It’s the Weekend

And here is The News (in the form of linkagery on Friday) to keep you up to date

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Team Ninja, Twitchy. InstaPundit, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news.

And in case you missed it, here is the news from Thursday and Wednesday

It seems like we are getting a lesson in “Obama Foreign Policy 101: Sympathize With Commies”

Well, it seems like Sarah Palin was right about Russia and Ukraine after all

And in other news, Brett Kimberlin is a loser

Kimberlin went up against Ace of Spades’ lawyer as well and properly got bitchslapped

Robert Stacy McCain read a feminist memoir entitled In Our Time (which is about the feminist fringe) so we do not have to, and for that I thank him.

Speaking of Ace of Spades, he spanked Dave Weigel for his defense of Alex Sink (who ran for Governor of Florida in 2010 and lost to Rick Scott so she is now running for the 13th Congressional District seat to replace the late C.W. [Bill] Young)

Smitty wrote a good article on the clusterfuck that is the U.S. Senate under Harry Reid

I channel my inner Archie bunker when arguing with moonbats that are mentioned in Robert Stacy McCain’s article

It seems that Katy Perry still has a crush on Russell Brand or something

Eric Holder had been hospitalized for what, as comedian Jim Labriola (who played Benny Barone on “Home Improvement” With Tim Allen) says, “looks like a heart attack”

It seems that Planned Parenthood is going down the kinky road by promoting the BDSM lifestyle for teenagers

The Other McCain has a couple of articles on Duke Student Belle Knox. Among them:

• Special Snowflake™ @Belle_Knox and Make-Believe Feminist ‘Empowerment’
• If Porn Is Not Shameful, Why Doesn’t Miriam Weeks Use Her Real Name?

It seems that Virginia’s favorite singer is Dave Matthews

Alec Baldwin is blaming everybody but himself for his personal failures.

In addition to The Other McCain, there is other news elsewhere in the blogosphere

f/t to Diane Sori for her Op-ed from yesterday entitled Another cyber attack...and this time it was personal

Here is Diane’s article on the debut of her new radio show on Wednesday

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his usual Are you Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day, as well as his Quote of the day and his prevarication du jour

Mr. Hoge also has a couple of interesting episodes on his blog as well. Among them are Episode 2 of Blognet

f/t to Aaron Walker of Allergic to Bull for his article entitled BREAKING: Judge Titus’ Memorandum Opinion in Convicted Perjurer and Document Forger Brett Kimberlin’s Silly Copyright Case

f/t to Ace of Spades for having a couple of Open Threads on the Ace of Spades Blog. You can find them at the following:

• Late Morning Open Thread: Government Troll Edition [Y-not]
• Saturday Morning Open Thread

You heard it on Lowering the Boom first, then here. The Kentucky Derby is sticking with NBC until at least 2025

f/t to Taylor Millard over on Goldwater Gal for his article entitled  James O’Keefe, TX Republicans Ask If Battleground Texas Is Breaking Election Laws

2 years ago today, Andrew Breitbart had died, and I had posted my own memoriam of him in a couple of places:

• ANDREW BREITBART: A MAN WHO WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON on Citizen Journalist News (If you check this link out, please rate the article)
• ANDREW BREITBART: A MAN WHO WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON on Rick Bulow, New Media

In honor of Andrew Breitbart, I will be dedicating tomorrow’s episode of the #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio to his memory. One of the things that Andrew liked to do on Twitter was post song titles or YouTube links, and I will be playing songs that he liked or would like. This is tomorrow at 4 PM Eastern.

And that is all the news that is news today. If you like what you read, feel free to hit the tip jar as all proceeds from there will go to maintenance of the website and blog as well as trips to conventions or conferences. And do not forget to follow me on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) for more news as well as songs from the #WaveCave

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It’s a Tumultuous Tuesday

And here is The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Twitchy, Wayne Dupree, InstaPundit, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news.

And in case you missed it, here is the news from Monday

One thing about people who always want quotas is that they are never satisfied

Piers Morgan is ending his show on CNN, and gets a parting shot across the bow from Dave Weigel of Slate

Robert Stacy McCain always asks the burning questions, and this is no different: Why do lesbians love "slut walk"?

I like Kirsten Powers, but it seems that she is all about the idolatry of equality

While Ukraine burns, another scandal threatens to blow it apart as Ukraine bought bloggers cheap

Speaking of Ukraine burning, it looks like freedom has emerged victorious

The GOP establishment is playing the role of #ConcernTroll over a candidate who is battling Pat Roberts in the Kansas Primary for U.S. Senator

If Vitali Klitschko and Vladimir Putin meet in the presidential ring, I would wager on Vitali for a landslide victory.

