By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 01:24 PM  | 

Gamecocks kick off college football next week, McCaskill loses hope next month and hope returns to America on November 6 From his ongoing sabbatical in the Azores… When?last we crowed?from our autonomous, volcanic?Portuguese?isle, we accurately prognosticated South Carolina’s school season-record 11th football win over Cornhuskers in Orlando; another mythical Division 1A national championship for the SEC; USC’s trip to the College World Series in Omaha | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 19th at 01:56 PM  | 

Why even Democrat state employees should only send Republicans to DC Having just crowed at the  dawn of last week’s Thank-God-Its Friday, we forwarded the link to Charles Krauthammer’s latest, as is usually our want, to our (usually) Astute Political Observer in Alabama. This former Democrat (post-Summer of 2001 conservative epiphany) and our conservative APO, while still a professing member of the Party of Jackson | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 16th at 07:36 PM  | 

Sounds about right which makes Mitt the GOP’s best nominee since Reagan and toughest on Democrats ever This former Democrat has lived to drive a stake through the place a heart would normally be on the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness blood-sucking vampire that is my former party since my Summer of 2001 conservative epiphany. I know how rotten is the smell of the | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 16th at 01:39 PM  | 

Why do Republicans feel compelled to give presidential campaign ticket advice to Democrats and where is all this undeserved love and respect for Hillary coming from? Yes, Vice President Joe Biden is a dullard  that regularly repeats Democratic Party lies, up to and including that Republicans want to put Blacks back in chains and reduce Medicare for current seniors. And yes, he regularly forgets what | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 15th at 01:25 PM  | 

On primary day last month, DeKalb County, Georgia rejected T-Splost and founded a new city in her midst but the Great Recession/most anemic “Recovery” since the Great Depression continues and no amount of new cities, transportation plan Bs, nor Democrats or Republicans in the State Legislature, can fix it. Why? Because Georgia (nor any other state without oil beneath their feet) can’t fix what Washington, D.C. | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 11th at 04:27 PM  | 

So, why not expedite Keystone Pipeline and stop closing coal power plants? Georgians, South Carolinians and their respective Republican governors got early Christmas presents from an unlikely Democratic Party source last week when President Barack Obama agreed to waive further application of federal environmental rules in order to expedite the dredging of several U.S. ports, including those at Savannah and Charleston, S.C. The dredging is needed so | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 7th at 05:29 PM  | 

Not part of the captive audience spoon-fed broadcast network political correctness and Olympic “values” that treat dead Jews like monkeys More than a dozen years ago we limited our viewing of the three major broadcast networks to live sports, Seinfeld re-runs, and recorded (so we can fast forward through the ads) Sunday political shows. After making exceptions for House and 24 for several years, and | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 29th at 12:48 PM  | 

Would a 21st Century Alger Hiss even need to conceal his ties to America’s enemies from Johns, McCain and Boehner, to gain security clearances as a State Department employee, so long as he were vouched for by their “honorable friend” and former congressional colleague, Hillary Clinton? Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats’ Million Man March to mainstream fellow haters of the America they grew up in | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 05:43 PM  | 

Media, same-sex marriage advocates (named Ed only?) get louder even as their cause loses state electoral contests Two months ago, North Carolina voters rubbed their tar heels in the same-sex marriage movement’s face and becoming the 31st state to pass a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. (If only President Barack Obama had “evolved” sooner?) Ten other states have statutes defining marriage as exclusively a union | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 21st at 09:45 AM  | 

James’ World being the same one in which Cain slew Abel, Holmes paid no heed to Aurora theater’s ban on concealed guns carried by non-criminals Upon hearing that 12 were killed and 58 wounded by a gun-wielding 24-year old at a movie theater in Colorado, the mayor of the nation’s largest city just couldn’t let a crisis go to waste: “You know, soothing words are nice, but maybe | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 18th at 01:13 PM  | 

No problem is ever solved and unless Republicans vote for the next bill the Democratic Party introduces, they are racist-sexist-homophobe-bigots that care not for the poor and disabled It appears that Mitt Romney has learned a Rush Limbaugh lesson that also answers the question posed by the Andrea True disco song’s chorus: More, more, more How do you like it, how do you like it More, more, | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 17th at 12:25 PM  | 

Where does this New City movement stop? With a new City of Mike, when every person is their own munici-personality divorced from DeKalb County? No taxation without representation Such was the battle cry of colonists resentful of a distant and arbitrary King and Parliament unresponsive to their happiness pursuits. The shot heard round the world at Lexington and Concord launched an American revolution in self | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 15th at 11:02 AM  | 

Not. Why not just increase student loans, keep tuition high, blame Republicans for not caring about the poor and middle class priced out of an education because they won’t increase student loans even more, and keep the high salaries for the Democrats in academia? File the above with other headlines you never see, such as: Labor unions voluntarily reduce pay to save company Government employees voluntarily | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 12th at 08:44 PM  | 

Former Secretary of State’s mere presence on the GOP ticket trumps the race and other Democratic Party identity politics’ cards The rumors are out there, and this conservative hopes they are true. Condoleezza Rice as the vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party utterly refutes the narrative by which the Democratic Party attempts to justify its very existence. Yes, Dr. Rice has made statements sympathetic to the pro-abortion | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 11th at 01:14 PM  | 

The taxing power is more overt, but how much commerce is left to regulate with Obamacare safely constitutional? In the wake of the recent judgment of the nation’s highest court upholding the Affordable Care Act, conservatives were invited to wax optimistic since the Chief Justice joined the four conservative dissenters on the judgment in agreeing that the individual mandate to buy health insurance or be fined is not a | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 8th at 11:20 AM  | 

The substantive and procedural rule of law is the most right thing to do   This former and long-time fence-first-before-amnesty Southern Baptist conservative Republican only came to embrace a modified (non-voting rights) amnesty for long-time residents (even before the Mexican border is secured) last October during the GOP debate over Governor Rick Perry’s Texas law granting in-state tuition rates to long-time illegal immigrants. We had | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 30th at 01:47 PM  | 

Emanating “tax, not a tax” penumbras, the liberal imprimatur of legitimacy and so much for the judicial “restraint” of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court   Would you rather be hung or shot? (…and be happy about it!) We the People ordained and ratified a constitution as the centerpiece of a limited government alternative to the Divine Right of Kings and parliaments | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 24th at 11:13 AM  | 

But have you seen how cheap are a pair of outsourced Levi jeans at the Mall of America? A conversation with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev last March over a live microphone, that our President thought private, famously revealed Barack Obama asking for Tsar Putin’s patience on arms negotiations since a re-elected Obama would have more “flexibility” to sell out U.S. national security on armaments after | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 22nd at 08:40 AM  | 

Why conservatives applaud the John Edwards not guilty verdict [Originally published in the inaugural dead-tree version issue of the Times News of Brookhaven (DeKalb County), Georgia] Most campaign finance laws, other than those requiring disclosure of campaign contributions and expenditures, violate free speech rights under the First Amendment and foster the nefarious criminalization of politics “I think he definitely had some knowledge of where the money was | Read More »

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 17th at 05:47 PM  | 

Sen. Paul (R-KY) introduces needed bill to limit use of unmanned military planes by domestic law enforcement The constitutionally informed should have no problem when the Commander-in-Chief commands those for whom he is chief to kill Bin Ladens in Pakistan with Navy Seals on the ground or  even American citizen al-Harethis levying war against their own country in Yemen with un-manned drone aircraft. The President has broad, | Read More »