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On The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe. A political ideology may usefully be defined as a structure of interdependent ideas. It is like a building: if you can falsify the foundational notions in critiquing it, the whole structure will collapse. Readers already comfortable with the political leanings and beliefs of Alan Wolfe, a political scientist at Boston College, will enjoy The Future of Liberalism because it will make them feel—especially since the election of Barack Obama—that they are safely ensconced on the cozy side of history.[1] His critics—I am one—will appreciate the book because it is rare to find...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The recent bailout of Wall Street is just one of many issues separating longtime U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller from his Republican challenger Jay Wolfe. The two have squared off before, as Wolfe, 53, of Salem, failed in his bid for Rockefeller's seat in 2002. Rockefeller won by a 26-point margin. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll shows Rockefeller ahead 61 percent to 33 percent. Wolfe said he would have opposed the financial rescue package and called it a "Welfare for Wall Street scheme that was flawed from conception." "For our nation to borrow more money, increasing our national...

FAIRMONT — Marion County Republicans will open their campaign headquarters at 201 Adams St. in downtown Fairmont on Monday, said Andrew Sabak. And the county GOP’s annual Reagan Dinner is set for Oct. 16 at Muriale’s Restaurant and Banquet Center, said Sabak. He is the chairman of the Marion County Republican Executive Committee. “Everyone who is interested in any of the Republican candidates for office on the November ballot is welcome to drop in and see our campaign headquarters,” Sabak said. The new office will be open from 3 p.m.-7 p.m. on Monday. Operating hours will gradually be expanded as...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Republican congressional candidate Jay Wolfe, a businessman and former state senator from Harrison County, told Gazette editors Friday that he's been trying to get his opponent, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, to agree to a public debate this fall, without success. Wolfe said Rockefeller also wouldn't debate him when the two ran against each other six years ago. Rockefeller won his third term in the 2002 election. "He wouldn't debate me six years ago. I sent him a letter asking him to debate [this year], but I have not received an answer." Wolfe has long been an opponent...

MARTINSBURG - A born-again Christian who is running for the U.S. Senate spoke to area Republican groups Thursday about key issues in his campaign, including abortion. In his speech Thursday night, Jay Wolfe borrowed a phrase that former President John Adams used to describe slavery in order to describe his stance on abortion. "Abortion is an evil of colossal magnitude and it needs to be corrected," Wolfe said. The Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate is running in November's general election against current U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. Wolfe spoke to members of the Berkeley County Republican Club and the...

Here is the latest campaign ad from Jay Wolfe. He is running a grassroots campaign to oust Jay Rockefeller. Jay Rockefeller - No Oil for You  

21 billboards erected. Goal is one in all 55 counties. August 11 2008Clarksburg, WV – Jay Wolfe’s campaign has erected billboards that strike at the very heart of the most important issue of this election - high gasoline prices. The culprits are those, like Senator Rockefeller, in Congress who have consistently blocked Americans from drilling for oil in ANWR, the Pacific, the Atlantic and for shale oil in states like Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. “After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Rockefeller expects us to believe he favors energy independence from our reliance on foreign oil. Yet, he...

Liberal Democrats are closer than ever to wrecking our economy, destroying traditional family values and shredding our liberties. Republicans need only two seats to win back the majority in the U.S. Senate. This year, we are guaranteed that an extreme liberal Democrat will be running for President. I believe West Virginia Republicans and Democrats alike will be electing a Republican for President, just like they did in 2000 and 2004. In 2002, I was Senator Rockefeller’s opponent and came within 13% of defeating him and he outspent me 20 to 1. That year, there were no Presidential coattails to help...

In 1984, when moved to Bridgeport with an insurance job, Jay and Mollie both registered for the first time as Republicans because of their pro-life convictions and knowing the pro-abortion political platform of the Democrat Party. Jay has since grown to be both socially and fiscally conservative. Jay Wolfe served four years in the West Virginia State Senate from 1987 through 1990, served on the Harrison County and State Republican Executive Committees, was the 1988 Republican U.S. Senate nominee against Robert Byrd and the 2002 Republican U.S. Senate nominee against Jay Rockefeller. When asked why he keeps going after Rockefeller’s...

