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Rand Paul, the son of Texas Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, is the bluegrass state’s GOP nominee for United States Senate.

This was unthinkable 16 months ago.

Since April of last year, mainstream media outlets have portrayed the “Tea Party” movement as nothing more than a fringe element of so-called disenfranchised white voters. Of course, the majority of Americans realize this false label is nothing more than unfounded vitriol aimed at rallying an otherwise regressive liberal voting bloc.

Paul’s primary victory not only proved that establishment Republicans should be careful, but that grassroots campaigns can still work in the day and age of 24-hour news cycles coupled with corrupt liberal news bias.

The kind of political activism that carried Paul to victory is the nucleus of the Tea Party, which the mainstream media fails to recognize.

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Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Attorney General and Democratic candidate to take Chris Dodd’s upcoming vacant senate seat, held a news conference to explain his “misstatements” about his combat service during the Vietnam War. He was caught on video giving a speech at a veteran’s

rally where he put his hand to his heart and said, “We have learned something very important since the days I served in Vietnam.” The problem is he never served in Vietnam. In fact, he received five draft deferments and finally enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve to avoid being drafted into the army.

Apparently, in at least eight hometown newspaper articles he also claimed serving in Vietnam and never made an effort to correct the record. On one occasion he claimed to be spat on when he returned home from Vietnam. That’s outrageous.

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There may be no more worthless endeavor than that of the mainstream media to explain the news to us. The more they do, the more they demonstrate that they probably need the average person to explain it to them.

Of course, establishment media is prone to embrace establishment thinking. It doesn’t get any more establishment than the Associated Press, which has gone all in with the delusional notion that the electorate simply has it in for incumbents without regard to party or ideology.

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I think I’m a little behind, but I just had an opportunity to look at Time’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Are they kidding?

Sure, the list rightly includes President Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and the most influential person in the world (perhaps in human history) – Oprah Winfrey.

But Conan O’Brien?

Look, I like Conan as much as the next 26 year old. He’s funny. But among the 100 most influential people in the world? He wasn’t even influential enough to keep his job. He isn’t even the most influential late night comedian, and frankly, late night comedians aren’t really that influential. But if we had to choose one to make the Time 100, how about Jay Leno? He, after all, was at least influential enough to take Conan’s job.

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OK incumbents, all you defenders of the status quo: As the angry political earthquake shakes your terra unfirma, you can quake behind the gates of your communities or you can step out and boldly go where some have only dared to go, with the challenge to BRING IT ON!!!

*Forget the lack of Protestants on the Supreme Court. Isn’t it time the president nominated someone who is an active Atheist? BRING IT ON!!

*And speaking of presidential choices, shouldn’t he select as Defense Secretary an openly gay person…a lesbian at that? BRING IT ON!!!

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You do realize, don’t you, that a lynch-pin of left-wing orthodoxy is rejection of the whole idea that America is a special, benevolent place. You do realize that they mock this whole idea when they gather for wine in the Hamptons, or for hummus in the faculty lounge.

They think the whole notion is arrogant and jingoistic. They think all American attempts to pressure other nations about human rights amount to little more than chest-puffing, and that the actual fate of millions of people starved for liberty isn’t even the slightest sincere concern for us.

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From Bloomberg:

“Barack.”

“Um, ah … our opponents are in this reform effort are the epitome of … wha’, wha’, who?”

“It is I.  I’ve come for you.”

“What?  My valet?  Aren’t you a little early?”

“Barack.  You know who I am.  I have come to complete our little, shall we say, arrangement?”

“What are you talking about?”

“So you don’t remember that little consulting agreement you signed way back when with that grizzled literary agent and consultant?  You’re a lawyer.  You should know always to read the fine print.”

“You mean?  Gulp.”

“Exactly.  I’m here for your soul.”

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