Formerly known as Gamecock’s Ode to Leonard’s Losers DeVine Law Gamecock’s first rooster crowings from the Stone Mountain of Georgia upon our return to Atlanta last week addressed mostly politics. We will weigh in on legal matters later this week. But for this first column as Atlanta Law and Politics Examiner, after two years of such examinations from North Carolina’s Queen City, we want to reincarnate our annual sports | Read More »
DeVine Law ends two week writing Sabbatical with return to Georgia after three years in the Carolinas The prospects for the U.S. economy and deterrence of America’s foreign enemies look no greater from atop the Stone Mountain of Georgia than they did from Charlotte’s Hornet Nest. But the death of the public health insurance option in Washington is visible from Peachtree Plaza and the sound of a real Blue Dawg Democrat | Read More »
Burress, Stallworth, Pitino and Obama I almost wrote this column after hearing The Panel’s Bill Sammon, Charles Krauthammer and Cici Connally obligatory ”I’m a dog lover”, Michael Vick paid his debt to society and deserves a second chance rhetoric, before exuding all the righteous indignation and disgust they could muster to assure us that, ”but I wouldn’t hire him”. No word yet if Sammon, Krauthammer & Connally would hire anyone that had performed, paid | Read More »
Government option is a death panel The elderly town hall mobs have forced the removal end of life counseling provisions from the sight unseen Senate bill said to be similar to those passed by a House committee before the August recess: Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the provision had been dropped from | Read More »
[Update] In my eight years as a converted conservative Republican, op-ed newspaper columnist and blogger, I have been continually frustrated with my political allies’ seeming blindness to or reluctance to acknowledge the fact of, obvious admissions by our liberal Democrat opponents on matters that we deem crucially important to our case against them. During the recent Presidential campaign I was frequently beside myself as I | Read More »
We the People have won major battles, but the war now shifts to less vocal victims The outcry against specific proposals in the House bill, even before it was passed out of committee before the recess, was so strong that at least 41 democrats prevented a floor vote. The outcry in Town Halls during the August recess has doomed any public option, government officials making end of | Read More »
Did Patrick Henry demand liberty or death in dulcet tones? No Tiring of the exaltation of procedure over substance in the health care debate by the Drive-by media A bill that, among other things, would re-structure 20% of the American economy; end Medicare as we know it; pay doctors to initiate end of life discussions with patients over the age of 64; coerce employers to substitute | Read More »
ObamaCareDems put in writing what Democrats scared Seniors into fearing from Republicans for last 40 years Recent polls even in the Age of Obama, consistent with most polls ever taken on the subject over the last century and the present one, confirm a majority, center-right nation. Yet, we find ourselves led by very liberal democrats in the White House and Congress. Conservative seniors can now | Read More »
Obama’s first Supreme Court Justice confirmed with support of less than 25% of Republican senators The discredited “Hatch” strategy is dead as its founder, Orrin Hatch (R-UT) followed his Ranking Member replacement on the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), pictured, in voting against Sonia Sotomayor despite the “consequences” of the election of a Democratic Party president. Gone are the days when Hatch boasted of super-majority | Read More »
Russian subs detected patroling Myrtle Beach, S.C. for the first time since the Cold War ended. No indication this commander wishes to defect to Montana like Sean Connery. As a candidate, Joe Biden predicted an international test of the young president within six months; that a President Barack Obama’s initial response would be widely seen as weak; and that it was crucial that Democrats rally to his side. | Read More »
An unusual amount of significant news was made on this week’s Sunday political shows that even the Drive-by Media acknowledged but, as usual, missed the significance of; and, also as usual there were many significant utterances that whooshed right past them or were intentionally ignored so as to give cover to their ideological liberal Democrat allies. Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may | Read More »
You can’t get re-elected without our votes. Here is how you get our votes. But first some admissions about why we are even having this conversation given the party you have chosen to empower and the debunking of the relevance to your re-election of the threats you are hearing from the Speaker of the House and the President’s Chief of Staff if you don’t support | Read More »
The road to PC police Hell was paved with good White Guilt intentions. The Road from ObamaGates Hell was paved by Obama’s election. The fact of the election of a Black man by an overwhelmingly Caucasian nation purges the long misplaced white guilt and with it, indulgences for ObamaGates race cards. For at least the past 25 years, most Americans have been living a post-racial | Read More »
Recent history showed we couldn’t even trust a GOP Congress under Bush to control government spending. The past century of history reveals the myth of the conservative blue dawg Democrat. Blue dawgs are mostly drawl and that’s all when it comes to final votes on major legislation, and yet, they are now Americans’ only hope to avoid, at minimum, a near decade long Great Recession | Read More »
For the first time ever, GOP Judiciary Committee veteran will vote against a Supreme Court nominee South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham is now the leader of a, thankfully smaller, Republican group of Senators equating the consequences of presidential elections with repeal of advise and consent clause and fealty to Oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. When Justice David Souter announced his retirement in May, this column | Read More »
Human nature is leap challenged and that’s the way it is My most vivid, earliest memories include the clippety-clop sound of JFK’s horse-drawn caisson; the headline of the Spartanburg Herald reporting the assassination of MLK; and gazing at the Moon with my younger brother minutes after Walter Cronkite’s reporting of Neil Armstrong’s small step onto the Lunar surface. I remember being baptized three years later | Read More »
Yes Lindsey, elections have consequences, including those of U.S. Senators and not just Presidents. And shouldn’t the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, its amendments and the Oath to uphold it have consequences too? [This is part three of DeVine Law series during Sotomayor nomination hearings. Parts one, two and columns prior to the hearings are here.] I speak, of course, of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) | Read More »
Supreme Court nominee flees from President Obama’s “empathy” standard and her own record Update – Part three is here What if John Roberts had declared in his nomination hearing for Chief Justice of the United States that rather than being an umpire-like judge calling balls and strikes, he intended pitch? Does anyone believe that President George W. Bush wouldn’t have immediately withdrawn the apostate before | Read More »
Democrats should own race-based injustice label after Supreme Court nomination hearing [For Update/Second DeVine Law report on Sotomayor hearing, see Sotomayor as Toto-deny-or] The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution demands equal protection for all persons. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a society based on character content judgments and supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act which prohibits discrimination against individuals based | Read More »
Is the real coup in the Americas being engineered by the Secretary of State against a 3am challenged White House? Three weeks ago Hillary Clinton spent 72 hours to finally convince the Non-Meddler in Chief to denounce the Islamist Junta in Iran for the violent repression of hundreds of thousands of voters protesting an obviously fixed Presidential “election.” In the immediate aftermath of the election, | Read More »
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