And Cabin Boy Bill “The Walrus” Schmalfeldt opened his mouth spouting more lies and tripe

And it is not looking good for Brett Kimberlin, either

The LGBT community wants to make people’s lives a living hell

Smitty brings about a good point. A river of lies cannot flow uphill

The GOP is as lukewarm as the Laodicean Church in Revelation 3:14-23

Another episode of The World’s Youngest Blogger: Wondering if Obama is a reference to Dilbert's colleague

The Worker Unions are losing in Tennessee, and it means wonderful news for right to work states

Katie McDonough of Salon says that we are victims of heteronormative patriarchy

The Republican Party is staring victory in the face, but might snatch defeat from the jaws of victory come November

f/t to Wombat Socho for his FMJRA and Rule 5 posts of the week.

In addition to The Other McCain, there is more news across the blogosphere.

f/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-ed entitled Cuts to our military and Susan Rice's arrogance have me actually seething

Diane is also teaming with Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for a talk show entitled Right Side Patriots which debuts tomorrow from 2 – 4 PM Eastern on CPR Worldwide Media. Here is her Op-ed on it from yesterday

f/t to Craig for his own article about Right Side Patriots

f/t to Becca Lower of Lowering the Boom for her Weekly Arts Roundup

f/t to Aaron Walker of Allergic to Bull for the latest on Brett Kimberlin. This time, Kimberlin is going after Michelle Malkin and Twitchy for "defaming" him

f/t to Dan Riehl of Riehl World News for his article on Mark Levin receiving the ‘Andrew Breitbart Defender of the 1st Amendment Award’ at CPAC  this year

f/t to Sister Toldjah of the Sister Toldjah blog for her article entitled Senator Rubio makes a fool out Senator Harkin over Cuba

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day, as well as his Quote of the Day and the Prevarication du Jour

Mr. Hoge also has a good article on Brett Kimberlin and Vitamin A deficiency

f/t to Jeff Dunetz of Yid With Lid for his article entitled 33,000 Jobs Lost Because of Obamacare Device Tax- Secretary Sebelius Are You Listening?

In case you missed the #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio Sunday, here is my playlist from that show. Don’t forget to tune in this Sunday at 4 PM Eastern for music, news, and more.

And that is all the news for today. Follow me on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) for more news and other interesting tidbits throughout the day. And if you like what you read, please help out a fellow capitalist and hit the tip jar.

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82nd Rant: The REAL problem with the Second Amendment

Many people have a problem with the Second Amendment to the Constitution which reads as follows:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Many take that to mean that ONLY the military and police officers should have guns, but that is far from the truth. The reason for a militia is to protect the citizenship from the government. And the militia is not the military or the police officers. Rather, it is normal citizens. After all, when the British tried to take the weapons from the Patriots in 1773 the Patriots fought back and then on July 2, 1776, declared themselves free and independent from Britain.

The gun control battle came up with Fast & Furious under the Obama Administration (which Katie Pavlich wrote about in depth in her wonderful book Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up) and also with Operation Wide Receiver under the George W. Bush Administration (of which they are both TOTALLY different in that one did not lead into the other) then came full bore with the shooting in Tucson (Arizona) in 2011 where Former Congresswoman Gabriella Giffords (Democrat from Arizona’s 8^th District) was shot. Then came Aurora (Colorado) and Newtown (Connecticut) in 2012, where mentally ill people decided to pick up a gun and just commit unspeakable horrors. After the Newtown tragedy, many politicians (all on the Democrat side) called for stricter gun laws and gun control. I am against it for the simple reason that if you look at history, the dictators of the world (Hitler in Germany, Stalin in Russia, Mao in China, and Pol Pot in Cambodia) had first come to power with talk of gun control. Then when only the military and police had guns, the dictators decided to unleash holy hell on their respective countries. Many try to make reasonable arguments for no gun control and support for the second Amendment, but one such comment only took 30 seconds, and said so much more than many of the politicians and pro-Second Amendment supporters could in 30 hours. Take a listen to my good friend Kira Davis:

 

Kira Davis (@KiraAynDavis) and the Second Amendment

Kira is a GREAT American (f/t to Sean Hannity for that phrase) and a wonderful Conservative woman who I am proud to call friend. She says many things in 30 seconds (as the above video) or in 5 minutes than any politician or pundit can speak in 5 hours. Definitely give her a follow (she is @KiraAynDavis on Twitter) and also subscribe to her YouTube Channel for more wisdom.

