http://www.redstate.com/ausonius Just another RedState: Conservative News and Community weblog Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The popular culture sometimes gives signals about a society's trends: apocalyptic movies appear during times of stress, like right now with the War On Terror. Tonight the premiere of a new version of a science-fiction series from over 20 years ago on ABC (?!!!?) contains elements of satirical criticism against the ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/11/03/the-premiere-of-v-on-abc-november-3rd-the-first-major-crack-in-msm-obamamania/ Several newspaper articles reporting the demise of Columbus Day celebrations throughout the nation had one common theme: the mirthless, mindless, iron-fisted stupidity of political correctness dominating our country.  Even here in Columbus, Ohio, there has been no Columbus Day parade for a decade. Why?  Christopher Columbus is not allowed to be ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/10/12/leftist-history-and-the-death-of-columbus-day/ The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman empire, existed in a slowly shrinking form between the 400's A.D. down to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.  For roughly 1,000 years this basically medieval Greek empire attempted to survive the attacks of Slavs,  Arabs, Crusaders, and Turks, and did ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/10/06/on-the-brink-russias-byzantine-diplomacy-on-iran/ You might recall the NObama moment when he decided to interfere in the arrest of Henry Gates, his professor friend who was arrested for bad-mouthing a policeman, when a neighbor thought that somebody was breaking into Gates' house.  It turned out that Gates himself had broken into his house because ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/10/03/murder-in-chicago-vs-henry-gates-the-silence-and-the-fury-from-the-white-house/ If the present resident of the White House really were a centrist, and not a leftist radical, if he were really interested in bringing people together, if he were really interested in working with "the other side" (whether you define them as Conservatives or Republicans), one thing is clear: on ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/09/15/proof-of-nobamas-arrogance-the-hegira-to-minnesota/ Spain turned to complete socialism in the middle of the decade, you might recall, after being hit with train bombs by Islamo-Fascists right before the election of 2004.  The socialists claimed that Spain was at risk because of its support for the War On Terror, and that if Spain withdrew ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/09/11/the-disaster-of-spanish-socialism-nobamas-future-for-america/ Recently several of my more talented 8th Graders were doing reports for "Current Events" in Social Studies. (I teach them Latin.) They wanted to know why the Republicans were not actively - key word, actively - promoting their message, especially on Health Care. They knew some rudimentary things about ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/09/08/why-8th-graders-could-run-the-gop-more-effectively/ I have been wondering for a few weeks about Hillary Clinton and what she - and Billy Jeff - might be thinking when they see NObama's numbers attracted by the increasing gravity of discontent. An article about her campaign fund still having several million dollars in it also hit ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/09/07/hillary-clinton-for-president-2012-and-the-gravity-of-discontent/ RedStaters know that Communist theory, along with any totalitarian theory of control, involves early control of the mass media, with the idea being that control of the "masses" is thereby facilitated, if you control what they see and hear. We already know about the bias of the MSM toward leftist politics. What ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/08/27/beck-rush-and-the-war-on-freedom-of-the-pressspeech-real-or-hyperbole/ As of 9:00 this morning (Aug. 17th) Drudgereport is carrying a news item saying the White House is willing to eliminate the "public option" and enrage the Howard-Dean Left to pass some kind of health care reform. Beware! Number One: Why would we want to give NObama any kind of appearance ... http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/2009/08/17/no-prisoners-why-any-health-care-compromise-is-dangerous/