Cruz Wins Texas Senate Runoff

Up the Establishment!

Tea Party v. Establishment in Texas Today

Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, 41, is the candidate for the Republican nomination for US Senate of the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and the tea party.  Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, a Texas oilman with deep pockets, is his establishment supported opponent.    This is Texas, so the Republican primary winner will in all probability win the seat.  Here is the complete story.

In May Dewhurst beat Cruz 45% to 35% in a 4-way contest but fell short of the 50% he needed to avoid a runoff. 

Yesterday, a poll taken over the weekend was released that showed Cruz leading Dewhurst by 10 points.

The runoff is today.  You'll want to pay attention tonight.

Registered vs. Likely Voter Polls; The Undecided

Here is Jay Cost, election analyst formerly for RealClearPolitics.com and now for The Weekly Standard, showing that there is a 2.5% oversampling of Democrats in the registered voter polls.

Since party self-identification predicts presidential preference at about the 90% level, that implies a 2.3% excess preference for Obama in registered voter polls today.

Trashing the Dream -- Part V

Here is another excellent analysis of Obama's you-didn't-build-it speech.  Vince Carroll of the Denver Post asks why, if he doesn't hate entrepreneurs, does he keep acting like he does?

Who Invented the Internet? [Trashing the Dream -- Part IV]

Who invented the Internet? 

It wasn't the government.  It was a company whose name starts with an "X."

Gordon Crovitz explains it all for you here.

The Road to Freedom... and Prosperity

Arthur C. Brooks is President of the American Enterprise Institute, and author of The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise, the incredibly important theme of which you can learn about in the short video here.

After you watch it, do what my brother recommended when he sent it to me.  Send it to everybody you know.  To quote brother Bob, "No.  Really.  Do it."

Trashing the Dream -- Part III

Thanks to my brother for this video from Bill Whittle.

Obama knows "you didn't build that," because he didn't build most of his own personal successes.

Trashing the Dream -- Part II

Here is Charles Krauthammer doing what I did yesterday: interpreting President Obama's "you didn't build that" statement in the most favorable way, giving him the benefit of the doubt for his clumsy construction, and then showing how it trashes the American dream.

And here is Thomas Sowell, showing how Obama's statement lays bare the rotten principles underlying progressivism.

Obama Hates the Dream

Here is John Kass of the Chicago Tribune on President Obama's recent bashing of entrepreneurs.  It begins with a beautiful, gritty story of Kass's father's long days in his grocery store, and ends as a brilliant response to Obama and his progressivist ideology.

I was inclined from the beginning to give Obama the benefit of the doubt when he said

Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen,

I was pretty sure his "You didn't build that," meant the "American system," or the "roads and bridges," not the "business."  Though it exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the sources of both our economic and physical infrastructure, it was mostly a clumsy construction.