http://www.redstate.com/brian_d Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:21:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The defenders of Association of Community Organizations (ACORN) are desperate and they have called upon their friends in Congress to deploy a last ditch effort to preserve the millions of your tax dollars given to ACORN every year.  Big Government web site broke the ACORN scandal showing video of two journalists posing ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/09/28/defunding-acorn-is-constitutional/ Sotomayor on "fundamental rights" and why average Americans have a different definition than judges.  Clearly most Americans view the 2nd Amendment individual right to own a firearm as a fundamental, natural right that the Constitution recognizes.  Sotomayor seems to assert a definition that defines your fundamental rights as those that ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/07/16/sotomayor-in-her-own-words/ Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, kicked off the hearings for President Obama's nominee, Sonia Sotomayor to be Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, with a very strong opening statement.   Sessions stated that repeated statements by 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sotomayor exhibiting empathy ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/07/13/senator-jeff-sessions-i-will-vote-no-if-sotomayor-is-not-fully-committed-to-fairness-and-impartiality/ Multi-trillion dollar Stimulus, Heath Care, Bailouts and Climate Change proposals have to be paid for some how.  EIther increased taxes, increased borrowing or a combination of the two are in the works by the Obama Administration and these initiatives will further constrict private enterprise.  Dan Mitchell tells Red State, "the White ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/06/22/dan-mitchell-of-cato-on-obamas-policies-of-spend-tax-spend-borrow-and-spend-more/ David Frum should take a hard look in the mirror if he wants to find the real culprit.  I was a supporter of President George W. Bush, yet the demise of the Republican Party started during the Bush years and Frum's former boss deserves a good portion of the blame.  President Bush ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/04/29/david-frum-blames-conservatives-for-specter-and-the-demise-of-republicans/ The left is marching against free market capitalism and it is the responsibility of all conservatives to take up verbal arms against the progressive troops lining up to trash free markets.  E.J Dionne, self proclaimed progressive, writes for the Washington Post today that there is something to the argument that Americans are ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/30/progressivism-socialisms-little-brother/ Rewarding failure is not just for Wall Street anymore.  Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has done such an uninspiring job over the past few weeks that many in Congress have called for his head.  Much like Wall Street where Washington, D.C. is rewarding failure with big bonuses and massive multi-billion dollar ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/24/tim-geithner-secretary-of-nationalization/ Last week I reported that a source on the Hill told me that Mikhail Gorbachev is speaking to the Senate Democrat Policy Committee. Reuters reports today that on last Friday, Gorby met with President Barack Obama. U.S. President Barack Obama has held talks with Mikhail Gorbachev, a spokesman for the former Soviet leader ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/23/gorby-working-democrats-last-week/ The House is debating HR 1586, a bill that would tax bonuses given to employees of bailed out businesses.  The bill would tax "90 percent of the TARP bonus received by the taxpayer."  The TARP recipient's employer must have received the money from "the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" (the TARP ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/19/the-obama-cya-act-of-2009/ A source on the Hill tells me that Mikhail Gorbachev is speaking to the Senate Democrat Policy Committee today.  No details on the topic. http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/17/gorby-on-the-hill/ Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) gave a great speech putting the AIG bonus issue in perspective today on the Senate floor. The bonuses for thousands of employees of AIG – the huge insurance company to which the government, the taxpayers of the United States, have shoveled $170 billion into to keep afloat ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/16/senator-jeff-sessions-on-aig-bailout/ Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, argues in Salon today that President Obama's brand of economics is "revolutionary."  Only an Ivy League educated lefty economist (i.e. - Keith Olbermann graduate of Cownell could not pull this one off) could have the intellectual gall to argue that the ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/16/obamanomics-revolutionary/ As a candidate for President, Senator Barack Obama told NPR that "he might use signing statements to clarify his position on an ambiguous law, he would not abuse signing statements to undermine the will of Congress."  President Obama yesterday used a signing statement on "dozens of provisions in a $410 ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/12/the-audacity-of-signing-statements/ The Senate Judiciary Committee is conducting a hearing today titled "Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry."  Dan McLaughlin has an excellent post on Red State and I am seeking to build on the argument that the purpose of this commission is not to set up a so ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/04/the-so-called-truth-commission/ Although Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) won a vote renouncing The Fairness Doctrine 87-11 last week (see the post for more details),  Senator Dick Durbin won a vote on a measure that has the potential to stifle free speech and destroy conservative talk radio on a 57-41 vote.  A Durbin Amendment to ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/03/03/dick-durbins-son-of-fairness-doctrine/ Kudos to Senators John Ensign (R-NV), John Thune (R-SD), Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) for using the bill to provide a vote in the House of Representatives to the District of Columbia to force votes today on expanding gun rights and trashing the idea of the federal government regulating ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/02/26/guns-and-the-fairness-doctrine/ The reviews are in on President Obama's Address to Congress and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's GOP Response.  The New York Times calls Obama's speech "Reaganesque exhortation to American resilience" and the consensus among my circle of friends is that Gov. Jindal did not do a great job of delivering his speech.  I ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/02/25/president-obama-v-governor-jindal-debating-the-proper-role-of-government/ Don't be fooled by President Obama's purported renunciation of the Fairness Doctrine last week.  The far left fully intends to use a new regulatory scheme, the Son of The Fairness Doctrine, to regulate conservative talk radio.  As Erick Erickson wrote last week on Red State, "Congress will restrict how many stations ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/02/23/son-of-the-fairness-doctrine/ Conservative-hating MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is known for attacking Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh (i.e. guys who crush Olbermann in the ratings) on a daily basis for a slip up or error these hosts may make from time to time.  Last night, Olbermann and Howard Dean were attacking five governors (there ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/02/20/keith-olbermann-go-back-to-espn/ President Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has recieved an F- for his handling of the Obama Public Relations effort by most objective observers.  Maybe President Obama should provide stimulus to Julio Osegueda who currently works at McDonalds in Florida and is a 19 year old student at Edison State College ... http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2009/02/12/robert-gibbs-may-have-some-competition/