Posts by Mike Rogers

Grover Norquist Shills for Obama Crony’s Wireless Boondoggle

February 16, 2012

I got an email – below – from Grover Norquist at ATR requesting the recipients take action and sign a petition to free up spectrum for wireless expansion. All well and good, but the thinly veiled subplot was to demand that Congress force the FCC to permit Obama cronies Lightsquared to use spectrum adjacent to the GPS [ Read more ]

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CPAC Straw Poll: We Want Mittens with Principles!!

February 13, 2012

Yeah, that makes no sense, but that’s the conundrum posed by the CPAC Straw Poll results this weekend. The poll was conducted in two parts, CPAC attendees and National. A unique ID was provided to each registrant, and 3408 of the approximately 10,000 attendees voted. Link to the charts is below, but here is the [ Read more ]

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CPAC: The Malkin Digest

February 12, 2012

Michelle Malkin has two clever posts summarizing the key speeches in 20 words or less, indeed, she got most of the speeches in 5 words each! CPAC speeches in 20 words (Feb 10) Newt Gingrich: I am not the Establishment. Mitt Romney: I am not a liberal. Rick Santorum: I am not Mitt/Newt. Ron Paul: [ Read more ]

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CPAC: Starving at a Feast: Why Aren’t We Using Our Untapped Energy Resources?

February 12, 2012

Panel Discussion on how our energy resources are locked up by green energy elites and environmental wackos, moderated by James Taylor, Senior Fellow and Managing Editor, Environment and Climate News, Heartland Institute. The panel consisted of: Ann McElhinney, Film Director and Producer, “Not Evil Just Wrong“, and the upcoming “FrackNation” Charles Drevna, President, American Fuel [ Read more ]

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CPAC: Myron Ebell of Competitive Enterprise Institute

February 11, 2012

Grokster Mike, and Pete DaTechGuy interview Myron Ebel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Their chief areas of focus are energy policy and regulatory overreach. On the regulatory side, that includes both EPA silliness, and the regulatory uncertainty which prevents new businesses from starting up in the USA. CEI has also been at the forefront of [ Read more ]

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New Film Project from Ann+Phelim: FrackNation

February 11, 2012

“FRACKING BRILLIANT” Say the T-shirts advertising the new venture of anti-envronmental wacko film makers Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer, and their colleague Magda. See also the panel discussion at CPAC on overcoming the obstacles to utilising the nation’s energy resources. Update: here is their request for funding on KickStarter ; GasLand got $750K from environmentalists. Ann [ Read more ]

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Mr Clean Makes a Sweep, Thankyou BarryO

February 8, 2012

As the final caucus results roll in on this first Tuesday night in February, it is looking more and more like Rick Santorum will sweep Missouri, Minnesota, and come close, if not first in Colorado. Santorum trounced poor Mittens by 30% in MO, 18% in MN, and was running neck and neck in CO, with [ Read more ]

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Herman Cain Endorses Newt Gingrich

January 29, 2012

Newt Gingrich spoke at the Lincoln Day Dinner at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida, where he was endorsed by former candidate Herman Cain. Other speakers included Rep. Allen West (R-FL), & Sid Dinerstein, Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman. Click here for just the Cain segment (Video Courtesy C-SPAN)

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Nullification: The Movie to be Premiered at CPAC, Discussed on WCRN

January 28, 2012

Thursday evening February 9th, Grok friends The Tenth Amendment Center, and Foundation for a Free Society, will premiere their Movie “Nullification” at CPAC 2012. Your humble scribe will be there reporting for the Grok. This Saturday morning, Jan 28th, Pete DaTechGuy will interview Jason Rink, Executive Director of The Foundation for a Free Society, and director of [ Read more ]

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What Happened at the Reagan Revolution?

January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney has gone to great lengths to belittle Gingrich’s role in the Reagan revolution, even having an aide check the index of Reagan’s diary to find “just one reference” to Newt. Problem is, that speed reading to find what you want to believe, leads you to overlook everything else. In fact, the people who [ Read more ]

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Not So Lucky Talisman – Wipeout in SC

January 22, 2012

The best laid plans of gnomes and men were not enough to save Mittens from a hubristic wipeout in South Carolina Saturday evening. First he claimed the momentum and inevitability after NH, then, as he saw Newt’s numbers rebounding, Romney called in the surrogate attackers, and finally he tried to backpedal expectations – all to no avail. Newt’s margin of victory was [ Read more ]

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Reporting from SC: Can Mittens be Stopped? Is This Newt’s Night? Can Santorum Surge? (again)

January 21, 2012

Update 9pm: Mittens was stopped It IS Newt’s night! Santorum surged past Ron Paul, but no further. Live coverage from Stacy all evening Time for another plug for our other roving friend, real shoe-leather reporter, and first class writer, Robert Stacy McCain, AKA TheOtherMcCain. Refreshed by a luxurious two day break at home in Maryland, [ Read more ]

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You’ll Never Roam Alone: Mittens Gets Help in SC

January 21, 2012

Our very own traveling gnome has been spotted on location this week, wintering in southern climes, where he *may* have been overheard saying: “READ MY LIPS, NO NEWT SUCCESS!” In fact, in a moment of rich irony, the man who would rule over our choices of candidates and party chairs, said of Gingrich “Look, this [ Read more ]

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