The wit of Oscar Wilde is often more clever than insightful, but when he declared that “one’s first duty in life is to assume a pose”, he may have been on to something: clothes don’t just make the man; they can, if unchanging in style and sufficiently de trop, make him look ageless. This, at least, is the impression left by Tom Wolfe as he blazes through the culinary empyrean of Café Boulud on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, trailing dash and élan among the stolidly well-heeled and sourly superannuated diners. The writer who pioneered reporting with the intensity of literature,...

News Flash to all Freepers reading Tom Wolfe’s “I am Charlotte Simmons”: I can personally attest that the story of the “Governor of California” represented in the book, who receives oral sex from a college undergrad coed, is based on a true story. The true governor was the Governor of Arkansas, and the year was 1988 (yes, him!). The event was not a Commencement, with the governor-as-commencement-speaker, as represented in the book: in reality, it was at Washington and Lee University’s quadrennial “Mock Convention”: it was a mock Democratic Convention, and Clinton was here as a speaker. It occurred not...

Tom Wolfe’s best-selling novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" has focused unwanted attention—unwanted at least by college officials—on the sexual antics of American college students. The behavior is scandalous, but an even greater scandal is what students are being taught. This mis-education is the subject of a new book by former BreakPoint editor James Nelson Black. In Freefall of the American University, Black describes how “colleges and universities are corrupting the minds and morals of the next generation.” That’s quite an indictment, but Freefall will leave any open-minded reader realizing that the evidence supports it. As Black puts it, “the university...

Tom Wolfe, novelist and perceptive chronicler of all things cultural, is the author scheduled for December's edition of C-Span's first-Sunday-of-the-month "In-Depth", set for tomorrow between noon and 3:00 PM EST. Wolfe will be discussing his works and responding to call-ins and e-mails. Should be an engrossing and entertaining three hours.....

OP-ED COLUMNIST It's easy to write a negative review of a Tom Wolfe novel; hundreds of people do it every few years. First, out of the thousands of sociological details Wolfe gets right, you pick out some he gets wrong (thus establishing your superior hipness). You mention that he obsesses over the superficial details of life while you ignore his moral intent (thus hinting at your own superior depth). Then you graciously allow that many of Wolfe's scenes are hilarious, while lamenting that his characters are not fully developed. Then you call it a day. But since Wolfe takes risks...

Tom Wolfe on the elite that got lost in middle America Over the past few days I’ve talked to lots of journalists and literary types in New York. I’ve grown used to the sound of crushed, hushed voices on the end of the phone. The weight of George Bush’s victory seems almost too much. But what did they expect, I ask myself. They don’t like the war and the way the war is going, they don’t like Bush and they don’t like what this election says about America. But where’s their sense of reality? The liberal elite showed it was...

As a member of the Manhattan intelligentsia, novelist Tom Wolfe seems a lonely defender of George Bush's conservative values. But, he tells Ed Vulliamy, he's bewildered by a sex-mad society and tired of being lectured to at dinner parties. So is he voting for Dubya tomorrow? He's not quite telling Tom Wolfe casts his gaze across America at this election time, with eyes that change mood in a nanosecond, with a flicker. For the most part, they exude an amused elegance befitting the hallmark white suit and dandy-ish two-tone brogues. But then the look suddenly changes, to become scalpel-sharp, mischievous,...

Now that I have your attention....It's late, and one last post. I came across this article tonight. It's an absolute puker! This could be the most scarry look into the female liberal mind, and what actually goes on in there! Here's the link: http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/columns/thesexes/9911/ On a completely seperate note, Naomi Wolf has been officialy named Naomi Fox around my house. Too bad she's on the dark side!

