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Posted at 10:05pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Standby . . .

By Erick

Cue the new site. Less than 50 minutes to go.

Consider this your final open thread on the present site.

[UPDATE 11:00] Momentary delay. We'll be transitioned very shortly. Keep standing by. . .

[UPDATE 12:13] We ran into a slight problem with a last minute compatibility issue. One more hour now.

[UPDATE 1:22 am] Had a glitch in program that doesn't affect any of you, but does affect all the front page contributors. IT is fixing that before launching the site, because it will affect server issues. Once that is done, the site goes live. I think I'm calling it a night.

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Posted at 12:22pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Tonight

By Erick

Four years ago on July 12th, RedState turned on the lights.

In August of 2006, we turned off scoop and turned on Drupal.

Tonight, between 10 - 11 p.m., we'll be turning off Drupal and turning on something new. Our official launch of RedState 3.0 will begin Monday and we have a lot of surprises in store for you.

Right now, the new site is at http://beta.redstate.com and your account works there.

If you have a space in your user name, you'll need to use the "_" in place of the space. Your password was transferred. If you are posting a diary here today, you might want to hop on over to the new site and post there too. Tonight, http://beta.redstate.com becomes http://www.redstate.com and this site goes to a read-only archive. Anything posted at the beta site today will transfer over as part of the new site tonight.

While I'm at it, let me extend a big thanks to Neil and Robert for their tremendously hard work under difficult and aggravating circumstances to get us here. Let me also thank Josh, Ben, Mike, Clayton, and everyone else here at RedState for one heck of a great four years.

It's been fun. I hope the new site will make it even more enjoyable and productive for all of us in the RedState Community.

See you tonight at the new site and, until then, I'll be hanging around here.

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Posted at 4:46pm on Jul. 9, 2008 Culberson is mad as hell about the prospect of losing his Twitter

By Ben Domenech

Following up on the Directors post on this issue, Rep. John Culberson is staying on top of the Congressional online authorization fallout, and sharing his outrage via his very active Twitter feed.

You can read the letter that started the whole process here, focused primarily on video content, but stretches to more than that, covering all content produced by members that appears on outside websites. As Culberson summarizes it: "my post would have to meet "existing content rules" and would need a disclaimer (140 characters at least!)"

This is just silly, people. A Congressman shouldn't have to put a disclaimer on YouTube: the American people know it's YouTube. They're not going to call up and say "How dare you link to some videotape of a dog on a skateboard! That's against the laws of nature! Dog on a skateboard - I swear, this whole planet's going to heck in a handbasket."

Let's hope the transparency groups like Sunlight and OpenCongress start talking about this...they've been disturbingly silent thus far.

Posted at 6:46am on Jul. 8, 2008 Yes, Dr. Phil--Going With My Inner Fascist IS Working For Me!

By demsformccain

It's becoming common knowledge that Obama supporters:

- send threatening emails to everyone who expresses the slightest doubt about the voracity of their precious one. (http://wilknetwork.com/Stop-The-Smears-And-The-Threats/2408982)

- use Google's anti-spam feature to shut down dissenting blogs. (JustSayNoDeal.com)

- fill their blog comments with expletives and epithets--usually along the lines of "you are so *ing dumb you don't *ing deserve to live...."

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Posted at 6:10pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Did Obama fans flag anti-Obama blogs as SPAM or did Google play politics in shutdown?

By KBDay

Owners of blogs affiliated with the anti-Obama movement Just Say No Deal are infuriated because their blogs were shut down by Google after the sites were identified as SPAM. It’s tempting to believe Google, whose political leanings are popularly interpreted as leftist, came up with a sly algorithm to shut the blogs down. But a more likely scenario is that pro-Obama types flagged the blogs by using the link on the Blogger site where the affected blogs were hosted. If your blog is flagged, you can be deprived of your journal posting privileges until Google checks out the accusation and restores your rights. The irony here is that the Just Say No Deal blogs are actually Democratic leaners. They're just Democrats who don't want Obama as their nominee.

