the delivery, which we can approximate better with "How's that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya?" You can almost see the smirk and hear the gum popping. (O.k., so she wasn't chewing gum at the time, but you get the picture.)

Jim Croce gathered it all up in 1972 with the hit single, "You don't mess around with Jim." As of yesterday, we can add "You don't mess around with Granny," as the surveillance video clip demonstrates. See "Granny Packs a Punch."

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Senator Evan Bayh complained about "brain dead partisanship" and "strident ideology," two expressions for the same phenomenon. See "Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh: 'Too Much Brain-Dead Partisanship' in Congress." Sounds like he's doubly ticked.