…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 reports are accurate, the government has controlling funding for GM without which the | Read More »
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 he had a private meeting with Hamid Karzai. Employing the British talent for understatement, Mr. | Read More »
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 Senate from passing this. The fig leaf is that the tax increases will only | Read More »
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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In a city park stood a statue of a man and | Read More »
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 meant – because that exactly how they view it, as demonstrated by their actions. Here’s | Read More »
Do not be afraid, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. The Jewish nation was under the heel of a brutal occupation by Rome (and make no mistake about it, Rome’s era of dominance had one | Read More »
Some of those who have been following the Propostion 8 drama may be puzzled as to why the California Supreme Court is reviewing the legitimacy of a Constitutional amendment or what grounds that may have to do so. First, by taking this case now, the California Supreme Court avoids months or years of uncertainty as cases wend their way through the lower courts, since whatever | Read More »
Update: Tues 12 Nov 2008 Josh Painter has posted the Sarah Palin portion of the Leno interview. His opinion in a nutshell: Nothing to see here, move on She didn’t hurt my campaign – nothing out of the ordinary is going on with my campaign aides – I’m not going to ruffle any feathers that will disturb my comfortable position. My verdict: he’s lost his | Read More »
I spotted an allusion yesterday to a Ronald Reagan speech delivered in 1964 in support of Barry Goldwater. Unfortunately his message was not heeded that election, and one can trace a direct path from that time of choosing for the America to the time of choosing that voters face next Tuesday.
Glenn Beck has composed this new National Anthem for an Obama presidency. It’s all too easy to laugh and go on, not recognizing how close the historic evil that is being ridiculed here (Cult of Personality) is to resurrection, with the associated horrors that we have seen with past utopias that soon degenerate into tyranny.
[UPDATE] This is NOT an appeal for RedStaters to send contributions, in case there is any confusion, which Jaded’s comment below seems to indicate might be the case. Rather, this is an effort to mobilize RedStaters to call the candidate and demand that she spend the money she pledged to her supporters that she would spend. They’ve given time and put their reputations at stake; | Read More »
I have composed this article to try to articulate the danger to the future of our system of governance that we face should Obama win the Presidency along with an increased Democratic majority in Congress. My purpose is to motivate us more strongly as to the utter necessity to elect John McCain. Or failing that, in the battle for our country’s soul and heritage that | Read More »
Among the various interest groups supporting the campaign of Barack Obama (and increased Democratic Party control of Congress, one group that has largely managed to stay under the radar has been the trade-unionist movement in large part being spearheaded by Andrew Stern and his rapidly growing union, SEIU. In their most recent annual meeting, Mr. Stern emerged from the shadows and years of preparation to | Read More »
John McCain has a critical need to take control of the Obama/Biden attempt to hijack the meaning of “end a war” – one that Joe Biden again raised at the debate (and which Sarah, alas, did not take down). The myth is that the U.S. can simply decide to end a war by setting a 16-month deadline for removing troops. What we need to tell | Read More »
I’m on vacation and am borrowing a computer for this diary. I don’t know if the e-mail excerpted below got to McCain’s campaign, but listening to Susah Palin last night, especially her closing statement (I missed her opening), I did hear some of what I suggested, including her defense of American Exceptionaism and her mention of Obama leading to a sunset of American freedom. On | Read More »
I know that Leon has just written a strong defense of Hank Paulson. I highly respect Leon’s contributions here at RedState, but in this case, when I step back a bit and review the whole drama around this Mother of All Bailouts™, I see Mr. Paulson at several key steps taking actions that directly and selectively have harmed John McCain’s standing as a candidate, an | Read More »
House Defeats Wall Street Bailout Bill Watching donkeys and elephants trying to cohabitate would be high comedy indeed, if it weren’t that we’re at severe risk of getting crushed by the flailing limbs during their mating dance. But thankfully we aren’t getting screwed, at least not today…
This diary was inspired by gamecock’s recent post Republicans purge Paulson-Pelosi bailout of most onerous Obamanations. What started as a comment mushroomed until it became clear that a diary was needed. I would agree that the House Republicans with McCain’s bakcing got the best bill they could, given the other forces involved. Nonetheless, it’s not clear to us that on its merits that this is | Read More »
It’s urgently time to remember what it was that swept America off their feet when they first met Sarah. And what above everything was that great attraction: it is Sarah’s infectious JOY that just gushes out of her everywhere she goes. This is what distinguishes here from almost every other politician today, and what so deeply touched the heart of America and draws people.
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