By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:13 AM  | 

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 »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 9th at 08:32 PM  | 

America was born 233 years ago last week with a Declaration of Independence signed in the City of Brotherly Love. Five Hundred years ago Friday a man was born to love God that helped define much of what embodies the independence that has defined the Shining City on a Hill and the greatest hope of man on Earth. John Calvin must be ranked as one | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 8th at 11:39 AM  | 

“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 of the Great Recession reaches a quintessentially conservative conclusion succinctly reduced to layman’s | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 1st at 02:00 PM  | 

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 if either of our impeached Presidents, Andrew Johnson or Bill Clinton, had lost their respective | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 30th at 12:41 PM  | 

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 were directed to gather evidence of their faith, I doubt I could introduce enough | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 26th at 03:10 PM  | 

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 Time that reminds this former Democrat of what his former party cared for more | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 25th at 01:29 AM  | 

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 revelation that the first Republican I ever voted for is separated from his | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 23rd at 11:12 PM  | 

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 Leftist-dominated media. The facts on the ground in Iran and Iraq justify such re-coilings. | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 22nd at 09:52 PM  | 

[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 the seeming contradiction between “missing” headlines and this statement in the body of the | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 20th at 03:32 PM  | 

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 last month. This week, the Leader of the Free World refers to Ayatollah Khamenei, | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 17th at 08:59 PM  | 

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 apparent in its vendetta against the city’s biggest employer) with misleading characterizations of the | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 16th at 07:49 PM  | 

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 likely have been the solution. Hence, an America prosperous and free due to conservative Republican | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 15th at 10:18 PM  | 

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 hold large majorities in both houses of Congress. Yet, despite the triumph of liberalism, | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 12th at 10:44 AM  | 

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 Arizona, compared Lewis’ testimony to a case of Stockholm syndrome: “You’re still regulated, and | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 8th at 12:04 PM  | 

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 DeVine Gamecock Law’s (pictured) thermostat: Indiana Secured Pension Funds Creditors vs. Barack Obama | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 4th at 02:27 PM  | 

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 even many conservatives accept concerning what is relevant in determining a nominee’s competence and | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 04:24 PM  | 

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 America toward Egypt and much of the Muslim world in combating the plague of | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 1st at 04:14 PM  | 

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 folks. As a consequence, it is hard to find whites that utter racist epithets in | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 31st at 11:54 AM  | 

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 judging trial court judges from the second highest court in the land; apparently, if | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 28th at 08:13 PM  | 

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 to past feckless GOP judicial nomination strategies, not only were previous unqualified nominees not | Read More »