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It’s a Manic Monday

And here is The News to keep you up to date.

Also, check out the Layfield Report, InstaPundit, Twitchy, Team Ninja Network, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news

There were 11 killed on American roads in 2 separate crashes (one in California and another in Florida) this weekend due to motorists driving against the traffic

Time for Round One of Laura Ingraham v. George Will on Fox News Sunday

It seems that Robert Stacy McCain is not yet done beating Jesse Myerson down. Now he is going after Myerson for what was written on Sarah Palin after the Tucson shooting in 2011

f/t to Mick Baker for giving us a dose of sanity in the winter months, even if Smitty denounces him for it.

As if ObamaCare is not bad enough, there are still more dangers associated with it

And yet we have another teacher suffering from Mary Kay Letourneau syndrome. This time a 24 year-old high school math teacher from Tacoma, Washington

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news form elsewhere in the blogosphere.

f/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed entitled Iranian warships close at hand and Obama does and says nothing

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his usual Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day, as well as his Quote of the day

f/t to Bob Belvedere of The Camp of the Saints for also beating Jesse Myerson about the head and shoulders

And Bob also gives us a little bit of Rule 5 eyecandy hotness in the form of one Valentina Nappi.

f/t to Dan Riehl of Riehl World View for his take on the 24 year-old high school math teacher from Tacoma suffering from Mary Kay Letourneau syndrome

And in case you had forgotten, Aaron Worthing of Allergic to Bull reminds us that Brett Kimberlin still wants to shut us up

I had a little bit of a hiccup toward the end of the #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio yesterday, as my cable cut out on me 8 – 10 songs form the end, but here is all that I DID manage to play prior to the cable outage. I am hoping to be on the air next Sunday at 4 PM Eastern for more tunes, so feel free to tune in or keep an eye to the #WaveCave hashtag for more tunes.

And that is all the news that is news for today.  For more news and other snark or feedback, feel free to follow me on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) throughout the day. And if you like what you read, feel free to help out a capitalist and hit the tip jar. All funds will go toward upgrading the site and also go toward funding for trips to conferences and the like.

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It’s the Weekend

And here’s The News (in the form of Linkagery) to keep you up to date.

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Twitchy, InstaPundit, Wayne Dupree, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news.

And in case you missed it, here is news for Thursday (Linkagery), Wednesday, and Tuesday.

Jesse Myerson has earned the wrath of The Other McCain in a couple of articles. Among them:

• The Renegade Jesse Myerson
• Teach Your Children Well
• How Much Do You Hate Commies?

Meanwhile, Wombat Socho is giving us some good reading material to use in the cultural war

I had a doctor’s appointment Tuesday, but I do not think I recall answering the Obamacare compulsory race question

Wombat Socho also goes out of his way to give us a list of good hamburger places

In other news, Brett Kimberlin is claiming to be a legend and he is – only in his own mind

The Girl Scouts are now collaborating with Planned Parenthood, an organization notorious for supporting the right to abortion

Time Inc., publisher of Sports Illustrated, Time, and People magazines, has laid off nearly 500 people, including executives

Speaking of Kimberlin, ‘The Court Should Dismiss … With Prejudice in Favor of All Defendants’ in his case against Robert Stacy McCain, W.J.J. Hoge, and others

Ever since Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC had said that the children belong to the community, the question has been raised often. Whose Children Are They?

The CBO report on ObamaCare is out, and here are the facts about the brutal economics of it

CPAC 2014 is just around the corner, and the ultimate blogger award, #BlogBash, is accepting nominations for the yearly awards show honoring the best in the blogosphere

The Other McCain asks another hard-hitting question: Could Jamie Casino Find ‘A Smidgen’ Of Corruption At The IRS?

A teacher who is suffering from the Mary Kay Letourneau syndrome is now facing life in prison for molesting two girls

Philip Seymour Hoffman died Sunday morning, and was mentioned in the following:

• Hoffman Planned Heroin Binge?
• The Needle and the Spoon

And in other news, the Obama Administration is continuing to use the IRS to stonewall conservatives and Obama is asking “What IRS Scandal?”

