I greeted today's news that Bill Clinton would be going to Minnesota to campaign for Preezy Obama today with much joy and enthusiasm.

After all, it meant that by heading that far North, impeached President and alleged rapist Bill Clinton would be nowhere near me, my family or my immediate circle of friends.

But I also took satisfaction in realizing that this news was further validation that the Democratic bastion of Minnesota was firmly in play for Gov. Romney this year. It was the icing on the delicious cake that was the recent poll showing the current Preezy up only 47%-44% over the soon-to-be-45th President of the United States, Mitt Romney, in the land of 10,000 lakes.

Now I don't often think about Minnesota. I know Hibbing, MN is the ancestral home of my favorite song and dance man, Bob Dylan, and also that it is the hometown of my all-time favorite basketball player, Kevin McHale. And I know that an alleged artist formerly known as Prince calls Duluth home. Outside of that, though, I always kind of viewed MN the same way most Americans view Canada: it's the hat we don to keep warm a couple months of the year.

What I didn't know until now though was that Minnesota isn't really a hat. It is, in fact, becoming America's raspberry beret. more...

Posted by: Jack M. at 08:59 AM | Comments (198)
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My office may be closed today, but The Old Guard's isn't:

Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), keeps guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Hurricane Sandy at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Oct. 29, 2012. Hyde lives by the Sentinel's Creed which in part says “Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements, I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability”. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Jose A. Torres Jr.)

Note: The original post featured an image that was reported to be from today but turned out to have been taken in September. It was replaced with the image above that appears on The Old Guard's Facebook page.
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Posted by: andy at 07:50 AM | Comments (304)
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I think this is the first time Rasmussen has polled Romney ahead in Ohio. Rasmussen has Romney up 50-48, but well within the margin of error.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters shows Romney with 50% support to President ObamaÂ’s 48%. One percent (1%) likes some other candidate, while another one percent (1%) remains undecided.

Also, a Mitt Romney Super PAC has bought some airtime in Pennsylvania.

The late push for Pennsylvania comes as some internal GOP polling has shown the always-elusive Keystone State to be within a few points. But other public polling, including a survey released over the weekend by the Philadelphia Inquirer, shows Obama enjoying a lead outside the margin. RomneyÂ’s campaign is not airing ads in Pennsylvania and the candidate himself has not been to the state recently. Paul Ryan recently held a rally at a hangar outside Pittsburgh, but that was partly intended for Ohio consumption.

The ad they'll be running:
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:28 AM | Comments (179)
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This election isn't over. Despite Romney's small lead in the national polls, he's down, tied or narrowly up in the swing states that matter. Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado.

The election is next Tuesday. Next Tuesday! Can you believe it? You've been waiting for this moment since January 2009. You've been counting down the days. Now I ask you, what are you doing to help Mitt Romney?

If you are in one of the aforementioned states, then you have to volunteer. Hate making phone calls? Hate going door to door? Hate giving rides to people you don't know? Well, do you hate those things more or less than another four years of Barack Obama? A liberal Supreme Court for the next 20-30 years? A Barack Obama free from the constraints of running for re-election ever again?

I can only guess at your answer. If you can't take off election day, then volunteer at a local victory center in this last week of the campaign. You can find them here. Just click your state to find the nearest Victory Center. They are normally open seven days a week from 9am to 9pm. Show up. Make phone calls. Ask them if there is anything else you can do. They might be able to hook you up with a group doing door to door work. They may ask you to drive people to the polls on election day. If you don't get off work until 5pm, then drive people to the polls between 5:30 and 8:00.

You can make phone calls from home if you don't want to travel to a victory center. You can do so here.
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:30 AM | Comments (196)
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:15 AM | Comments (294)
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Happy Monday.

If you're not in the path of this hurricane, I feel sorry for how much you're going to have to hear about this hurricane over the next few days.

The 17-member crew of the HMS Bounty has abandoned ship off the coast of North Carolina. Yes, apparently, the HMS Bounty.

