Fox News reports this evening that the Senate broke a three-month Republican hold over the nominee for the Labor Department solicitor: The Senate has voted to move forward with the nomination of New York’s state labor commissioner for the No. 3 post at the Labor Department despite GOP complaints about her qualifications. The 60-32 vote on Monday allows lawmakers to begin debate on the confirmation | Read More »
Then the angel said…”Fear not: for behod I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” – Luke 2:10-11 On this Christmas eve, let us remember our soldiers who are living away from family and friends, many in far off places | Read More »
Should the Senate maintain their 60 votes through this week and pass the current health care bill, we will have seen an historic event presaging the very end of the American experiment in a Constitutional federal republic comparable to the repeal of the 17th Amendment and other events that opened a hole in the Constitution to allow the growth of an all-powerful central government. Here | Read More »
According to a Fox News story today, the EPA is set as soon as tomorrow to “officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy”. And since every living being is an emission source for CO2, coming soon, mandatory CO2 scubbers for every American man, women, and newborn? Or perhaps breathing taxes – and meters so | Read More »
Update: Final tally – 111 for, 14 against, 3 did not vote (an 8:1 margin) This link also has some excerpts from the debate and La Gringa’s tribute. LaGringa needs to be commended for regularly posting from inside Honduras on what has been going on there, which has been especially helpful since our media have either parroted the leftists or supressed stories. The above link | Read More »
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 that Obama and the Democratic Congress would take us and instead trying to preserve and | Read More »
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 the Atlantic who has long been standing against the receeding tide of Britain’s cultural | Read More »
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 goal is unconscionable. We might as well turn our Department of Defense into the Department | Read More »
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 Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said Tuesday that people will be | Read More »
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 too many of us are starting to gloat and to prematurely declaring victory from | Read More »
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 with Roland D. Lebay in his Plymouth Fury! which immediately brought this question | Read More »
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 include the following: The American College of Surgeons is deeply disturbed over the uninformed public | Read More »
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 ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious effects. We | Read More »
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 New Order of the Ages, as our Great Seal commemorates, that has transformed the entire | Read More »
(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 twisted heart and perverted mind. So you now would claim to draw the line | Read More »
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 is almost all Western attempts to interpret our relations with the Arab world are | Read More »
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 holiday and this word are closely entwined. In our era, especially in [our | Read More »
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 our Washington D.C. overlords have pronounced “all over”, it is our duty to provide | Read More »
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 resolution. Sometimes through negotiation/give-and take, a consensus can emerge that a substantial majority find acceptable | Read More »
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 else. In practice the legislators divided the pie with the majority Democrats – they | Read More »
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