And in other Kimberlin news, it seems that  "Cabin Boy" Bill "The Walrus" Schmalfeldt is still maintaining some sort of insane investment in the case for some unknown reason

The real losers of the Super Bowl this past Sunday? The hard working taxpayers of Illinois

Obama is continuing to spout things that should not be necessary

Sunday was a prime case in what NOT to do as President as Obama just gave a ten minute lesson in #Shutuppery in his interview with Bill O'Reilly

Amanda Bynes was a popular Nickelodeon star who had fallen by the wayside. Has she returned to sanity? Only time will tell

What do Woody Allen and Roman Polanski have in common? They are both geniuses in France

I am originally from the south suburbs of Chicago, and thought I had seen and heard everything. However, this little beaut from Orland Park (which is about 159^th street or so) which was exposed first by Megan Fox of PJ Media really takes the cake

Gun control freaks tried to stop Dana Loesch from appearing on The View this past Monday, but many of her supporters would have none of it, and used the hashtag #IStandWithDana to voice their support.

Robert Stacy McCain’s brother was trapped in the weather shutdown of Atlanta, and Stacy decided to turn it into a humorous, snarky situation as only he can do

And in other news, some people on Twitter can be real twatwaffles. Case in point, the #FreeBleeding phenomenon which turned out to be a hoax. (f/t Kim Jossfolk of Just a Conservative Girl blog)

f/t to Wombat Socho for his FMJRA and Rule 5 posts of the week

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news from elsewhere in the blogosphere.

f/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed entitled Enforce the law...NO need to change the law

Diane also exposes the connection between Benghazi and the race card

Craig Andresen of The National Patriot has no Friday Fume for the week, but he does have a good article on why we should build the Keystone XL Pipeline

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his usual Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering? and Team Kimberlin posts of the day, as well as the Quote of the day

Mr. Hoge also entertains us with a new Blogsmoke episode. Today it is Episode 20

Mr. Hoge also gives us another entertaining show in the weekly adventures of Johnny Atsign. February 3^rd brought us Episode 8

Jay Leno signed off from The Tonight Show for the last time Thursday, and many had posted about it. Among them:

• Tonight Show’s Jay Leno’s final Monologue – Larry Lease from Eye on the Nation
• Video: Jay Leno’s last Tonight Show – The Americanist
• Jay Leno Gives Tearful Final Farewell – Jackie Wellfonder of Raging Against the Rhetoric

Larry also wrote a very interesting article entitled GOP Needs a New Playbook

f/t and congratulations to Sarah Rumpf of Sunshine State Sarah for her one year anniversary of moving to Texas

I was not on the air with the #WaveCave last Sunday on Eclipse Radio due to me live blogging the Snoozefest known as Super Bowl XLVIII. However, I am planning on being on the air tomorrow at 4 PM Eastern spinning my usual eclectic mix of music. I will definitely tweet out my playlist and (now with the addition of RickBulow.com) could also live blog my show as well.

And that is all the news that is news for today. Follow me on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) for more news and music this weekend. And if you like wht you read, please feel free to help out a capitalist and hit the tip jar.

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It’s the Weekend

And here is The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out The Layfield Report, InstaPundit, Twitchy, Wayne Dupree, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news.

Brett Kimberlin is still creating problems in the blogosphere. Among the articles highlighting the problems:

• Exhibit B: Among ‘Scores of Death Threats’ Alleged by Brett Kimberlin …
• Brett Kimberlin Lies Again

There is a clarion call from The Other McCain to have Chris Cassone play at CPAC 2014

It turns out the Sandy Hook school shooter was also a gay pedophile

f/t to Mark Steyn for giving a thin-skinned bully, notorious “scientist” Michael Mann, a royal beatdown

The “Mary Kay Letourneau syndrome” takes a bowling shoe ugly turn

Major f/t to Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas for exposing the mainstream media as Obama's "Palace Guard"

Environmentalist Wackos (f/t Rush Limbaugh) are flocking to the aid of an anti-fracking scientist who says “Fuck the children. Save the planet!”

