http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:10:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From my own experience, I can tell you all what a great opportunity Chicago has missed out on. In 1983 Caracas, Venezuela hosted the Pan American Games. Like Chicago, Caracas had an over abundant supply of poor people and a shortage of quality housing. Voila! The Pan American Games ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/10/02/chicago-has-missed-out-on-a-great-opportunity/ Originally published at The Minority Report Or Why We Want To Keep Al-Qaeda Terrorists Out Of American Prisons Prison systems around the world have become a breeding ground for radical Islam -- a place of recruitment for Jihad. Last week, once again this danger was brought home with the arrest of Talib ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/09/28/the-danger-we-face-from-prison-converts-to-radical-islam/ Originally posted at The Minority Report It has been said by a number of people that 2008 was the year that Journalism died. Actually Journalism has been on life support for more than two decades, it is just that in 2008 the corpse was finally declared brain dead. We have all heard ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/09/01/who-will-write-the-history-books-of-the-future/ Originally published at The Minority Report Whether the subject is Nationalized Healthcare, Cap and Trade, The Employee Free Choice Act, The Fairness Doctrine or government bailouts of the banking and automobile industry, the debate in this country today seems centered around individual liberty versus control by the Federal Government. The question appears ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/08/29/there-is-no-second-place-for-freedom/ Originally Published at The Minority Report While I feel certain that actor Tim Robbins is equally as dissatisfied with the erosion of personal liberties under the Obama Administration as he was under the Bush Administration, he has not been afforded the opportunity to express those concerns before a national audience. That ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/08/09/a-chill-wind-is-blowing-through-this-nation/ More complete article at The Minority Report Nobody else here at Redstate seems to be reporting this: This weekend an Alaska rag blog made national headlines by promoting a story that former Governor Sarah Palin and her husband Todd were contemplating divorce. As any propagandist will tell you, once the lie become ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/08/02/is-anonymous-blogger-spreading-lies-about-sarah-palin-kindergarten-teacher-jesse-griffin/ Originally Published at The Minority Report Roosevelt Policies Prolonged The Depression -- Is History Repeating? As the Dow Jones Industrial average plummeted following last November's presidential election, the new Obama Administration told us that stock market gyrations were unimportant, and not indicative of the nation's economic health. "What I'm looking at is not ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/08/02/dow-soars-but-the-recession-is-not-over-obama-repeats-failures-of-the-new-deal/ Trumped Up Charges In A Kangaroo Court TEHRAN- The government of Iran began trials today on high profile dissidents who questioned the legitimacy of the presidential election of June 12. Among those charged are former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh, former lawmakers Mohsen Mirdamadi, Behzad Nabavi and Mohsen Safaei-Farahani, Mohammad Ali ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/08/01/iran-puts-high-profile-dissidents-on-trial/ Facebook Censors Anti-Pelosi Page For Ideological Reasons When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/07/25/facebook-fascism/ Originally Published at The Minority Report The latest polls... First of all, let me interject the fact that I despise polls! Polls are nothing more than a lazy way of trying to manipulate public opinion by "reporting" the answers that other people have given to a question that might or might not ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/07/11/were-not-democrats-rallying-cry-for-those-who-fail-to-understand-leadership/ When HWSNBN had Bots crawling all across the internet spamming websites like Redstate, the management of this site placed a ban on all mention of HWSNBN for six months. What we have here is a unique Bot situation.  We have the Pro-Bots crawling all over the internet promoting SWSNBN as a ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/07/08/redstate-has-become-bot-central-we-need-a-moratorium/ Originally Published at The Minority Report "The soft sophistry of low absolutism" Over at Redstate, a Moe Lane Redhot - "Line of the day, Reason Hit & Run edition" caught my eye. In that blurb, Matt Welch of Reason, in the words of Moe "eviscerates" a piece written by Ezra Klein at ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/07/08/state-run-media-and-independent-thought/ Originally Published at The Minority Report Our founding fathers were distrustful, and rightly so, of a strong centralized government, far from the control of the citizens, running roughshod over the rights of the individual. “Taxation without Representation” was more than just revolutionary rhetoric, but a founding principle on which local control of ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/07/05/have-we-become-the-people-our-founding-fathers-warned-us-about/ Originally Published at The Minority Report Cleaning up the effluvia and detritus** left by Democrats Anyone who has ever listened to Dr Laura Schlessinger knows what it means when she asks the question, "Is this the hill you are prepared to die on?" The question asks if this issue is so important ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/29/congressman-is-this-the-hill-you-are-prepared-to-die-on/ Originally Published at The Minority Report Presidente For Life Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales -- Not So Fast Jose The people of Honduras have overthrown the former president Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, and his attempt to amend the Constitution of Honduras to allow him to remain as president for life. Zelaya, with his close ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/28/president-obama-demonstrates-moral-courage-in-honduran-coup/ Originally Published At The Minority Report   The inflamed passions of the Iranian people -- rising up in rebellious protests against the repressive Mullahcracy that has ruled their country with an iron boot -- can be laid at the feet of just one man. Former President George W Bush. Eight short years ago Afghanistan ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/20/blame-it-all-on-george-w-bush/ Originally Published at The Minority Report It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. The results of the past weekend have coalesced the thoughts in my mind of the similarities and the differences between "democracy" in Iran and the United States. Last weekend, as Iranian citizens took to ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/17/democracy-in-iran-and-the-united-states/ This came in today's mailbox -- perhaps you already read about Ed Freeman, but the MSM managed to miss the story. You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is out ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/15/a-tribute-to-a-medal-of-honor-winner/ Originally published at The Minority Report TARP! Federal government takeover of the banking industry! Cap-and-Trade! Stimulus Spending Bill! Automobile company bailout and takeover by the federal government! Employee Free Choice Act! ACORN criminal activity! Fairness Doctrine! Omnibus Spending Bill! Universal Nationalized Health Care! Federal government regulation of the internet! Defense spending ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/15/overwhelmed-and-feeling-like-giving-up-that-is-what-the-left-wants-you-to-do/ Originally Published at The Minority Report from Lord Vegas by Ima Tuele Misinformation Service New York Times The controversy surrounding the Iranian election results that have declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a landslide victor can be traced back to the purchase in 2008 of 10,000 touch screen voting machines by the Iranian government from Premier Election ... http://www.redstate.com/david_hinz/2009/06/15/iranian-election-controversy-connected-to-diebold/