More news in a bit.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 03:05 AM | Comments (457)
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Good evening yet again, Morons and Moronettes, and we maintain our vigil on Hurricane Sandy from the AoSHQ Weather Desk.

If you're in Virginia, Maryland, or North Carolina, obviously, you're already getting tropical storm conditions. If you're in eastern Pennsylvania, any part of New Jersey, or anywhere from southeastern New York to the eastern shores of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, you're on deck for hurricane conditions.

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Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:14 PM | Comments (195)
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Alrighty let's get down to it. Last call for the weekend.

Benghazi: "Where the *blank* is Spectre?"

Friday and Saturday, the news leaked out that Tyrone Woods was found dead, slumped over his ammo-exhausted machine gun on top of the Annex, where he and Glen Doherty had fought against 150 or so al-Qaeda affiliated Ansar al-Sharia militants who followed them from the embassy, waiting for Libyan forces to arrive and relieve them and the other US personnel stationed there, along with those they'd saved from the embassy complex. Rumor has it that the two former SEALs had killed 60 of those militants in the firefight.

Today, administration apologists were all over the networks talking about how unhelpful and partisan it is to demand answers from the White House, who want to get the answers more than anybody . . . after the elections.

At least when Shughart and Gordon went down fighting in the original Blackhawk Down incident they knew they were risking their lives in order to buy time for rescuers to get to pilot Mike Durant. Here Woods and Doherty apparently were abandoned to their fate while their hours-long final fight was watched from above.

Meanwhile the legacy media is still managing to keep the story cover-up going.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:10 PM | Comments (803)
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About Sandy.

Smart man.

Updated 7:39 The National Weather Service is also offering some blunt advice for those reluctant to evacuate low-lying areas:

3. IF YOU ARE RELUCTANT, THINK ABOUT YOUR LOVED ONES, THINK ABOUT THE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS WHO WILL BE UNABLE TO REACH YOU WHEN YOU MAKE THE PANICKED PHONE CALL TO BE RESCUED, THINK ABOUT THE RESCUE/RECOVERY TEAMS WHO WILL RESCUE YOU IF YOU ARE INJURED OR RECOVER YOUR REMAINS IF YOU DO NOT SURVIVE.

Seriously, if you're in the path of this storm, there's going to be more continuous rain than you've probably experienced in your life.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 12:44 PM | Comments (939)
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I think Mickey Kaus is onto something here:

Why has Obama’s public campaign been so ineffective for the past month? Couldn’t someone digitally sophisticated and untanked–e.g. Buzzfeed‘s Ben Smith–make a good argument that the President was led astray by the overhyped reality and promise of Internet Politics.

Now, the Ben Smith part is kind of silly, as BuzzFeedPolitics appears to exist solely to further OFA's stupid Internet meme-pushing, but the rest seems right on time.

His team is so Web-savvy theyÂ’ve forgotten how to campaignÂ…. After all, ObamaÂ’s aides are probably all on Twitter. Inevitably, if subconsciously, theyÂ’ll tend to skew in favor of ideas that get them big instant Twitter love, as opposed to old-fashioned themes that will win over the unconverted.

The past few weeks have given us #BigBird, #Romnesia, #Bayonets and others. It's like his entire campaign is a bumper sticker-covered Prius.

What's also notable about this is a fact Kaus failed to mention: Team Obama tried this meme-pushing exercise all summer on Twitter, and conservatives hijacked and mocked their hashtags mercilessly. Every time a new one popped up, Ace, Iowahawk, Cuffy, the Breitbart crew, Treacher, and a cast of thousands on Twitter used biting humor to rally our troops against Obama while smothering any pretense of efficacy this may have ever had as a serious campaign tactic.

This should come as a shock to no one who pays attention to the disastrous results of the left's policies, but the fact that their strategy never worked didn't prevent them from going full-speed ahead with it.

So here we find ourselves a little over a week away from the election with Obama running on fear, Internet memes and faded glory. And the left can't understand why they're losing?

Obama had a meteoric rise from nothing to become the top worldwide trending topic in 2008. But now, he's #OLD.

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