http://therealuglyamerican.com A political blog from a moderate left point of view. Also commenting on general current topics, music, sports, etc. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:50:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fred Barnes was talking a lot about realignment before the 2006 elections. Michael Barone has a new take today at the Opinion Journal. http://therealuglyamerican.com/2007/05/08/realignment-20/ Ok this is just dumb. http://therealuglyamerican.com/2007/03/10/fox-news-freak-out/ Trade shows are a key component of most companies ’ marketing efforts. And for small businesses, trade shows are especially beneficial because they provide an opportunity to reach a plethora of potential customers, investors, industry analysts and journalists over a very short period of time. Want to know the secrets to ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2007/02/26/drive-media-interest-at-a-trade-show/ Congrats to John Hawkins of Right Wing News on his new gig consulting for GOP Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter. Here are some details from RWN: On February 3, Nathan Tabor from TCV Media got in touch with me and asked if I'd be interested in consulting for the Duncan Hunter campaign. ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2007/02/17/john-hawkins-goes-to-work-for-duncan-hunter/ Ok thats a really bad joke, particularly after you read this great post from KT Cat: The skillet licking, namby-pamby mama's boys across the pond are finally standing up to the Islamists in their midsts. Yes, those smelly, haughty wieners with the moist, limp handshakes have found their spines. "This far ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2007/01/04/france-where-men-are-men-and-sheep-are-nervous/ That is what Salim Lone concludes in his International Herald Tribune Piece today: The best antidote to terrorism in Somalia is stability, which the Islamic Courts have provided. The Islamists have strong public support, which has grown in the face of U.S. and Ethiopian interventions. As in other Muslim-Western conflicts, the ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2006/12/26/islamists-are-good-for-somalia/ If you really want to know who we are fighting, if you haven't tuned out the daily developments in the war against world wide Islamofascism (a term one of the main sources of this piece takes issue with) then you have to read Knowing The Enemy in the New Yorker. ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2006/12/18/must-read-new-yorker-article/ At least it's new to me. It looks like Badger 6 a commander of an Army Reserve Engineer Company started blogging this past July just before his unit was deployed to Iraq. This is the post that brought his blog to my attention: Right now I don't even know how to feel. ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2006/12/07/new-milblog-badgers-forward/ BW Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. http://therealuglyamerican.com/2006/12/07/test/ check out the Random Yak who is organizing this for the 2nd year in a row. If you have a Christmas post be sure to trackback to the Yak. If you just want to feel all warm and runny inside check out the Yak's long list of links to some ... http://therealuglyamerican.com/2006/12/05/christmas-alliance-2006/