By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:30 AM  | 

Late Senator defended the institution of the U.S. Senate and thus, the Rule of Law The Framers of the Constitution understood that checks and balances by established institutions were required to provide the processes and procedures to prevent substantive tyranny. The recently-passed “guardian of the senate” understood that basic fact as well, and despite this 2000 right-wing convert’s voluminous disagreements with the late Senator Robert | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 10th at 06:29 PM  | 

Challenging illegal alien law before it takes effect obviously political or Holder is incompetent Then Senator Barack Obama, famously during 2008 campaign debates in his future  Secretary of State’s home state, favored New York’s motor-voter law that automatically registered non-citizens to vote when they obtained drivers licenses. President Obama halted ongoing construction of the border fence upon taking the Oath of Office on January 20, 2009; | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 8th at 01:08 PM  | 

ObamaDems of the 21st Century, like the British of the mid-t0-late 18th Century, won’t let us bail ourselves out Given the hostility of President Barack Obama to our closest ally of the 20th Century, I have caught myself wishing people a “Happy Fourth” instead of a “Happy Independence Day”, as had always been my practice in an effort to remind Americans of the sacrifices made | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 6th at 10:23 PM  | 

Watching former prosecutor and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL) cross-examine Elena Kagan, President Barak Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, I was reminded of the familiar adage that: “If you aren’t a liberal at age 20, you have no heart; and if you aren’t a conservative at 40, you have no brain.” The senator asked the | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 1st at 03:32 PM  | 

Obamadems won’t let us bail ourselves out They won’t cut taxes for job producers. On the contrary, they refuse to repeal tax increases. They won’t allow expanded oil drilling on land or near shore. On the contrary, they ban all oil drilling in deep water. They won’t let foreign oil skimmers into the Gulf. On the contrary, they threaten Louisiana with Coast Guard flotillas for | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 1st at 09:25 AM  | 

Tea parties rejecting rule by men in favor of the rule of law would follow an effective exposure of the views of President Barack Obama and his Supreme Court nominee’s views. “Since elections have consequences”, we are told by not a few Republican senators, Elena Kagan should be deemed qualified and appointed for life to the Supreme Court so long as her judicial philosophy is “in the mainstream”. No matter that | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 26th at 11:25 PM  | 

The Bruins of UCLA seek their first baseball championship against a USC, 80 years older than their upstart crosstown rival. Yet, the University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks have never won a national championship in any sport. (The Lady Gamecock Track & Field team did win the school’s first national championship in any sport, just last year.) Losing has built character though, and very few | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 26th at 07:25 AM  | 

Conservative character-content voters shame Democrats’ race-based identity politics The Powers That Be (Neil) report that the non-artist variously known as gamecock, Mike DeVine, DeVine Law and Cockstradamus has been “registered” at Redstate for exactly 5.0 years. Drudge failed to pick up the story, but the anniversary of the registered birth of “gamecock”  and my native Palmetto State’s recent conservative character-based election triumph, reminded me of | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 19th at 11:10 AM  | 

We don’t elect congressmen to entertain us with intellectual repartee on Meet the Press. Or at least we shouldn’t. We elect members of the House and Senate to vote yea or nay on relatively easy choices of laws that affect our lives on war and our wallets. Literally over 95% of all elected Democrats in DC have voted for all of the Obama agenda that | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 18th at 09:35 AM  | 

The dangers of anti-Southern, anti-Christian, anti-male assumptions and stereotyping only makes the assumer look like a bigot, not me (exception to the “assume” rule) For those that have been piling on my native state over a few recalcitrant boors and one name-caller despite the fact that Haley won the white, male and Christian vote: Attorney General Henry McMaster will join former gubernatorial rival Nikki Haley | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 17th at 11:56 AM  | 

Must conservatives ask “how high” when MSM says jump, on GOPtea? No! Just because a tea partier-Republican and a pre-tea partier Republican disagree on an issue, doesn’t mean its time to eat our young or aged beef. If we diagnose gutlessness to every Republican congressman that dares disagree with privatization of Social Security, we won’t have enough guts left to defeat cloture motions, much less | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 16th at 09:30 PM  | 

Braves lifer still has the right stuff for World Series drive For the past 48 hours,THE story in Atlanta has not been OilBama, World Cup horns, nor even that its baseball team leads the National League East. Rather, its when the greatest everyday player for the past 20 years will retire. If Aaron is the Braves’ Babe Ruth and Dale Murphy is its Joe Dimaggio, | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 13th at 08:50 PM  | 

…as NL East-leading Glaus-House Gang comes home to Atlanta from a winning, season’s longest, 11-game road trip Battle of the Chickens for Omaha trip The South Carolina Gamecocks earned their ninth trip to the College World Series, beating higher-ranked Coastal Carolina yet still weak sister chicken, despite declaring itself the “Big Rooster” via its Chaucer-inspired “Chanticleer” mascot name: Christian Walker hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 13th at 10:18 AM  | 

Liberals mugged by ObamaDem reality. Now the healing can begin. Addiction to oil is really addiction to a modern, comfortable lifestyle. Most of us are also addicted to water, food and shelter. Including people in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, most liberals think  the good life is a given, not realizing the role that American circa 1776-style private property rights and Coolidge, JFK (Massachusetts native pictured advocating tax | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 11th at 07:38 PM  | 

…at least until we discover the cause Bailing out government unions and saving state government jobs while mucking up We the People’s efforts to bail ourselves out The latest crisis ObamaDem-o-bats (pictured, economic blood-suckers) refuse to waste continues to blacken the Deep South. But rather than focus on plugging BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well, preventing the blackening of gulf shore beaches, and getting fishermen back | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 10th at 07:24 PM  | 

This former South Carolina Democratic Party activist and official moved to Atlanta in 2001and was finally driven to the GOP by angry poverty pimps, race-baiters and union-shills like Cynthia McKinney, Joseph Lowry and Max Cleland. My conservative epiphany launched DeVine Law Gamecock’s second career as a conservative voice columnist at The Minority Report and The Charlotte Observer. Objective evidence over my then 18 years of adult political, | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 5th at 04:30 PM  | 

Enjoying what passes for a recovery, when stimulated by ObamaDems? If so, you must be a teacher or other union represented government employee. The rest of us are still choosing the generic peas over the 10 cents higher Le Sueur brand. Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich hasn’t a clue on how America could recover, but the student then Yale professor Robert Bork said was the finest | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 5th at 12:44 PM  | 

Boortz! Being a 20-year Rush Ditto-Head and talk radio junkie, I love Neil’s last name signal for a commercial break, much as I have enjoyed his legal and political insights since I arrived in ATL in June 2001. But it was always a great disappointment for me, a rabid right-wing conservative convert after 18 years a Democratic Party activist and official in South Carolina until | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 4th at 03:49 PM  | 

*[Mark Steyn's latest echoes much of Gamecock's Turkey Rooster (not an oxymoron in this context) crowing but in the larger context of the end of "realist's" beloved "stability". - an excerpt and link at end of this column] I speak of the Islamic fundamentalists that inspire al Qaeda-like terrorist jihad and not the former shell of itself hiding in Pakistan, in President George W. Bush-commanded US | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 29th at 10:54 AM  | 

Dan Coats, borne arms and repealing ObamaDems Questions from a conservative to self-identified gun rights advocates This Reagan-Bork conservative since 2000 believes that our Creator-endowed unalienable rights includes the individual right to own and bear arms to defend ourselves, our families, our homes, our businesses and Liberty itself. Judge Laurence Silberman’s majority opinion in D.C. vs. Heller articulating this right was persuasive in striking down the | Read More »