http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:26:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This started as a comment to dpayton's diary titled Obama Derangement Syndrome and expanded to the extent that I thought it better to write my own diary. As part of the RedState community, we all are to be on the same side in terms of opposing the policies and direction ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/10/20/discerning-between-apocalypse-and-obama-derangement-syndrome/ This began as a comment to LJ "Beaglescout" Miller's diary Central Concepts from David Cameron’s Speech to the Conservative Party, but I've since decided to expand it a bit more and make it a diary. Melanie Phillips is one of the most fearless and incisive conservative commentators on either side of ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/10/10/a-contrary-view-on-the-cameron-speech/ After reading the following story this morning on Fox News, I am left utterly dumbfounded that our general in charge of the Afghanistan campaign has to make such an appalling statement. How any military leader can in good conscience sacrifice the lives of our American soldiers for such a mission ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/09/27/us-military-strategy-for-afghanistan-goes-new-age/ Congressman Suggests People Will Don 'White Hoods' If Wilson Not Rebuked In fact, Rep. Johnson not only publicly called Rep. Wilson a racism supporter, but also raised the specter of the KKK rising again if Rep. Wilson is not punished sacrificed as propitiation to the gods. In an obvious reference to the ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/09/15/rep-hank-johnson-d-ga-plays-the-race-card-on-the-house-floor-against-joe-wilson/ I am astonished that given the forces arrayed against us that we have scattered the juggernaut that was ramming Obamacare down out throats and brought to the attention of the American public that there is serious opposition to further government control of our health care system. However, I am sensing that ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/09/09/the-democratic-counterattack-on-health-care-has-begun/ A little Friday afternoon diversion after a trying week on the political war front... BooBooKitten put up a Redhot post earlier today titled Hell on Wheels with the money quote from an article titled Nineteen Minutes in a Car with Harry Reid. She concluded with the following comment: I would rather ride ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/08/14/open-thread-on-harry-reid-and-contest-for-fun/ Looks like surgeons are starting to get a bit miffed with President Obama for his recent attacks on their profession and their integrity. The American College of Surgeons released late yesterday a press release titled Statement from the American College of Surgeons Regarding Recent Comments from President Obama. Key excerpts ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/08/13/major-surgeons-group-chides-obama-for-recent-statements/ A dramatization of the representatives of the 13 colonies voting on a resolution to approve a declaration of independence from the British Crown Excerpts from a letter from John Adams to his wife dated July 3, 1776, the evening before that fateful vote: Had a declaration of independence been made seven months ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/07/04/july-4-1776-the-die-is-cast-for-independence/ On July 4, 1776, history records the beginning of the great American experiment, when the leaders of the newly united States in America cast off the yoke of servitude to a despot and proclaimed to the world that we henceforth were to be a free nation - ushering in a ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/07/02/july-4-2009-the-day-when-lady-libertys-torch-is-extinguished-god-forbid/ (What follows is the publishable portion of my letter...) Mr. Letterman, you sure thought you were being slick Wednesday night by trying to redirect your vile attacks from Willow Palin to her older sister Bristol. But you know what, you only dug your hole deeper by revealing even more clearly your ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/06/14/open-letter-to-dave-letterman-from-an-aggrieved-parent-of-teenagers/ Many articles have been written concerning Obama's speech in Cairo in the past day since the speech was delivered, including some very insightful editorial commentary. Unfortunately, these interpretations analyses have fallen into the same trap that dominates the interactions of the U.S. and the West with the Arab world. That trap ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/06/05/analyses-to-date-of-obamas-speech-are-grievously-incomplete/ This is the Call to Worship that I delivered at our church yesterday. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On this Memorial Day weekend, I would like to speak a few words about patriotism, since this ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/05/25/memorial-day-2009-brief-reflection-on-patriotism/ Earlier today, Leon Wolf unveiled his proposal to end the waterboarding wars, titled “Safe, Legal and Rare” His post led to me examine what we should do in response "for the children". After all, since we can’t expect our children in today's modern world to subscribe to those traditional values that ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/05/05/expanding-on-leons-proposed-compromise/ The fundamental character of a representative democracy is that although disputes are inevitable, what holds the country together is not a uniformity of opinion, but rather a common commitment to a process in which all sides are able to participate in open debate through our representatives who work out a ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/04/29/at-tara-in-this-fateful-hourbuilding-a-foundation-for-a-party-unity-and-a-truce-in-our-divisions-over-social-issues/ This started as a comment to this diary, but expanded into diary length. In the years I was growing up (1950s and 1960s), Republicans had the image of being the party of country club, social registry, WASP establishment, using the government to promote big business perks at the cost of everyone ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/04/06/further-thoughts-about-rockefeller-republicans/ ...or any of the other Eastern bloc countries that were taken over by the Soviet army after WWII. How is what the Obama administration doing any different than nationalization - and by analogy to the title, disguising a take over of a (corporate) government by installing a puppet regime? If the news ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/03/30/gm-has-just-become-poland-under-the-ussr/ Funny that this never got mentioned during the campaign last fall, and even now it's the BBC that's brought this event to light. BBC reporter Ian Pannell, discussing the Nosedive in Afghan-US relations, traces the current woes back to a visit last year by Joe Biden to Afghanistan, during which ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/02/22/joe-biden-must-have-bought-his-diploma-license-at-sears/ News reports are that the California legislature will be called into session again today to pass a compendium of tax increases that will further cripple the California economy, plus some modest spending cuts to put lipstick on the pig. Apparently the leadership (both parties) are only one Republican vote in the ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/02/16/please-help-out-and-contact-california-republican-legislators-today/ With the grim news these past weeks culminating in yesterday's Friday the 13th Massacre, I though I'd share a tender story of unlikely love on this 14th of February. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/02/14/a-tale-for-valentines-day-2009/ I've been acquainted with this quote for quite a few years, now, but following the events surrounding the first several weeks of the Obama administration and his allies in Congress, culminating in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, for the first time I truly understand what the author ... http://www.redstate.com/civil_truth/2009/02/13/bipartisanship-is-another-word-for-date-rape/