Elections Have Consequences

by Night Twister | 1:32 pm, May 10, 2010

Below is an actual letter sent out last week to the employees of a company doing business in Colorado. It is presented without comment. The names of the company and the individuals have been redacted.
Staff:
When people say elections don’t matter, that their vote doesn’t count, and that they cannot make a difference – [...]

Look for Me at Mount Virtus

by Night Twister | 10:31 pm, April 25, 2010

Because I don’t have time to post regularly, I’ve decided to put my own blog on hold for awhile. It will remain up so you can view previous diaries, but I won’t be posting new content here any more, at least not for a long time. My friend and fellow blogger Ben Degrow [...]

The Colorado Senate Race

by Night Twister | 10:03 pm, April 25, 2010

Editor’s note: Please welcome RMA and PPC blogger Night Twister from his original blogging home to his new digs as a guest blogger at Mount Virtus. Look for occasional contributions from him to help make up for my low blogging output, due to extra busy-ness of late.
After reading this , this, and especially this by [...]

Responding to Peace Action West

by Night Twister | 6:10 pm, February 1, 2010

Peace Action West responded to Diggs Brown’s response to the a survey about foreign policy that I wrote a diary about last week. Their response is so full of logical fallacies that it would take a month to deconstruct. Most of it is an appeal to authority of a list of dubious foreign [...]

Straight Talk

by Night Twister | 8:42 pm, January 29, 2010

Have you ever wished a political candidate would dispense with the usual evasive answers and speaking, but never really saying anything? I found a candidate that has done just that. Diggs Brown was sent a survey by Peace Action West, a liberal peacenik group. Here are some partial excerpts from Brown’s response:
Do [...]

The Inevitable Result of Feigning Fiscal Conservatism

by Night Twister | 9:29 am, January 11, 2010

Betsy Markey (D, CO-4) has been working hard lately to convince the voters in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District that she is a fiscal conservative. So hard, in fact, that she claimed to have voted against the TARP funding bill even before she took office (listen here for yourself).
Umm, I voted against the TARP funding, umm, [...]

Night Twister on the Radio [Updated]

by Night Twister | 10:10 am, January 4, 2010

Update: The audio has been posted at KFKA 1310’s website.
I’ll be on the Amy Oliver Show on KFKA 1310 this morning at 10:00am MST to talk about my Colorado Political Analysis: 2010 blog that I posted at RedState last week. If you’re in the local area please tune in. For those of [...]

Colorado Political Analysis

by Night Twister | 9:56 pm, December 28, 2009

I was asked to write a political analysis diary of Colorado for the 2010 election cycle at RedState.com. With the help of the good folks at Peoples Press Collective and Rocky Mountain Alliance of Blogs (without their knowledge, of course), I put together a rundown of the major races next year.
This is my own [...]

Diggs Brown Joins CO-4 Race

by Night Twister | 8:05 am, November 17, 2009

Diggs Brown formally announced his candidacy for the Fourth Congressional District of Colorado at the Best Western Hotel in Loveland Colorado on Saturday, Nov. 16th. Many in the district have been waiting for Diggs to return from his tour in the Army and announce his candidacy. There was a good turnout at the [...]

Candidate Search 2010 Interviews

by Night Twister | 2:15 pm, November 15, 2009

I’m here at the Budweister Event Center in Loveland, CO for Candidate Search 2010. I was going to summarize the points of each of the candidates, but things went too fast and furious and I didn’t have the full text of the questions beforehand. Therefore, I’ve decided to just post some of my [...]

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