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Posted at 5:18am on Jul. 2, 2008 I'd like to think we've earned at least their *B* team

By E Pluribus Unum

WHEN YOU PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL ON YOUR OWN DIARIES, THE TROLLS END UP LOOKING LIKE KLINK AND SHULTZ.

File under: we're slaughtering your C team | if you love us, send better trolls

I'll lead off with the moral to the story. We all like to shoot from the hip, wax eloquent and windy, and blow long and hard while beating up on the Democrats and other opponents. It's both fun and therapeutic. But remember, just like in kenpo, it all starts with the feet, and if your footwork ain't dead solid, then you got a whole bunch of nothing.

In short - facts, details, more facts, and more details. Do NOT make assertions that you do not specifically know to be true. Make excellence in your work a daily matter of pride.

The reasons for that are several. Jump with me...

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Posted at 11:54pm on Jun. 30, 2008 Obama Faked Birth Certificate--Revealing the Electronic Paper Trail

By demsformccain

Finally, the on-line shenanigans of the Daily Kos and the Obama campaign are catching up with them. Some online sleuths are getting to the truth over at NoQuarter. Here's the link:

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/28/daily-kos-an-obama-activist-and-...

Just when is this house of cards going to finally fall for the Democrats? So much for the ordained, selected Obamessiah.

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Posted at 12:00pm on Jun. 30, 2008 It is that time

By Erick

Friends,

Some time in the next week you are going to come to RedState and it will not look like this site.

It will look a heck of a lot better.

If you have not checked out http://beta.redstate.com you probably ought to.

Because sometime around this time next week, that site will replace this site.

You better go check it out.

Erick

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Posted at 6:55pm on Jun. 29, 2008 Please visit RightonNJ

By bmurphy

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Posted at 3:42pm on Jun. 29, 2008 Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform

By Warner Todd Huston

**UPDATE** BELOW FOLD

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

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Posted at 10:29pm on Jun. 28, 2008 WaPo After Free Republic Again, Now Over Barack-is-a-Muslim Email

By Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post published a June 28th piece geared to protect Barack Obama from the nagging rumors that he is a secret Muslim, rumors that have been circulating since 2004. The Post's Matthew Mosk penned an attack on Free Republic, based on an Obama flak who claims she has somehow discovered that Freepers are to blame, if not initially responsible, for floating the Barack-is-a-Muslim chain email that so many millions of Americans have found in their email boxes over the last four years. But, the Washington Post's article is so filled with assumptions and a singular desire not to really investigate the matter that it boggles the mind. Naturally, all the journalistic missteps serve to shield Barack Obama from any controversy and make all opposition seem nefarious or unhinged.

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Posted at 8:35am on Jun. 27, 2008 A Year At RedState

By NightTwister

It's hard to believe it's been a year now since I signed on at RedState. It's been a great ride. We've gone through a tough Presidential Primary campaign. Most of us here didn't end up with our preferred candidate. The good news is, we ended up with one with great character and conviction who loves his Country.

I want to take this opportunity to thank the Directors and Contributors. RedState is the great place that it is because of each and every one of you. I'm always challenged to improve the quality of what I write because of the standard that you set.

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Posted at 11:27am on Jun. 25, 2008 What for a Blog?

By Warner Todd Huston

Everyone is talking about the "importance" of blogging and wondering where it will all lead at least where it concerns the influence blogging might have on politics. There was even a warning that bloggers are facing oppression and arrest at an increasing rate in some despotic countries proving that blogging is already causing at least some ripples in the political waters about the world. There is no reason at all to assume this is a fluke or that these ripples will cease to radiate from bloggers any time soon. All in all, to many it seems blogging is a newfangled concern we all face.

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Posted at 2:20pm on Jun. 24, 2008 McCain vs. Obama and the internet?

By julian22

The liberal media is saying that Obama's campaign has mastered the internet. If that claim is true, does it say anything about his electability? Does it say anything about McCain's chances in November? The citizen news network nowpublic.com is running a story about these questions, and we need McCain supporters to get involved in the debate (http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/mccain-vs-obama-com).

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