(IsraelNN.com) Adi Mintz, the Director General of the Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) Council has released an open letter sent today to US Middle East envoy John Wolfe regarding the outposts and other Yesha communities. The full text of the letter is as follows: 9 Tammuz 5763 July 9, 2003 Mr. John Wolfe Representative, U.S. Government Dear Mr. Wolfe, I wish to bring to your attention that the demands made by your government to evacuate "outpost communities" in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) are unjustified, immoral and detrimental to the war against terror. The State of Israel legally inhabits Yesha....

CLARKSBURG -- About 200 Republican Party supporters attended the annual Lincoln Day fund-raising dinner Saturday night in Clarksburg. It was the first time in several years the fund-raiser had been in Clarksburg, said Dick Laughlin, chair of the Harrison County Republican Executive Committee. Laughlin and other GOP officials were encouraged by the heavy attendance Saturday. The event sold out. "The Republican Party is back and kicking again in Harrison County," Laughlin said. The dinner's guest speaker, former Gov. Arch Moore, agreed. Moore noted the GOP has made several advances in the last few elections, both statewide and nationally. The party...

Poll puts incumbent in the lead Wolfe says he still plans on beating Rockefeller Nov. 5 Deanna Wrenn Daily Mail Capitol reporter Tuesday October 29, 2002; 10:30 AM Despite numbers reflecting a giant lead for Sen. Jay Rockefeller, challenger Jay Wolfe says he thinks he's close and that he can win. The West Virginia Poll, a survey of 400 likely voters in the state released today, shows that 72 percent would vote for Rockefeller, D-W.Va. Seventeen percent said they would vote for Republican Wolfe, and 12 percent were still undecided. Wolfe thinks the race is much closer. "I haven't put...

I have been trying to find polls on the West Virginia Senate race between Jay Wolfe and Rockefeller. Most forecasters predict an easy victory for Rockefeller, but with West Virginia going to Bush, it would seem like a Republican would have a shot. So if you have any data out there, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! President Bush will be visiting the Mountain State on Halloween Thursday, October 31st to stump for Shelley Moore Capito (WV-2) and U.S. Senate candidate (& FREEPER) http://www.jaywolfe.net. Click here for previous thread The following article is from last Thursday. However, it was confirmed yesterday that President Bush WILL DEFINITELY be here. I'll post the Martinsburg Journal article stating so tomorrow when it goes online.

OK Freepers residing in or near the Mountain State (that's West Virginia for those of you in Rio Lindo) - KEEP YOUR CALENDARS OPEN for next Friday, November 1st. This is BIG, BIG, BIG - so big that my source has told me not to reveal any more, but you can imagine. I do not have the details of time-of-day or specific place yet, but will report them here as soon as they become available. MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!! Go into work tomorrow and ask for next Friday off. Trust me! Gas up the car/SUV/pick'emup and be ready to go.

Wolfe challenging Rockefeller in race for U.S. Senate seat by Nora Edinger REGIONAL EDITOR CLARKSBURG -- Jay Rockefeller and Jay Wolfe have at least two things in common beyond their first names. They both want to be West Virginia's junior U.S. Senator for the next six years and they both have strong political opinions. It's where the latter diverges that turned what might have been an uncontested run for the incumbent Rockefeller into a race, however. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., of Charleston, is a member of one of the nation's wealthiest and most prominent families. A state- and national-level politician for West...

As many of you know, I am in West Virginia serving as campaign manager for our fellow FReeper Jay Wolfe, who is the Republican nominee for the the U.S. Senate in this great State. Over the last two months, with very scant resources, we have managed to build the most incredible grassroots organization West Virginians have ever seen. With a hair over a month to go until Election Day, we are far more advanced organizationally out in the counties than at this stage in 2000...and as I'm sure you will remember, President Bush won here while expending very little in...

I have two Simon for Governor (CA) and one Wolfe for Senator (West VA) bumper stickers. Since I don't (or rarely) drive where they will do those candidates any good, the stickers are yours if you freepmail me with a mailing address.