One of the major takeaways from Obama’s State of the Union speech is that he is endorsing feminist dogma

Smitty has a perfect response to the State of the Union from a veteran, who only had one word for it 

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news from others in the blogosphere

f/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed of yesterday entitled Except for one...shameful cowards all

Diane also has a good take on Obama’s State of the Union in her op-ed of Thursday entitled The State of the (Dis)Union Speech

f/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his usual Friday Fume

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his usual Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering, Team Kimberlin, and Quote of the Day

Mr. Hoge also thanks people for the links from other blogs to his site

f/t to Larry Lease of Eye on the Nation for his article regarding the conviction of Amanda Knox (aka “Foxy Knoxy”) and whether the United States should extradite her or not

Larry also has the news on the United States Government seeking the death penalty on the Boston Marathon Bomber

f/t to Bob Belvedere of The Camp of the Saints for his article entitled Collaboration In Wartime: The GOP As Modern Quislings

Bob also has a translation of the official GOP response to the State of the Union Address

Doug Ross over at Director Blue has a few wonderful linkagery with  today’s version of Larwyn’s Lynx

f/t to Michael Zak of The Grand Old Partisan for his article entitled Vice President George Edmunds

f/t to Felicia Cravens over at Free Radical Network for her article entitled The Hard Right

The project that I had in mind is slowly coming into play, and as George “Hannibal” Smith of the hit 1980’s TV show always says at the end of an episode, “I love it when a plan comes together.” The plan in this case being my own website and domain name. The address is http://www.rickbulow.com and the blog (entitled “Rick’s Crazed World” because it will be a hodgepodge of different categories and items from my crazed mind) is at http://www.rickbulow.com/blog. Also, I will be having a message board at http://www.rickbulow.com/MessageBoard/index.php for anyone to leave me messages and where I will also have a few educational items. The blog will be open tomorrow just in time for me to live blog the Super Bowl between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaking of the Super Bowl, my pick for the Super Bowl is that the Broncos win 49-21 with either Peyton Manning, Wes Welker, or Eric Decker getting the MVP. What you will see most during the Super Bowl is The Sherman Tank (aka Seattle Cornerback Richard Sherman) getting Deckered by the Manning Bomb.

And that is all the news that is news for today. Not only will I be live blogging the Super Bowl tomorrow, but I will also be live tweeting it as well as there will be no #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio tomorrow for now. Stay tuned to my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) for more information. And if you like what you read, please help out a capitalist and hit the tip jar.

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It’s a Wild Wednesday

And here’s The News to keep you up to date

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Twitchy, Wayne Dupree, InstaPundit, Drudge, and Breitbart for more news.

In case you missed it, here is the news from yesterday and Monday (in the form of linkagery)

Killing babies is never a good thing, but apparently some guy named Tom Kludt thinks it is

How bad is disgraced journalist Stephen Glass? Apparently he is so bad that California declared him morally unfit to practice law there

And the sordid saga of a dead Senate aide who committed suicide continues

And the #BrettKimberlin saga continues with him experiencing more delusions of grandeur

If you want a real #WarOnWomen, look no further than what Obama endorsed in his State of the Union last night

There are times in which even someone on the Right who is despised by mane gets it correct on a controversial topic. Erick Erickson is one who did on the issue of Wendy Davis

It is bad enough when teachers molest students. It is even worse when other teachers do not investigate their own

It is also bad enough when parents abuse their children. It is even worse when parents sell their children for sex

There was another shooting. This time in a mall just outside of Baltimore, Maryland. Was the shooter a Tea Party Extremist as Democrats claim? Actually, no. He was a teen skateboarder

Alicia Gray, the teacher who decided to give a student a little “extra credit” then admitted in a video that it was wrong, had attracted the attention of a Liberty University Law Professor who said her responses clearly demonstrate that most child sexual offenders are extremely self-serving and dangerously manipulative

Robert Stacy McCain successfully gave one person who said the American Dream is dead in the south a severe cyber beatdown

According to liberals and feminists, Wendy Davis might be dishonest about her personal narrative, but it still matters

And in other news, Sarah Silverman is a disgusting liberal footstool

Paul Waldman is carrying the liberal banner of “Vote Democrat, you sluts!”

Smitty was a guest on Da Tech Guy’s radio show this past Saturday.In case you missed it, Smitty has a short version of the highlights

f/t to Wombat Socho for his FMJRA and Rule 5 posts of the week

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news from elsewhere in the blogosphere.

f/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed for today entitled Hillary now regrets Benghazi...we've always regretted Hillary

f/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his article entitled Obama’s SOTU – Doin’ the American Hustle!!!

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his usual Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering, Team Kimberlin and Quote of the Day, as well as his Prevarication du Jour

Mr. Hoge also gives us a lesson on perjury

f/t to Larry Lease of Eye on the Nation for asking the question Can California Governor Jerry Brown stop Hillary Clinton?

f/t to Liz Harrison (the Goldwater Gal) for her article responding to those who complain about James O'Keefe editing on Battleground Texas

f/t to Donald Douglas of American Power Blog for posting the Tea Party response to the State of the Union by Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah

Donald also gives us a little Rule 5 love in the form of SI Swimsuit model Cintia Decker

f/t to Pete Ingemi (aka Da Tech Guy) for his article entitled What’s Growing in Your Garden?

