http://www.redstate.com/gamecock Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:58:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "They want us to surrender." That is a direct quote from a mostly non-political observer I met during my recent vacation who confessed confusion with the mostly opposite takes of economic, foreign and other political events found on Fox News Channel vs the Drive-Bys (CNN, NBC, et al). Yet, this non-ideological victim ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/07/08/they-want-us-to-surrender/ What if, on January 21, 2001 instead of accompanying Vice President-Elect Dick Cheney to the Inauguration, Vice President Al Gore had led a large, angry mob in a march on Florida's State Capitol building in Tallahassee to hand out Presidential survey election ballots ruled illegal by the Supreme Court? What ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/07/01/obamas-autobank-fit/ And if you can't bring yourself to directly address the condition of elected Democrats' hearts, at least go as far as the late pastor of my hometown Baptist Church, who, when asked if he thought so and so was a Christian would reply: I don't have a soul-meter, but if I ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/30/post-captrade-no-jury-can-convict-obamadems-of-caring-for-poormiddle-class/ What Clinton and President Barack Obama have in common that uniquely condemns the Democratic Party As the Democrats' majority in the House prepare to pass President Obama's desired skyrocketing electricity bill-causing "cap and trade" bill, a column by former President Clinton emphasizing how much FDR cared for the poor appears in ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/26/lessons-dems-religion-wont-allow-even-bill-clinton-to-learn/ Resign, repent, reconcile, rehabilitate and return South Carolina lost a truly great governor today and America lost one its purest conservative voices, at least for a time. I know that Governor Sanford didn't resign today, but he will within days. And he should. It is a sad day for South Carolina. The ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/25/mark-sanfords-only-path-back-to-political-viability/ Iraq and Iran prove facts on the ground matter more than Drive-by media defined "perception" Conservative Republicans are often cowed into defeatism during political battles against liberal Democrats with the refrain that "perception matters more than reality." I always recoil from this scoffers' rationalization for surrender to the power of the ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/23/words-do-matter-actions-matter-more/ [update - June 24, 2009] I was wrong in my initial conclusion that the Drive-by media was doing a hit job on the first Republican I ever voted for. It is now clear to me that South Carolina's Governor was reckless in the conduct of his office. I initially relied upon ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/22/drive-bys-know-where-sanford-is/ First, we noticed during the 2008 campaign that Senator Barack Hussein Obama always referred to America's Number One Racist with the honorific of "Minister" Farrakhan and never merely as Mister or Louis. Then, President Obama greets the King of Saudi Arabia with a deep, subservient bow during a foreign apology tour ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/20/obamahonorific/ Charlotte, N.C. (TMR) - As delegates to its 37th annual convention gather here tomorrow in the Queen City, they are greeted with shameless agenda driven journalism by the largest newspaper in the Carolinas. The Charlotte Observer, for whom I recently served as the conservative voice, continues its self destructive bent (most ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/17/observer/ Axis shows its evil; Stimulus fails to stimulate and ABC becomes WHBC Generally, much like radio talk show host Dennis Prager, I much prefer clarity to agreement, and especially so in politics. Most bi-partisan "solutions" neither solve the problem nor educate voters on which of the partisan positions would more ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/16/whbc/ They regularly lose to conservatives like Sarah The Governor of Alaska is an unapologetic, unabashed Reagan conservative who echos the truth to power messages rarely heard from other elected conservatives too afraid of Obama and the Drive-by political correctness media police. Democrats have won the past two election cycles and now ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/15/lefts-elephantine-memory-justfies-pali/ Despite President Obama's and The Charlotte Observer's best efforts, Ken Lewis lives on as the CEO of a non-nationalized bank that alchemized force-fed Merrill Lynch granite into gold. Admittedly though, his testimony before a Congressional committee on Thursday was not Lewis' finest hour. In fact, Rep. Jeff Flake, a Republican from ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/12/bernanke-lied-bank-of-america-didnt-die/ TARP has worked, Indiana pension funds are bound by the Bankruptcy Court's order authorizing the Chrysler-Fiat sale and the Second Amendment does not now apply to the states. [Updates indicated by brackets below. Latest in bold and bracketed] Let's take our conservative cold shower is ascending stages of frigidness as measured by ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/08/conservative-cold-water-on-chrysler-guns-and-tarp/ The main qualifications for a Justice of the Supreme Court are character and courage This sixth DeVine Law analysis of the nomination process to fill the retiring Souter seat on in the nation's highest court is less about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and more about refuting much of the conventional wisdom that ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/04/soto-is-no-harriet-miers-and-neither-was-miers/ Will Obama passover the plague of terrorism in Egypt? Apologies for the tortured paraphrase of Rameses II oft repeated defiant commands in between plagues The God of Moses visited upon Egypt until Pharaoh let his people go in The Ten Commandments. But wouldn't it be appropriate to recount the benevolence of ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/03/so-should-obamas-speech-be-written-so-what-has-been-done/ It comes as a shock to many black friends of mine when I reveal to them that for at least 25 years, possibly the worst social taboo among whites is to be labeled a racist. To be considered a racist has severe economic, social, personal and political consequences for white ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/01/an-exercise/ A diabetic with learning disabilities, raised by a single mother in a South Bronx neighborhood, rose to the top of elite Ivy League universities. Lawyer Sotomayor was then given the power to prosecute criminal defendants and, for the past 17 years has wielded the gavel of a trial court judge before ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/05/31/rewinding-the-start-of-obama-sotomayor-justice/ For political reasons, I would not favor a Republican Party filibuster of the President's first nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. But her record as an appeals court judge and publicly enunciated judicial philosophy do render her unfit to serve even as a traffic court magistrate. Unfortunately, thanks in large part ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/05/28/gops/ President Obama has made his choice and, as DeVine Law suggested upon Justice Souter's announced retirement, he appears to have made a bold leftist ideological choice as well as a "twofer" Democratic Party political choice, with a female and a Hispanic in Second Circuit Federal Court of Appeals Judge Sonia ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/05/26/on-empathy/ America may never be able to re-pay the national debt to foreign bondholders that the ObamaDems' stimulus and budget bills promise to incur and certainly we will never be able to re-pay the ultimate sacrifices so many Americans have made that we honor on this and every Memorial Day. So, is ... http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/05/25/what-the-fallen-didnt-die-for/