Around And About

There is some mighty interesting stuff in the conservative blogosphere this week, and we didn't even get to all of our usual suspects:

Jon Caldera reports that the Independence Institute has a new education blog, Ed is Watching.  Cute.

Jon Caldera also has a funny introduction to a post about the tax increase litigation that begins "A statue of me?"  More seriously, it ends thusly:

[ Bill ] Ritter signed it on the west steps of the Capitol in a photo-op with little kids. But the governor read it too - not a penny slated for kids. I am tired of our children being used to pimp for tax increases.  They aren’t political props, they’re children.  It is just simple child exploitation, and it is ugly as hell.  Someday, maybe even in my lifetime, pimping kids for tax increases will be a transparent abuse and those guilty of it will have no political futures.

Jon Caldera also writes a wonderful mother's day essay, well worth reading even though Mother's day has come and gone.

Schaffer v Udall has one of the best essays they have done on Mark Udall as a Boulder Liberal in a while.   Every time Taylor West tries to climb out of the name calling slime pit that she has put herself in, SvU might remind her and its readers of the many times (this one included) that she claims that the Mark Udall campaign is above name calling when it is doing plenty of its own.

Schaffer v Udall, with the help of Vince Carroll, does a smack down on plagiarismnowaction.  It is about time that Alan Franklin (did we spell that right, Alan) admitted that he was a plagiarist.  Come clean Alan.

Face the State has two really useful essays on the State Senate races.  The best is on the competitive races.  More mundane are the noncompetitive races.   

Mark Hillman has put up a "Support Mark Hillman for national committeeman" blurb on his site.  We do because the other folks running aren't well suited for the job.

We'd like to say something nice about Ross Kaminsky at Gang of Four, especially after he called us a bitter s.o.b., but his essays are exactly what we expected, too long to be readable or read, and full of self promotion.  It took him only ten days to go after John McCain, and he did it viciously. If he works hard enough at destroying McCain, we can and will have a Senator Mark Udall.  We wonder if some folks are squirming a little.