Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day: The Aaron Walker Chapter

If you haven’t heard already, today is “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day.”

Who is Brett Kimberlin?

He is a former murder suspect. He is the Speedway Bomber of 1978.

He has 35 criminal counts against him, appearing in 5 criminal trials, and serving 17 years in prison.

He is the founder of non-profits Justice for Music and Velvet Revolution, which have received thousands of dollars in grants from the Tides Foundation, the Barbara Streisand Foundation as well as the Heinz Family Foundation.

Among these credentials, you might add “enemy of free speech.” Brett Kimberlin has taken it upon himself to employ the courts to harass anyone who speaks out in any way about him. He has done so primarily against independent bloggers who have found his association Democrat operatives like Neal Rauhauser, curious, at best.

By /// May 25, 2012

Waaaaah! Who’s really ‘unfunny?’ Conservatives or Comedy Central?

Last night, conservatives once again owned Twitter. This time, instead of sabotaging an AstroTurf attempt by the Obama campaign to attack Romney, (as conservatives have been doing this week like it was their job and they are up for a promotion…and a bonus) their target was Gonzalo Cordova.

He drew conservatives’ ire when he wrote a piece titled “Conservative Hashtag Games are Ruining Twitter” for Comedy Central’s blog Indecision.
In the article he says that he doesn’t have a problem “with these hashtag games politically. I have a problem with these hashtag games comedically.”

Cordova then provides a few examples of what he thinks are unfunny tweets and proceeds to analyze exactly why they are “unfunny.” How…humorous…of him…

By /// May 18, 2012

Romney reaffirms marriage stance at Liberty University graduation

LYNCHBURG, Va.-  Gov. Mitt Romney spoke to over 6,000 graduates and 34,000 attendees at Liberty University’s 39th commencement, the largest audience Romney has addressed in his political career.

Despite reports that he may steer clear of the topics on faith and same-sex marriage, Romney dove right in stating emphatically, and to extended applause, that “Marriage is between one man and one woman.”

By /// May 12, 2012

Center for American Progress and the Left’s Hypocritical Class Envy

New rules coming down the pipe from the Left: It’s OK for Democrats to be rich, but if Republicans are rich they are terrible people whose wealth should be controlled by the government. Oh!  And, rich Republicans are the problem with America.

At least those are the implications from the hubbub created by the Center for American Progress (CAP) (via its subsidiary blog Think Progress) around a video of Gov. Mitt Romney speaking to a group of wealthy donors about how wonderful it is to be wealthy.

The president is allowed to do 40k-a-plate fundraisers but when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney raises money for his presidential campaign,  he’s supposedly out of touch with the average American

By /// May 3, 2012

The real #WarOnStudents

Some on the Left are saying that “right wing bloggers” only oppose President Obama’s push to keep student loan rates low because it comes from President Obama.

As usual I am unsure whether they are simply being deceptive or that they truly believe they are the only ones that have thought through their political philosophy (I’m not saying they have, I’m just saying they probably think they have).

Sorry, Eric Boehlert, we don’t oppose the president’s philosophy on student loans just because it comes from him. (Boehlert is Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.)

Those of us who disagree actually believe in this thing called the free market, and another thing called logic. What this means is that we think – as opposed to many on the Left – that a cause has effects that ripple even beyond what any one person or group of people can predict or understand.

By /// April 27, 2012

Who’s It Going to Be? Red Alert Politics’ VP Watch

There have been a number of names thrown around as possibilities for Mitt Romney’s running mate. So here at Red Alert Politicswe decided to pick who we think are the top four in the running to get the VP nod.

(In alphabetical order:)

Governor Louis Fortuño (P.R.) – Fortuño has almost a full term of executive experience under his belt as well as four years as Puerto Rico’s non-voting Member of Congress.

He is a battle-tested fighter for limited government and free markets. His decision to keep Puerto Rico solvent by making deep cuts in government spending came amidst much protest.

Although Puerto Rico offers no electoral votes, Florida does have the second highest Puerto Rican population in the United States proper. I would consider a Fortuño Romney’s curve ball option.

By /// April 12, 2012

UPDATED: Malkin to be on Board of National Bloggers Club

A reliable source has revealed to Red Alert Politics that Michelle Malkin has agreed to join the board of directors for a new association for right-of-center bloggers, the National Bloggers Club.

Malkin is a conservative political commentator known for the conservative news and commentary blog Hotair.com. Her most recent online venture is the new, popular website Twichy, a Twitter curation site that gathers what people are saying about the latest popular news.

Malkin also recently won the Legacy Award at this year’s Blog Bash at CPAC for her efforts in building the conservative blogoshpere.

By /// April 4, 2012

An Unaccomplished President

If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate (which looks to be the case) or the entire law, President Barack Obama will have been one of the most unaccomplished presidents in U.S. history. Whether he wins reelection or not remains to be seen, but especially if Republicans take a majority in the U.S. Senate, an Obama second term will be a lame duck.

Here at Red Alert Politics we were able to run a truly unscientific and not credible study on the least accomplished presidents. Let’s take a look at President Obama’s competition.

By /// March 29, 2012