I Have No Sympathy for Gary Stein
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 11th at 11:59 AM |
Gary Stein is an active duty Marine who has taken to Facebook to complain about President Obama. He’s apparently come to RedState too, including ending one post with “NoBama 2012.” As you can see by the comments he didn’t get the reception here that he thought he’d get. I’m a bit appalled by the conservatives who have decided to rally around this guy. Were he | Read More »
Morning Briefing for April 11, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 11th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing April 11, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. Happy Birthday, Liefje. 1. It Was Inevitable. Now Bring on President Both Ways 2. The Left, the Media and Plans to Destroy Scott Walker 3. Left not all that interested in free speech or tolerance 4. Why Ozzie Matters
It Was Inevitable. Now Bring on President Both Ways
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 10th at 02:36 PM |
Believe it or not, I’ve only been up for about thirty minutes. I’m under the weather today. I would still be asleep except my CNN Alerts on my iPad went nuts. Turns out Rick Santorum is out of the race. It was inevitable. Mitt Romney’s campaign has used a money advantage to shut out the competition. As I said when he won Ohio, Romney will | Read More »
A Self-Inflicted Hubris Shot to the Head
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 10th at 04:46 AM |
Mike Wallace is dead. Growing up, I’d spend the summer away from Dubai at my grandparents’ home in Louisiana. Sunday nights were back to back Murder She Wrote and 60 Minutes. Many conservatives would accuse Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes of a liberal view point and shading stories to match their world view. Growing up, 60 Minutes was, to me, journalism done right. They asked | Read More »
Morning Briefing for April 10, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 10th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing April 10, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. A Self-Inflicted Hubris Shot to the Head 2. Right-To-Work Is Right For Ohio (and Elsewhere) 3. Jason Altmire (D, PA-04): pro-life? Pro-choice? Try ‘pro-keeping his seat.’
Morning Briefing for April 9, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 9th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing April 9, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. Happy Birthday, Gretchen. 1. From Hope to Hopelessness: Obama’s Economy Has 88 Million “Not In Labor Force” 2. Democratic National Convention to be lobbyist/corporate funded, after all. 3. Fracking is Blamed for … Well, Everything, Really. 4. Katie Pavlich Takes on Fast and Furious
Easter 2012: He Lives
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 8th at 06:00 AM |
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and | Read More »
In The Grave
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 7th at 04:45 AM |
H/t to Ben Domenech for this excellent quote: “In perfect freedom, the Son become the goat become the Lamb of God is condemned by the lie in order to bear witness to the truth. The truth is that we are incapable of setting things right. The truth is that the more we try to set things right, the more we compound our guilt. It is | Read More »
An Invitation to Tune In on Good Friday
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 6th at 05:08 PM |
As regular readers know, I have a political talk show on WSB Radio out of Atlanta each weeknight from 6pm to 9pm. It’s the nation’s largest talk radio station and I figure if I have to work on Good Friday, I might as well use the platform well. So each Good Friday night, we play the music a bit longer, actually play the words, and | Read More »
Augusta National
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 6th at 04:56 PM |
I am not a member of Augusta National and I’m pretty terrible at golf, though getting better. I have a net in the back and relaxation involves beer and hitting golf balls. Nonetheless, the left is absurdly irate that I or anyone else would dare say I have no problem with Augusta National being an exclusively male golf club. They’re also laughing that I said | Read More »
On Faith This Good Friday
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 6th at 11:00 AM |
There have been a number of times throughout my life that I have encountered God’s blessings, his mercy, and his discipline. When I was little, I sat in my grandmother’s lap hearing stories of Daniel in the Lion’s Den. When I was a teenager, I could see God working in my life. When I was in college, I could feel his call. When I got | Read More »
Good Friday 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 6th at 04:45 AM |
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there; And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. . . . . Now from | Read More »
Katie Pavlich Takes on Fast and Furious
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 5th at 12:22 PM |
Our sister company Regnery Publishing (we’re both owned by Eagle Publishing, Inc.) sent me a new book to read. I am really bad these days about not reading all the books I get in — sometimes up to a dozen a week from various publishers and authors. But this one caught my eye. Katie Pavlich, Townhall’s News Editor, has a book out entitled Fast And | Read More »
Is This A Subtle Bias At Reuters?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 5th at 04:47 AM |
In a story about the White House in damage control mode over the President’s rather stupid remarks on the Supreme Court, Reuters reports the following: “What he did was make an unremarkable observation about 80 years of Supreme Court history,” Carney told reporters during a White House briefing dominated by the topic. and The president, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, qualified | Read More »
By Jon Bruning’s Own Logic, Is He Into Gay Marriage and Inappropriate Relationships With Kids?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 5th at 04:46 AM |
What a miserable question to have to ask about Nebraska Attorney General and Republican Senate Candidate Jon Bruning — in effect is he, at best, a creepy pervert and at worst a monster. But before you pick up pitch forks and torches against me for asking the question, you need to understand that this is Jon Bruning’s own tortured logic in the Nebraska Senate Republican | Read More »
Morning Briefing for April 5, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 5th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing April 5, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Welcome Back, Baseball 2. Is This A Subtle Bias At Reuters? 3. By Jon Bruning’s Own Logic, Is He Into Gay Marriage and Inappropriate Relationships With Kids? 4. Obama’s Continuing Assault on the Law, History, and Facts 5. Does Harry Reid have the courage to boycott | Read More »
Women at the Masters and Barack Obama’s Exceptional Conformity #EERS
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 4th at 05:56 PM |
Tonight, where are the cries and screams about women at the Masters? And what of Barack Obama’s conforming while using the word exceptionalism? I’ll break it all down for you from 6pm to 9pm ET. Listen live right here and call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK. Consider this an open thread.
Maybe Paul Ryan Should Have Called It a Trojan Condom Budget
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 4th at 04:46 AM |
Barack Obama spoke to the American press yesterday to demagogue Republicans, Paul Ryan’s budget, cite Ronald Reagan as proof that raising taxes is okay, and damn with faint praise American exceptionalism. The President called Paul Ryan’s budget a “trojan horse.” Given the President’s predilection for forcing all Americans, through regulatory fiat, to adhere to his view of contraception, I suspect that had Paul Ryan preemptively | Read More »
Morning Briefing for April 4, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 4th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing For April 4, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Maybe Paul Ryan Should Have Called It a Trojan Condom Budget 2. Does Obama Know How the Supreme Court Voted? 3. Sherrod Brown Compares GOP Governors to Hitler, Stalin 4. Earmarxists Make Best Case Against Earmarks
Hate Mail From a PBS/LA School District Employee
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 3rd at 08:08 PM |
He’s a Producer/Director for KLCS-TV/DT, The Education Station. We know because he used his work address. From: brian.heffron@lausd.net Subject: Congratulations! Date: April 3, 2012 4:18:44 PM EDT To: contact@redstate.com Congratulations, Gentlemen! (We know that no decent woman would be caught dead in your offices. Right on!) Your site has won the coveted Most Bigoted , Misogynist & Racist Website on the Entire Internet Award! What | Read More »