Gingrich Cushman echoes DeVine on Atlanta, post-racial politics generally
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | December 4th at 01:35 PM |
Partisan party politics, even in a so-called “non-partisan” municipal election, and even when whites and blacks are largely split along separate party lines, does not equate, necessarily to “racial politics”. The view from the Stone Mountain of Georgia Atlanta’s mayoral run-off proves the post-racial politics trend DeVine Law & Politics has thoroughly examined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s skin pigmentation obsessions and racist projections from the beginning | Read More »
Race-obsessed media misses Atlanta mayoral runoff story
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | December 3rd at 09:03 AM |
I wish the *Atlanta Journal-Constitution would hire some black folks (or DeVine Law Gamecock) to help them find the truthful news; get over their own white guilt; and quit projecting that guilt onto the people of the city this conservative Republican loves. Yes, I am white. It appears that Kasim Reed (who happens to be black) won the Atlanta mayoral run-off over Mary Norwood (yep, | Read More »
Non-surge exit strategy as war tax slaps McChrystal, as even conservative media silent
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | December 2nd at 10:14 AM |
Were you hoping, like DeVine Law Gamecock, to hear a Commander-in-Chief boosting the morale of U.S. armed forces last night, for the first time since President George W. Bush’s farewell? So was I, but all I got was a lot of hectoring to a silent room full of West Point army cadets. No morale boost in sight, and we will detail the sheer arrogance and | Read More »
Obama’s tax hike as war exit strategy?
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | December 1st at 01:16 PM |
Hoping, like DeVine Law Gamecock to hear a Commander-in-Chief tonight, for the first time since President George W. Bush’s farewell? Don’t count on it. It appears that President Barack Obama already leaked the warrior-related details Monday, before the Charlie Brown Christmas preemption speech in prime time tonight: President Obama issued orders to send about 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan as he prepared to address | Read More »
Race-obsessed media can’t explain black on black attack in Atlanta mayoral run-off
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | December 1st at 12:25 PM |
Reed (black) ad attacks Franklin (black) ‘mess at City Hall’ Despite the AJC racial obsession, like I said weeks ago, the Atlanta mayoral run-off is not about race and never was The view from the Stone Mountain of Georgia There was more racial cross-over voting for Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed on Election Day than in any similarly contested Atlanta mayoral election in history (15-25%) | Read More »
In HinzSight, Afghan address just another Dem cut-and-run
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 30th at 12:03 PM |
Will we look back on the President’s first address to the nation as Commander-in-Chief as just another Democratic party cut-and-run? *[“HinzSight” reference is a tribute to the loss of a great journalist, athlete and friend of DeVine Law Gamecock, David Hinz, who was killed in a traffic accident this past Thanksgiving weekend. Our obituary is here, with other tributes at The Minority Report (which company | Read More »
In HinzSight, one of the best friends I never met, I met at Redstate
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 28th at 09:24 AM |
Dave Hinz, who died in an auto accident on his way to work early Friday morning, will be missed. Steve Foley broke the tragic news at TMR, and the local paper gives us more details on Dave’s life and death. Below, Gamecock remembers him. The Directors and Contributors share the grief of our readers at Dave’s loss. – Dan McLaughlin. The first time I moved to | Read More »
Double-dip red Friday, non-stimuli and government jobs-only summits
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 27th at 09:02 AM |
Gamecock just announced the dawning of the first Black Friday in his memory that won’t be black and Cockstradamus crows at the dawning of the feared double-dip recession; but JimmyCrackCorn and ObamaDems don’t care. Red Friday I DeVine Law won’t be in the North American shopping mall equivalent of the Running of the Bulls today, but he never is nor will be. His three main | Read More »
Braves-Gamecock, et al on Thanksgiving in the age of Obama
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 26th at 12:14 PM |
We thank God first for his providence and benefits, much as our first President did more than 220 years ago: Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor… – President George Washington, October 3, 1789 Braves-Gamecock will do his duty, | Read More »
Only modern GOP conservatives can keep America modern
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 25th at 10:59 AM |
Before disabusing readers of Drive-By Media-driven notions that moderate Democrats and extremist Republicans actually exist [portions of this column originally appeared as, generally, "Moderate Democrats and Extremist Republicans don't exist" at Modern Conservative, as well as Examiner.com and Many Faces of Barack.] in the modern world, let this Gamecock’s announcement of his Modern Conservative dawn (debut) also crow of what modernized this former liberal Democrat | Read More »
Moderate Democrats and extremist Republicans do not exist
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 23rd at 02:36 PM |
Dick Morris echoes Gamecock’s 2006 crowing of the Myth of Moderate Democrats The man who saved Bill Clinton from the far left of the Democratic Party but who was unable to get him to carpet bomb Osama bin Laden’s lair, wrote this week of the myth of the moderate Democrat. Naturally, this author of the 2006, Drawl and that’s all: The Myth of the Moderate | Read More »
John Stossel vs business bashing meddlers at Emory – part two
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 23rd at 12:10 PM |
[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 Business” lecture at Emory Law School’s Tull Auditorium, John Stossel was introduced as a | Read More »
Social conservatives call for civil disobedience
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 22nd at 10:08 AM |
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 of this Great Recession. Now, religious and social conservatives see a potential Liberty-destroying menace | Read More »
Words of Koran lend terrorists credibility
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 20th at 08:45 AM |
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 Allah in the Koran lend credibility to those the extremists in the Muslim and | Read More »
John Stossel meets DeVine Law at Emory Law in Atlanta (part one)
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 19th at 01:11 PM |
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 at the event, co-sponsored by The Federalist Society. We will be filing a more | Read More »
Former Dem White House Counsel challenges Obama on Honduras
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 18th at 06:23 AM |
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 Secretary of State would do well to heed Lawyer Davis’ advice with respect to: The | Read More »
The dearth of drive-by media curiosity and Fox News balance
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 17th at 01:26 PM |
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 and his fellow democrats. But, upon hearing of a planned partial lifting of the Obama Adminstration’s thuggish boycott | Read More »
Defending Erick Erickson
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 16th at 08:44 AM |
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 words where I come from, and so, after following the Biblical step-by-step | Read More »
Mormons prove marriage separate from discrimination laws
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 15th at 12:15 PM |
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 California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own | Read More »
Obama earning dishonorable discharge by dishonoring veterans
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 12th at 04:20 PM |
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 14 counting the unborn child of one of the victims) perpetrated by Major Malik | Read More »