Let's FREEP Rockefeller! Just heard tonight (from a reliable source at the Eastern Panhandle Friends of NRA Dinner) that Rockefeller will be holding a fundraiser (yeah, like he really needs it) next Monday evening, July 22, at the Purple Iris Restaurant in Martinsburg, WV. I'm not sure of the exact time yet, but am guessing it begins around 6pm. The Purple Iris is on Rt. 11 just south of Martinsburg I-81 exit 12. Martinsburg is approx 2 hours west of DC. I can be there again with the truck and 16-foot WOLFE sign:Click here to read about previous Rockef***er FReep

Jay Wolfe (Freeper #60,000 and Republican U.S. Senate Candidate) will be in the Ripley, West Virginia Independence Day parade tomorrow with President Bush! Congresswoman Capito and her 'Rat opponent Jim Humphreys as well as Jay's opponent Sinator Rockef***ker will be there too. 80,000 are expected to be in attendance. If anyone wants to join him, "WOLFE" T-shirts, caps, and signs will be provided. Meet at 11am near the Ripley High School to line up. You'll see the WOLFE crowd. (take the Fairplain exit off 177 into Ripley).

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This post is not a solicitation for funds, but rather a report of West Virginian Freeper #60000, Jay Wolfe's successful meetings this week with various Conservative groups in Washington, DC. If you wish to contribute to or get involved with this Freeper's campaign for the U.S. Senate, Jim Robinson has requested that no solicitations for funds be made from this thread. As such, the previous thread was deleted. Appologies to anyone I pinged with this now bad link. However, whatever you come across and do per Mr. Wolfe's website, http://www.jaywolfe.net (please cut and paste or copy this URL...

It is with great pleasure that I announce to my Freeper Friends that I won the primary election last week in West Virginia. So, in WV it is the Right Jay against the Left Jay. Any Freepers looking for a good place to spend their summer vacation and help us defeat Jay Rockefeller, come on out. I'll be in DC the next couple of days trying to raise a little money. If you know of a conservative PAC that might want to help, please let me know at jaywolfe@iolinc.net. You can check out my new web site at www.jaywolfe.net. Best...

RETIRE ROCKEFELLER! JAY WOLFE for U.S. Senate Well, it almost didn't happen. This whole Freep idea came about Friday afternoon after I got home and saw an article in the local (toilet) paper that both Rockefeller AND Byrdropping were speaking at a nearby GM plant the next day. I called everyone I knew and FReepmailed y'all and posted an emergency FReep notice (click here) but no one was available. I still had two people left on my phone list but kept getting busy signals and hoped to try again in the morning. Then, I got a call in the middle...

I know this is short notice (was just in today's paper), but BOTH Rockefeller AND Byrdropping will be here in eastern West Virginia at the GM plant tomorrow (Saturday, May 18). All the union and management employees will be there. This is about 2 1/2 hours from DC in Martinsburg right off of I-81. Just this Tuesday, Jay Wolfe won the Republican nomination to face Rockefeller. (added fun: he ran against Byrd in '88). We have a huge 4'x16' sign (with 3 foot lettering) that can be propped-up against a pickup on the roadside a safe distance outside the plant...

PLEASE FREEP this Poll!!! U.S. Senate candidate Jay Wolfe is neck-and-neck with liberal Rockefeller. This poll is being conducted by WAJR Radio, AM 1440 - Morgantown. Current Standings: 1.) John D. Rockefeller 103 votes 44% 2.) Jay Wolfe 101 votes 43% 3.) Hiram Lewis 31 votes 13%

Dear Friends, Good news - I received the Charleston Daily Mail endorsement on Friday. We are planning a victory reception for Tuesday evening, May 14th, election night, in Charleston at the Holiday Inn Charleston House. Final plans will be forwarded to you later, but will probably be from 8 to 11 PM. I sure would like to see you there. By the way, a couple friends informed me this weekend of a web page in Morgantown that is doing an election poll. It is sponsored by WAJR Radio. They did not have me listed until today. So, could you...