Elected tea partiers in name only doom America [See update in last section below] The silence of the 87 and not a dime’s worth of difference Since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down there has been many dimes’ worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans, and there still is. The problem is that government has grown so large for so long and the economy | Read More »
Promised “Listener” of the House can’t hear The size of the puny proposals of the GOP House coupled with his reading material at least proves he has NYT and WashPo paper stuffed in his ears! John Boehner is Speaker of the House because of the historic election just passed in which his Republican Party gained more seats than in any election since based upon public | Read More »
Unified patriots must stand firm against all the forces of the Left being brought to bear on behalf of public sector union rule We have the votes in Wisconsin to begin the razing of government as fundraiser for the Democratic Party. We have the votes to welcome millions of Americans to the America where taxpayers don’t subsidize early retirement just in time for them to | Read More »
“Clarification” order scolds DOJ to hurry up, then gives license to implement a law he deems unconstitutional The only hope We the People had of preventing the solidification of socialized medicine pending a definitive ruling on President Barack Obama’s signature hope and change law no less than two years from now by the nation’s highest court, died last week at the hands of the man | Read More »
Boehner and Ryan may have best strategy on budget battle after all Soon after the new GOP-majority House convened in January, this column endorsed endorsed a “selective government shutdown” strategy in which congressional Republicans would pre-emptively prepare the public for what seemed to us an inevitable confrontation over government spending with the new party of “no”, i.e. status quo Democrats. Like Byron York, we think the political | Read More »
Obama and the Betrayal of America The promise that the Bush-McCain weary heard was that there were no red states and no blue states, but just the United States. The stimulus would arrest the recession and keep unemployment under 8%. ObamaCare would lower the deficit and you could keep your own insurance if you wanted. Foreign nations would love the anti-cowboy, and oh yes, anyone | Read More »
Or, when will Neil Boortz start mocking restaurateurs? Who knew that the tea partier-fueled greatest conservative Republican wave election in history would lead to a Georgia Republicans-sponsored bill to allow package sales of beer, spirits and wine on Sunday? The Georgia GOP pre-whip count tease of increased Publix profits, sure got Atlanta’s notorious Christian-basher more excited to shout Welcome South Brother (750 WSB-AM), until a redundant “secret” | Read More »
MAJOR ROOSTER CROWING: Beginning tomorrow and thru the end of February, I want ZERO recos from anyone that has ever reco’ed gamecock before and… I will only reco the diaries of those that I have never reco’ed before, so long as I deem them worthy. I will make clear in subject lines if I would have clicked the “RECOMMEND THIS” button and if regular recommenders | Read More »
Americans collectively bargain at ballot boxes and in legislatures, not streets and front lawns The acts of the Wisconsin teachers’ union and the SEIU look alien, foreign and Third World-ish to this former railroad union lawyer. Is it just me or do the tactics and rhetoric of the public sector union and community organizers in Wisconsin seem other worldly? Do the crowds of illegally-striking teachers | Read More »
[Updated} Aaron Worthing of Patterico.com echoes our assertion of The Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder's disingenuousness: So the Obama administration’s lawyers have filed a “Motion to Clarify” where they pretend that they are not sure what Judge Vinson meant by his ruling. You see a few states, such as Florida and Alaska, have decided in light of Vinson’s ruling that Obamacare is | Read More »
He was a Republican, that’s why. Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina to parents that played significant roles in the integration of little league sports and Cub Scouts there in the 1960s and 70s; I earned a B.A. from and taught at its Wofford College; was an activist and official in the county Democratic Party throughout the 1980s and 90s; and hired some of the first | Read More »
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who fought Saddam for many years and led troops in battle with the Americans against Baathists and al Qaeda in Iraq, announces that he will not seek a third term. Likewise, the Father of our Country and its first President also led troops against the British and then astounded the world by voluntarily relinquishing his power. Just now and recently, the | Read More »
Judge Roger Vinson’s “Order Granting Summary Judgment” to those seeking to declare ObamaCare unconstitutional, became the law of the land upon its filing with the Clerk of Court for the Pensacola Division of the United State District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Monday, January 31, 2011. Any Obama Administration act or omission in furtherance of the oxymoronically named “Patient Protection and Affordable | Read More »
This South Carolina Gamecock does not favor firing on federal forts in Charleston Harbor nor passing secession resolutions of any kind. In fact, the Palmetto State’s flagship university sports teams’ nickname honors Thomas “Gamecock” Sumter, a Revolutionary War hero that founded the Union and our signature quote at the bottom of this and all our rooster crowings, honors an Old Hickory who saved the Union | Read More »
Say yes to conservative Obama job-creation proposals, one issue/bill at a time while singing Tom Petty’s The Waiting The state of our union circa 2011 need not be so dire. Was it going to take years to climb out of the wealth-destruction hole wrought by the bursting of the housing bubble coupled with decades of accumulating national and personal debt? Yes, but after President Barack | Read More »
A Pre-State of the Union review of the World outside the United States from a Red Stater’s point of view But first, the State of our Union In two days, the Chief Executive we hired on a temporary basis will deliver his report on the state of We the People’s union to a nation made stronger by the increased number of tea partiers that will | Read More »
Much as free speech, free elections and the Electoral College failed to protect us from the ObamaDem super-majority threat When America faced terror after 911, many liberals played down the threat from Osama bin Laden and terror-sponsoring dictators like Saddam Hussein, by gnashing their teeth over “why they hated us” and how Abu Ghraib and fighting back “created terrorists”. I remember being told how Mexico | Read More »
Despite my “gamecock” nickname, I have never favored games of chicken and so don’t support a House GOP contest of Blind-Debt-ceiling-Man’s Bluff either. I have always thought that protest votes, especially if cast by a majority that would have the United States default on its current obligations, were irresponsible. Moreover, how much credible a threat is such a bluff under current circumstances? Zero, with but | Read More »
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! All Americans should celebrate the life of this great American. Below is my first column as the Conservative Voice of the Charlotte Observer, published January 16, 2007. So important have race relations been in my life that I made it the subject of my “dead-tree main stream media” debut. But first, let me add some context, four years on. | Read More »
Just as simple Democratic Party Senate majorities can change their body’s rules at will, regardless of rules that have existed for over 50 years that require super majorities, simple We the People majorities can also change which senators rule. But first things first. The United States Senate gets to make its own rules, period: “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its | Read More »
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