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* Late reviews of Carly Fiorina/Barbara Boxer debate: Sac Bee ’s Dan Walters says Boxer won . OC Register ’s Brian Joseph calls the whole debate a ” dud ” and a “letdown,” while 58 percent of Register readers give the win to Carly in a web poll.

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California Roundup: Who Won? Who Pays? Who’s Stoned? And More

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is the latest victim of the Tea Party insurgency that’s trying to take over the Republican Party

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Reason.tv: Give Us Liberty? – Q&A with Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks

* Bankrupt city to make sure every golf cart driver is a government employee: The City of Los Angeles, after spending seven years negotiating the golf cart concession for its seven!!! (7!!!) public courses, drops the private company and decides to get into the golf cart business itself.

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California Roundup: Plastic Bags and Government Golf Cart Drivers Are Up; Illegal Immigration, Bad Surfers Are Down

Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Michael Moynihan talks to Massachusetts congressional candidate, Killing Fields survivor, and professed “Reagan Republican” Sam Meas: Sam Meas isn’t your typical congressional candidate. For one thing, the Cambodian refugee doesn’t know his birthday. ”I tell people I am 38 years old— plus or minus two years.” In 1973, Mr. Meas’s father was sent to be “re-educated” by the Khmer Rouge and was never heard from again.

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Reason Writers Around Town: Michael C. Moynihan on Massachusetts’ Cambodian Tea Party Candidate

Two weeks ago, Politico broke the news that a major coalition of liberal supporters of the health care overhaul was telling activists not to mention deficit or cost reductions when attempting to sell people on the bill. Now, Politico reports , another major liberal health care activist group, Health Care for America Now, has an even better strategy for helping out the politicians who voted for the bill: Maybe just avoid talking about the law entirely!   The progressive coalition Health Care for America Now fought hard to pass health care reform.

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Maybe If We Just Avoid Talking About ObamaCare, People Will Like It

On Friday The New York Times ran a ” Political Memo ” by Kate Zernike anticipating Glenn Beck’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial the next day. Here is how it began: It seems the ultimate thumb in the eye: that Glenn Beck would summon the Tea Party faithful to a rally on the anniversary of the March on Washington, and address them from the very place where the Rev. Dr.

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What Passes As Fairness to Tea Partiers in The New York Times

The Democratic National Committee…raised more than twice as much money in July as the Republican National Committee, and finished the month with $11 million on hand, compared with $5.3 million at the RNC.

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Cash Vs. Momentum in the Midterms: Will Flush Fat-Cat Dems Beat Rich-in-Love Reps?

Hit & Run regulars and folks who attend Reason’s DC events may know Bruce Majors, who haunts the comments section at this here blog like Banquo’s Ghost at the dessert section of a Golden Corral buffet. Majors, an openly gay real estate agent who has lived in the nation’s capital since 1980, was near the center of a bizarre Glenn Beck rally mini-scandal when a visitor’s guide to DC he penned was interpreted as evidence of racism on the part of Tea Party types.

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Meet The Tea Partier Who Gave Thousands to Dems & Warned DC Visitors of The Yellow & Green Metro Lines

Speaking of life being too precious to be wasted on something as stupid as politics , I noticed with some chagrin today that my Twitter stream of baseball stat-nerdery was chunk-a-blunk with otherwise not-very-political writers I enjoy going ballistic on St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa, because he’s going to be speaking at the Glenn Beck rally tomorrow at the Lincoln Memorial

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USA out of Tony La Russa