Pete also gives us a little insight into how the media works in one image

f/t to Joe Brenneman of JBrenn’s Blog for his article Obama’s 2014 SOTU: “A Year Of Action”

Just in case you missed the #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio this past Sunday, here is my playlist. I will not be on the air this Sunday due to Super Bowl Sunday (Go Broncos. I will give the final score prediction in my Weekend blog on Saturday) but keep looking at my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) as you just never know when I will be on the air tweeting my songs under the #WaveCave hashtag

And that is all the news that is news for today. Something major is going to happen to my blogs over the next day or two so stay tuned to my Twitter and Facebook for more information. And if you like what you read, feel free to help a capitalist and hit the tip jar.

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81st Rant: The 2016 Presidential Primary Election Schedule

At the Republican National Committee (RNC) Winter Meeting over the weekend, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had taken what I think is a major step toward taking the White House back in 2016 by strengthening the nominee (whoever it is, and if we are EVER to take the White House in 2016 we need to follow what Andrew Breitbart had said. More on that below) and empowering the voters during the primary process.

One of the main things he did is shorten the primary process for the goal of having the convention in late June or early July. The following is a list of the rules that were passed to make it happen.

[So] on Friday, we passed new rules to shape the 2016 presidential primary process.

• First, the “carve out” states (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada) will hold their contests in February.
• Other states can start their contests on or after March 1.
• Any contest between March 1^st and March 14^th must allocate delegates on a proportional basis.
• Any contest after March 14^th may choose to allocate delegates proportionally or on a winner-take-all basis.
• The deadline for selection of alternates and delegates will move from 35 days before the convention to 45 days before the convention.

You can read the whole thing on breitbart.com. Now while he is on the right path toward having the convention in June or July (which I had said should happen when I wrote my 26^th Rant and my 27^th Rant on these very topics back in January, 2012) he is doing it wrong. Granted, I know I am but a drop in the Republican Party as a voter and as such have no say in the process, but at least I agree that Priebus is leading the party in the right direction with holding the convention in June or July so as to give our nominee a fighting chance during the dog days of summer and also accomplish a little of what I had mentioned in my 26^th Rant.

One thing I would see with [having the voting at the end of the month] is that all of the voting and tabulations would be done by May which means that the nominee would have three months to find a running mate and get the grassroots campaign at least started by getting the main headquarters set up before the convention. Then the day after they give their acceptance speech they can get started on their general election campaign.

You can read the whole thing at ricktheranter.blogspot.com. This in a sense also brings the dates of the Republican National Convention back to what it was during the first nomination of Ronald Reagan, when the 1980 convention was held July 14 to 17. It is also important to note that even before then the Republicans had traditionally held their conventions as early as the middle of May and as late as mid July from 1856 (when the Republicans held their first convention and nominated John Charles Fremont) until 1952 when they nominated Dwight David Eisenhower.

However, no matter what happens on our side, we all have to coalesce behind the nominee (whoever it is) after the convention because as I had pointed out in various rants during the 2012 election, the only two people who have a VIABLE chance of getting the electoral votes are the Republican and the Democrat nominees regardless of who is running as a minor (ie 3rd party or other party) candidate. We need to remember the words of Andrew Breitbart at CPAC in 2012 when he said the following (f/t to Biff Spackle of Director Blue for the transcript)

I don't care who our candidate is

You want a unity speech? I'll give you a unity speech. I don't care who our candidate is.
I haven't since the beginning of this... ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate!
And that's what the Tea Party is.
We are there to confront [the radical left] on behalf of our candidate!
I will march behind who ever our candidate is. Because if we don't, we lose.
There are two paths! There are two paths! One is America, the other is Occupy! One is America, the other is Occupy! And I don't care, and along the way... I've realized over the last three years that the Republican Party and the conservative movement is not what ABC, CBS and NBC put on the screen.
They try to portray you in the worst possible light... and when I travel around the United States meeting people in the Tea Party who care -- black, white, gay, straight -- anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you're not in that bunker 'cause you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you. You're on the other side.

