Here is the Sam Adams Alliance booth, with Sam Adams bobbleheads to be given away. Pay special attention to the arrows. They point to the two posters that are also the "wallpapers" released on the Sam Adams website on March 1: Sam's Desktop Wallpapers.
And here is the Americans for Limited Government booth, giving away candy and free pens.
But, Dan Borchers' experience, and Ann Coulter's slur, Michelle Malkin's ascendance, Newt's rock stardom, Mitt's Gott-Uns and Rudy's surprise manage to put Howard Rich and the Cato gang back into proper perspective: a nasty, perhaps infected zit on the face of the hard-core conservative movement, perhaps, but merely a blemish.
As -- Dan Borchers please note -- Coulter is a blemish on the face of the movement. "Conservatism" is a reasoned philosophy, in its highest manifestation, whose premises I disagree with. But premises are matters of experience and belief, and it needs to be understood that, while we may disagree, two fundamentally differing points of view have ALWAYS been the dipoles within which the United States live, and which WE EMBRACE as healthy and necessary for our democracy to operate.
It is in aberrations, like Coulter, like Howie Rich & Gang and their manipulative, stealth tactics that our democracy is threatened. For too many years, those who would represent themselves as "Liberal" or "Conservative" have, like Ann Coulter, been reflexively coddled by one side or t'other.(I'd come up with a "Liberal" counterpoint, but the vicious snarking of the Right, like Malkin, is SO pervasive and constant that it would be an act of betrayal of moderation to toss even ONE more rock on that unstable cairn.)
And, the grand rollout of "The Sam Adams Alliance" supposedly free of "Americans for Limited Government" was nothing is not a mild aberration, like a zit.
Paul Jacob moved his "Common Sense" radio commentary/two minute speech transcript webpage over to SAA a long time ago, merely by changing his logo.
But, as Becky pointed out at Preemptive Karma back in August, Jacob was deeply involved in the failed "Oklahomans in Action" "Stop OverSpending Oklahoma" initiative(Jacob is president of Citizens in Action, headquartered at his house in the Washington, D.C. suburbs). And as confirmed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court's draft opinion of the December 12, 2007 decision denying OIA's last appeal of striking SOS Oklahoma from the ballot -- they literally call it TABOR - Paul Jacob was an active participant in the petitioning process, a petitioning process that the Oklahoma Supreme Court notes was felonious .
But, Paul Jacob, fresh from his testimony in the Oklahoma trial and moving his radio show to the Sam Adams Alliance, participated in the rollout with this lickspittle bit of bland treason on Townhall.com (You know, the sunglasses lady's employer), wherein he emits a relentless string, of absolute thigh-slapping howlers, like this:
And here is the Americans for Limited Government booth, giving away candy and free pens.
But, Dan Borchers' experience, and Ann Coulter's slur, Michelle Malkin's ascendance, Newt's rock stardom, Mitt's Gott-Uns and Rudy's surprise manage to put Howard Rich and the Cato gang back into proper perspective: a nasty, perhaps infected zit on the face of the hard-core conservative movement, perhaps, but merely a blemish.
As -- Dan Borchers please note -- Coulter is a blemish on the face of the movement. "Conservatism" is a reasoned philosophy, in its highest manifestation, whose premises I disagree with. But premises are matters of experience and belief, and it needs to be understood that, while we may disagree, two fundamentally differing points of view have ALWAYS been the dipoles within which the United States live, and which WE EMBRACE as healthy and necessary for our democracy to operate.
It is in aberrations, like Coulter, like Howie Rich & Gang and their manipulative, stealth tactics that our democracy is threatened. For too many years, those who would represent themselves as "Liberal" or "Conservative" have, like Ann Coulter, been reflexively coddled by one side or t'other.(I'd come up with a "Liberal" counterpoint, but the vicious snarking of the Right, like Malkin, is SO pervasive and constant that it would be an act of betrayal of moderation to toss even ONE more rock on that unstable cairn.)
And, the grand rollout of "The Sam Adams Alliance" supposedly free of "Americans for Limited Government" was nothing is not a mild aberration, like a zit.
Paul Jacob moved his "Common Sense" radio commentary/two minute speech transcript webpage over to SAA a long time ago, merely by changing his logo.
But, as Becky pointed out at Preemptive Karma back in August, Jacob was deeply involved in the failed "Oklahomans in Action" "Stop OverSpending Oklahoma" initiative(Jacob is president of Citizens in Action, headquartered at his house in the Washington, D.C. suburbs). And as confirmed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court's draft opinion of the December 12, 2007 decision denying OIA's last appeal of striking SOS Oklahoma from the ballot -- they literally call it TABOR - Paul Jacob was an active participant in the petitioning process, a petitioning process that the Oklahoma Supreme Court notes was felonious .
... The organization's attitude on residency was that if a circulator came into Oklahoma with the intention of staying only for the duration of the petition drive38 or could provide some address within the state,39 the circulator was an Oklahoma resident - a premise not supported by Oklahoma law ...All of which begs the question that has dogged this campaign: in virtually every state in which Rich/Jacob/O'Keefe/Tillman/Wilson operated, clearly definable crimes were observed and reported. But in no state, evidently, has ANYone been willing to prosecute those crimes. And the question has NEVER been asked: if the "Howard Rich gang" was the impetus behind every one of those initiatives, isn't that racketeering? Isn't that an interstate conspiracy to commit election fraud? At least, shouldn't SOMEone be blamed for the "pervasive fraud" -- as the Judge in Montana called it?
Just as it is this Court's constitutional duty to determine residency as it relates to elections, the Legislature shoulders the constitutional responsibility to enact laws to prevent corruption in making, procuring, and submitting initiative and referendum petitions. It has done so in three provisions relating to circulators in title 34.
Section 3.153 makes it a crime punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.00 and a year in the county jail for any person other than a qualified elector -- a United States citizen over the age of 18 and a bona fide Oklahoma resident - to circulate an initiative petition.
Section 6 requires circulators to verify every petition by sworn testimony that the circulator is a qualified elector -- a United States citizen over the age of 18 and a bona fide Oklahoma resident -- signing the verification and giving an address.
Pursuant to ??23, it is a felony punishable by a fine of up to $500.00, imprisonment up to two years in a state penitentiary, or both to sign or file any certificate or petition knowing the same or any part thereof to be falsely made. Therefore, any circulator signing a verification who is not a qualified elector -- a United States citizen over the age of 18 and a bona fide Oklahoma resident -- or anyone who aides and abets a circulator in doing so commits a felony.
But, Paul Jacob, fresh from his testimony in the Oklahoma trial and moving his radio show to the Sam Adams Alliance, participated in the rollout with this lickspittle bit of bland treason on Townhall.com (You know, the sunglasses lady's employer), wherein he emits a relentless string, of absolute thigh-slapping howlers, like this:
Sam Adams, more than any other person, united the 13 colonies into one America, convinced them to battle the biggest empire on the globe, and thus ushered in the greatest period of freedom in the history of mankind.And this:
It's wonderful history. But, of course, Sam Adams is long dead. Now mainly remembered for beer, right?
Wrong . . . or, if correct, not for long.
"We need a real, grassroots movement across the country, organized locally," says John Tillman, president of The Sam Adams Alliance. "We connect and support citizen leaders who are working to expand liberty and hold the government accountable."
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