http://www.redstate.com/gamecock Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:10:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Part one of Mike DeVine's report on Fox Business Channel's, John Stossel's speech last week at Atlanta's Emory University Law School may be reviewed here.] No more Emmys for you John Stossel made a name for himself at ABC as the nation's best consumer affairs reporter. Last Wednesday, before his "Bashing ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/23/john-stossel-vs-business-bashing-meddlers-at-emory-part-two/ DeVine Law thinks it's about time Gamecock had long called for Martin Luther King, Jr.-style (with all due respect also to Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi) non-violent, civil disobedience in oil drilling even before ObamaDems took over D.C. with economic policies that prevent We the People from bailing ourselves out ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/22/social-conservatives-call-for-civil-disobedience/ Strict Constructionism is civilization's friend when applied to the U.S. Constitution and the Bible. Not so when applied to the Koran and other authoritative writings of Islam. The latter fact is a major factor in the rise of Islamist terror, as the plain and obvious meaning of the actual words of ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/20/words-of-koran-le-the-bible-does-not/ DeVine Law Gamecock was in his element at Emory Law School on Wednesday night as one of conservatives' favorite reporters in the Drive-By Media spoke to a nearly full Tull Auditorium. John Stossel, famous for consumer horror stories for years at ABC, spoke mostly about his transition from liberal to libertarian ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/19/john-stossel-meets-devine-law-at-e/ Lanny Davis, former Clinton White House Counsel and, more importantly, a Friend of Bill since he became good friends with Hillary and the former President at Yale, refutes the Obama Administration "coup d'etat" narrative on Honduras and demands that the upcoming elections be honored. The former First Lady and current ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/18/former-dem-white-house-counsel-c/ Don't hold your breath tonight waiting to hear a tough question to Obama from Fox News Channel's Major Garrett The main theme of this latest installment of "Foghorn Leghorns", or getting our legs around Drive-by Media fog", is the overall lack of journalistic curiosity, especially as pertains to running interference for President Barack Obama ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/17/the-dearth-of-journalistic-curiosity-and-fncs-failure-to-be-the-balance/ False claims of race-baiting have no place in civilized society Nor on the front page of Race42012 It is with great sadness that I am compelled to write this column defending Erick Erickson of Redstate.com against false charges of "pulling the race card"; "race-baiting"; and of being a "race pimp." Those are fighting ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/16/defending-erick-erickson/ The institution of marriage vs. housing/employment discrimination and hate crime legislation From the category of headlines the Drive-by media has conditioned us to deem unfathomable comes this from the AP: Mormons back gay rights in Salt Lake City It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/15/mormons/ In the wake of the Fort Hood Massacre and the "11th hour" state of the American economy and Liberty at home and abroad generally, one column honoring veterans on the occasion of the November 11th national holiday was not enough. In our three previous columns concerning the treasonous murders (now at ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/12/obama-earning-dishonorable-discharge-by-dishonoring-veterans/ Today's national holiday honoring America's military vets began as a celebration of the Armistice-signing end of The Great War on the "the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" in 1918. Less than two years earlier, President Woodrow Wilson sent America's finest "over there" to save Western ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/11/honor-veterans-by-declaring-war-on-pc-ie-cowardly-liars/ The Constitution guarantees states a “republican” form of government. Republics make law via legislatures, not by judicial fiat or the mob rule of pure democracy. Conservatives like me, applauded California’s referenda reversing its Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage creation. We admonished same-sex marriage supporters to exercise their free speech rights in the arena ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/10/maine-marriage-referendum-betrays-small-%e2%80%9cr%e2%80%9d-republican-principles/ Massive outpouring of adulation for Reagan at the time of his death and funeral shamed most Leftist Democrats and Drive-by media into sharing credit with Reagan for the fall of the Evil Empire. But with President Barack Obama barely noting the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/09/so-morning-in-america-and-mourning-reagan-leads-to-praising-gorbachev/ Administration policies pit America against freedom fighters at home and abroad as President prefers spotlight shining on him, rather than Reagan's Shining City on a Hill Five moments define the Reagan Presidency for me, with the greatest of them (1) occurring on November 9, 1989, when freedom-loving East and West Berliners ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/08/obama-busy-building-walls-not-celebrating-berlins-fall/ Has political correctness turned U.S. military bases into free speech, gun-free zones? Before we address why an apparent anti-American subversive who frequently spoke in support of Muslim solidarity in jihad against the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq and, yet, was allowed to remain an officer in the U.S. military, DeVine Law ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/07/maj-hasan-as-anita-hill-and-ft-hood-as-virginia-tech/ Leadership, not race, will decide Atlanta mayoral run-off The dead-tree drive-by media in Atlanta, as predicted here and here, has beaten the racial drum incessantly since Mary Norwood (46%) failed to garner the required 50% plus one votes to avoid a December 1 run-off against runner-up Kasim Reed (36%). The latest insult ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/06/drive-by-media-sees-only-skin-color-in-atlanta-mayoral-run-off/ Headline you never see: Republicans block census citizenship question Another you never see: Democrats block Census citizenship question. The reason you never see the first question as an MSM news headline is that Republicans don't object to asking the people being counted to determine the apportionment of the political power in this ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/05/failure-to-id-ft-hood-shooter-akin-to-todays-senate-vote-on-illegals/ The 9.8% of Americans that are unemployed and the 90.2% that are either employed or have given up looking, are told that the Great Recession is over. Don't believe a word of it or find a new word to describe the trouble we are in as a nation. I wrote last ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/05/obamadem-policies-conservatives-must-support/ The racists in this drama are the media No matter how incessantly the Drive-by media talks about white and black voters, the change in the relative fortunes of frontrunner Mary Norwood and runner-up Kasim Reed is about leadership qualities, and not the relative pigmentation of their skins. Less than 48 hours ago, ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/04/reed-comeback-in-atlanta-mayoral-race-not-due-to-r/ Atlanta remains a city too busy to hate, which fact caused the Rooster oracle to realize he wasn't too busy to end his Sabbatical for an Election Day prognostication. This I-85 South Carolina native has loved the Capital of Dixie since childhood. His brother was even born at Crawford-Long Hospital when ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/03/cockstradamus-returns-for-atlantas-color-blind-mayorla-election/ Post-2000 conservative epiphany, I have come to realize that many of the leaders of my former Democratic Party must not really care for the poor given their denial of the poor boats lifted by Reaganite supply side economic policies and given their continuing advocacy of proven failed liberal policies since ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/11/02/graham-unwittingly-gets-liberal-admissions-against-cap-and-trade-via-nyt-editorial/