Read that part again: “anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you're not in that bunker 'cause you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you. You're on the other side.” That is right. We might be zealous and support our candidate in the primary, but when the convention comes around and our candidate is not nominated, we have to support whoever the nominee for the Republican side is after the convention – even if it means holding our nose at the poling place on election day – because when we get to the fork in the road, we have to decide which branch of the fork (and from what I had seen there are only branches of the fork in the road) to go. As Andrew said, one path is America, and the other is Occupy or – since Occupy has dispersed in the middle of 2012 – Socialism. Choose wisely the path you wish to traverse, because there is no going back.

Priebus is taking the first steps to taking the White House back in 2016 with the moving of the convention to late June or early July, as well as moving the first four primaries to February, but we need to take the steps to help our candidate get across the finish line to get nominated. If we can, that is fine. If not, then we need to get behind the candidate that does ultimately get the nomination.

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It’s the Weekend

And here’s The News to keep you up to date.

Also, check out The Layfield Report, Twitchy, InstaPundit, Wayne Dupree, Breitbart, and Drudge for more news.

And if you missed it, here’s the news from Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday and Monday (in the form of linkagery)

It would seem that in addition to being a famous gay activist, you also need to be  famous for child porn habits

When was the last time you were excited about a privacy policy?

It seems we have a congressional staffer who is suffering from the Larry Craig Syndrome of loving young boys

"Pick up the nearest book to you, turn to page 45. The first sentence explains your love life." This theory is an epic fail

There are better things to speak on, but the mainstream media is focusing on one little quote from Mike Huckabee

There are some women who are crazy, and then there are some women who are crazier than a pet coon. This woman falls in the latter category

It seems that Brett Kimberlin was caught in yet another lie. (more below)

Last week was the week of the Republican Scandal

Another teacher is suffering from the Mary Kay Letourneau syndrome

There is a new craze: Revenge Porn

Another day, another school shooting. This time at South Carolina State University

And now it is time for the perfect ad in the personals section

It would seem that Glenn Beck of The Blaze has a a gay agenda

Robert Stacy McCain nailed down the problem with the progressive left: tedious idiots

There is crazy and there is CRAZY. This professor falls under the latter

I predict that in 2014, ObamaCare will be extinct. This according to a wonderful article entitled “ObamaCare Is Doomed”

And Florida is not doing anything to debunk the new nickname of the crazy state

Does Chris Christie have yambags large enough for the Republican Governor Association?

There is an articles that takes two steps forward and one step back

Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie is showing some serious signs that he is out to unseat Senator Mark Warner in Virginia

It would seem that Florida is the home to crazy people and also gay teen porn stars

And here is more about gay teen porn stars

Ahhhh yes. the failures of Government sponsored education

And the “religion of peace” strikes again

The Marxist sports bloggers are coming out of the woodworks

Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Wendy Davis hid the real story of her life

Paul Krugman continues to spout economic inequality, like Obama does

Rule of thumb: Just because you recited the Roman Alphabet, it does not make you a viable (or honest) gubernatorial candidate

Smitty has a good ode to global warming

f/t to The Other McCain for exposing the #JusticeForDrV hoax

Robert Stacy McCain has truth about MSNBC as per usual

The GOP has plans for disaster on ObamaCare

Liberal logic: If you expose a sociopath, you get accused of transphobia

One thing about the left: They are special snowflakes

Supporting Republicans is bad if you are a Latino and are an actress living in California

More on the ObamaCare Death Spiral

Finally, a Mexican accused of murder has been deported after 13 years of crime

I bring good news for bloggers from a federal court

f/t to Wombat Socho for his Rule 5 and FMJRA posts of the week

In addition to The Other McCain, there is news form elsewhere in the blogosphere.

f/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her op-ed entitled The media and the truth...diametrically opposed

f/t to Craig Andresen of The National Patriot for his usual Friday Fume

f/t to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash! for his usual Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering and Team Kimberlin posts of the day

Mr. Hoge also has some legal news for us

f/t to Sister Toldjah and the Sister Toldjah Blog for exposing the White House launch of another Ministry of Truth division

The Sister Toldjah Blog also has an article on Schumer encouraging Obama to use the IRS against the Tea PArty

f/t to Bella Lower for Lowering the Boom on the White House wanting us to be a part of the State of the Union Address this Tuesday. (then again, this might be a good way for We The People to engage Obama on stuff he does not want to talk about)

f/t to Sarah Rumpf of Sunshine State Sarah for singing an ode to Wendy Davis

f/t to Dana Loesch for her post entitled Tarantino on Guns

f/t to Conservative Byte for telling conservative to stop playing defense

In case you missed it, here is my playlist from a 7 hour long #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio last Sunday. I am planning on being on the air tomorrow at 3 PM for my usual 4 hours. Not to worry, as my shows are Bieber Free. That is to say, no original Justin Bieber songs.

