http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:42:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes. This may be obvious to everybody else by now, but it wasn't obvious to me until today. At first (and still, to some extent), I didn't think it mattered much just what we called it--it was murder, I'd also say treason, and certainly worth the death penalty.  There were plenty of ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/11/11/was-it-an-act-of-terrorism/ This appeared in only slightly different format as a comment on a front page column, responding to the question, "What is a moderate?" Due to overwhelming popular demand (Penguin and Jaded) I'm posting it here with only slight modification.... “Moderate” is a label other people apply to someone else more frequently ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/11/03/moderate-has-more-than-one-meaning/ He only needs to take a few simple steps.  It's easier than cutting out cigarettes. Make an immediate decision on General McChrystal's request for at least 40,000 more troops for Afghanistan.  For re-election purposes it almost doesn't matter what the decision is, because his dithering is the obvious problem. Announce that he ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/11/02/i-can-guarantee-re-election-for-president-obama/ Two of the health issues that we all seem to generally agree about are the desirability of portable insurance policies and facilitating access to affordable policies by everyone who wants to buy them.  Both of those goals are achievable without a massive overhaul of the existing health care and insurance ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/09/10/straight-talk-about-health-insurance-or-how-to-achieve-portability-and-accessibility-without-a-government-plan/ My Dear Sir/Madam: You have been telling me that it's imperative to pass a health care/health insurance/health delivery bill that would overhaul our current system (one that over 80% of us are fairly happy with) at a cost of about $1,500,000,000,000 over the next ten years.  That's $1.5 trillion dollars above ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/08/25/message-to-democrat-congressman-stop-spending/ If Barack Obama were truly interested in improving "Health Care" for Americans, he has a very simple way to prove it to all of us non-believers.  I mentioned it to Mrs. Flagstaff (who is already registered to be in Atlanta next year) the other day, and since then I've heard ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/08/19/a-litmus-test-for-obamacare/ I criticized her recently.  Today I must praise her.  Her column, which appeared in Town Hall yesterday and in some newspapers today, is a very good summary of the Utah health care plan developed under Governor Jon Huntsman.  That's a plan I never heard of before. She goes into what it ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/07/28/lets-give-kathleen-parker-credit/ When we compare our present state of health care with that of countries with socialized medicine, such as Canada and Great Britain, there is one giant difference that is almost never pointed out.  It may be alluded to in passing, but it's almost never addressed directly.  I'll get to it ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/07/21/ill-make-it-simple/ Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday, delivering the party line on the topic of the takeover of health care by the Obama administration.  In doing so, he unleashed some whoppers on the viewing audience.  Those included: [The] President said yesterday he ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/07/21/senator-judd-gregg-misses-an-opportunity/ By "here," I mean in the United States for the last year or so.  And I don't mean to imply that I have an answer. In the last 12 months, an extremely junior Senator from an extremely leftist and corrupt area of Illinois has been transformed into a savior, rescuing us ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/07/19/what-is-going-on-here/ Senator Kyl corrected the record on Sandra Day O'Connor vs. Sonya Sotomayor.  O'Connor said she believed a wise man and a wise woman would come to the same conclusion.  Sotomayor said she thought a Latina would come to a better decision than a white man.  That implies a different conclusion.  ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/07/14/midstream-update-on-sotomayor-hearing/ Starting with the Presidential election of 2004, a recurring claim of the Democrat Party has been that calm, rational, reasonable leadership by a Democrat President will bring the leaders and the people of the rest of the world, and particularly of Europe, to join with us in our fight against ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/05/29/its-time-for-democrats-to-prove-they-were-right/ Dr. Sowell discussed his new book, The Housing Boom and Bust, with Sean Hannity on Wednesday night.  Regarding the blame for the current economic condition, he said There's a lot of blame to go around, but what's crucial... is that the mortgage payments stopped coming in, and so whoever created a ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/05/14/its-official-dr-thomas-sowell-explains-the-housing-loan-crisis/ Niaive. Humorless. Incompetent. Shrewd. Intelligent. Inexperienced. Indecisive. Opportunistic. And now, Newt Gingrich has said of his policies regarding treatment of terrorist prisoners, trial of these prisoners, release of these same prisoners after or before trial, and handling of the Somali pirate after his capture, "This, I think, verges on insanity."  Fox News Sunday, 5/10/09. Although I have said it ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/05/12/words-used-to-describe-the-boy-president/ Let's just trade her to the liberals.  Based on the column she published yesterday on Town Hall as "Torture by Another Name," and again today in The Arizona Republic as "By defining torture, we define ourselves" (there are some stylistic differences between the two columns), she thinks like they do.  ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/04/27/kathleen-parker-is-considered-a-conservative-writer/ On Fox News Sunday today, Senator Carl Levin, never a moderate Democrat, called again for a "independent" investigation into something about the interrogation memos.  I say "something about," because it's far from clear just what needs to be investigated there, but that's not my objective.  My objective is to tear ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/04/26/why-do-democrats-always-want-an-independent-investigation/ In the real world of laws, sanity, and reason, there cannot be any court proceedings against the advisers of President Bush.  I am not a lawyer, but I believe my reasons for this conclusion will stand up. First, before there should even be any investigation, there has to be some evidence, ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/04/23/only-through-the-looking-glass-will-there-be-interrogation-memo-trials/ I'm not referring to the obvious stupidity of revealing our internal reasoning on this subject to our enemies.  Nor do I mean the obvious stupidity of a President who has now told his advisers that "whatever you tell me may be revealed to the public someday by a future President.  ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/04/20/what-is-really-wrong-with-divulging-the-contents-of-those-interrogation-memos/ The sow's ear in question is the decision that is either coming or has already been made to convert millions or billions of dollars worth of the preferred stock of eight "rescued" banks into common stock.  The explanation given is that it will improve the banks' operating ratios, and thus ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/04/20/how-to-make-a-silk-purse-from-a-sows-ear/ Without boring you with the details of why I believe these to be factual, I'll just give you the list. There is only one way the expense of this bill can ever be paid.  Inflation.  We are facing massive inflation at some point down the road if this bill passes as ... http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2009/02/10/straight-talk-about-the-economic-armageddon-plan/