And that is all the news that is news for today. I might be up at 10 PM tonight to add some tweets during Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Channel. So stay tuned to my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) for that as well as for other news throughout the day.

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80th Rant: The Republican Presidential Nomination and 2016

One of my favorite blogs is entitled The Other McCain (no, not THAT McCain but the OTHER guy named McCain) and one of the articles that caught my eye was by Smitty entitled “32 GOP Presidential Choices? Nuts!” In it there was an email from GOP.com about 32 potential candidates for the presidential nomination. Now Smitty brings up a good point when he said the following:

(a) The next election is in 9 1/2 months, dudes. It’s both more important to focus on the next election, and to understand that how this November goes will inform what happens in 2016 in a major way.

We DO have a very important election in 9.5 months called the midterm elections in which all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 seats in the Senate (a total of 468 members of Congress) are up for grabs. If we focus on that, then we will decide where this country will go for the next two years and then ultimately in 2016. However, just for grinz, Smitty had put the 32 candidates in separate categories. I will posit his categories for all 32 candidates, and then offer my picks in the same categories.

Here are Smitty’s picks:

YES (9)	– Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas - Nikki Haley, South Carolina governor - Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor – Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor – Mike Pence, Indiana governor - Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky - Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor – Former Rep. Allen West, of Florida - Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator
MAYBE (7)	- John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations - Ben Carson, author and neurosurgeon – Rick Perry, Texas governor - Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state – Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida - Sen. Rob Portman, of Ohio – Sen. Tim Scott, of South Carolina
NO (11)	- Sen. Kelly Ayotte, of New Hampshire - Haley Barbour, former Mississippi governor – Chris Christie, New Jersey governor – Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor - Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor - Susana Martinez, New Mexico governor – John Kasich, Ohio governor - Former Rep. Ron Paul, of Texas – Tim Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor – Brian Sandoval, Nevada governor - Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota
I WILL VOTE LIBERTARIAN (2)	- Jeb Bush, former Florida governor - Rep. Peter King, of New York
SPECIAL MENTIONS (3)	– Herman Cain, a radio host–Health concerns - Newt Gingrich, former House speaker–Be an advisor, sir. – Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin–You soiled yourself on the budget deal.

And here are my picks:

YES (7)	- Marco Rubio (Florida Senator) - Ted Cruz (Texas Senator) - John Bolton (former ambassador to the United Nations) - Scott Walker (Wisconsin Governor) -  Nikki Haley (South Carolina Governor) - Tim Scott (South Carolina Senator) - Bobby Jindal (Louisiana Governor)
MAYBE (13)	- Ben Carson (Author and Neurosurgeon) - Paul Ryan (Wisconsin Congressman) - Allen West (Former Florida Congressman) - Rand Paul (Kentucky Senator) - Brian Sandoval (Nevada Governor) - John Kasich (Ohio Governor) - Condoleezza Rice (Former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush) - Sarah Palin (Former Alaska Governor) - Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire Senator) - Haley Barbour (Former Mississippi Governor) Mike Pence (Indiana Governor) - Susanna Martinez (New Mexico Governor) - John Thune (Former South Dakota Senator)
NO (10)	- Jeb Bush (Former Florida Governor) - Peter King (New York Congressman) - Rick Santorum (Former Pennsylvania Senator) - Ron Paul (Former Texas Congressman) - Mike Huckabee (Former Arkansas Governor) - Tim Pawlenty (Former Minnesota Governor) - Rick Perry (Texas Governor) - Rob Portman (Ohio Senator) - Chris Christie (New Jersey Governor) - Mitch Daniels (Former Indiana Governor)
I WILL VOTE OTHER (0)	NONE (This is because if I were to vote for other if there were people in this category, then I would in a sense be voting for the Democrat running)
SPECIAL MENTIONS (2)	- Herman Cain (Considering his age and also how 2012 was a train wreck for him, he might stay in radio) - Newt Gingrich (I think he would be good in an advisory position or as Chief of Staff or other insider position for a Republican President)

Do you agree or disagree with my picks? Let me know on Skype (rickbulow74), email (rickbulow74@live.com), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/RickBulow1974) or on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) where I am wrong. Let us, in the immortal words of one Tony Katz, engage the conversation on this and see where we differ.

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