South Carolina as King’s dream, USC’s Omaha dream and gamecock dreams Redstate made real five years ago

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 »

Real world clarity educates all but Obama [updated]

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 »

Georgia remains as red as the clay for Chambliss

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 1st at 11:47 AM  | 

Fifty-eight and counting for the Democratic Party in the United States Senate, and should incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss lose to Jim Martin on this Tuesday’s run-off election, only one Republican vote would be required to invoke cloture to end filibusters. A President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress would have a blank check to enact most all of their legislative dreams of the past | Read More »

Tobacco taxes secure property rights

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  December 1st at 10:44 AM  | 

Property rights ought to trump second-hand smoke, but it may be politicians love for tax revenues that snuff out power plays by non-smokers to impose smoking bans in restaurants. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com “It’s not about personal freedoms. It’s not about businesses’ property rights. This is a health issue bill.” That was House Majority | Read More »

Bush world barbarians at Obama’s Gates

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 29th at 12:04 AM  | 

Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Barack Obama was the one, who was waiting for? Was it us, or Al Qaeda in India; Russian missiles near Poland and warships in Venezuela, respectively; and Iran near the bomb? Suddenly, post-Olympics, post-Election Day and especially post-intelligence briefing, President George W. Bush’s post-911 record doesn’t look so bad. Why else would | Read More »

Foghorn Leghorns: DeVining and parking the Drive-By Media

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 28th at 05:08 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report and Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The Foghorn from the Associated Press uncorrected by The Charlotte Observer: MUMBAI, India Security forces assaulted a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were believed holed up with possible hostages today, with black-clad commandos dropping from a Indian helicopter as sharpshooters opened fire | Read More »

No branch Office of the President-Elect in Georgia

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 27th at 07:06 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries by Erick. Michael Barone reports: Democrats hope for a disproportionately large turnout of young and black voters, but Barack Obama, busy building an administration with an eye to bipartisan acceptability, seems so far unwilling to deploy the one political asset—personal campaigning by the president-elect—that seems most likely to spark such turnout. Democrats hope, but Obama’s non-change Clinton cabinet doesn’t extend to | Read More »

“New” patriotism owes old version credit for Happy Thanksgivings

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 27th at 10:27 AM  | 

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner at The Minority Report Black Americans are justifiably proud of their country in the wake of the election of Barack Obama as President. In fact, most Americans, including yours truly and other conservatives and Republicans, are proud that the election of a Black man is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that America | Read More »

Prop 8 hate: Gay ain’t married to King

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 25th at 01:29 PM  | 

Originally published by our Legal Editor, Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com After the most liberal state in the nation rejected same-sex marriage at the ballot box for the second time this decade, protests rallies were held across the nation, including here in Charlotte. Some gay rights activists point to the defeat of same-sex marriage with the passage of | Read More »

All POW’s are held indefinitely

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 24th at 03:31 PM  | 

That especially includes those of the illegal enemy combatant variety held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and in theater in Afghanistan and Iraq. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com and at The Minority Report The holding of captured enemy forces so they cannot return to the battlefield to kill one’s own soldiers is elemental. But, the millennia-old | Read More »

Obama’s “pre-packaged” bankruptcy an early Christmas gift to GOP

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 08:58 AM  | 

And Republicans they should do it quickly before the Democrats get in the frontseat. Originally published by Mike DeVine as legal editor for The Minority Report on its Live Wire: This is a brilliant idea, even if The One did think of it. It is what used to be called political victory for a more savvy GOP. Republican office holders, radio talk show hosts and | Read More »

DeVine Examiner declares N.C. for President-Elect

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 21st at 01:13 PM  | 

Paint it Blue! North Carolina may Now and only now, be “declared” for the President-Elect. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com Incompetence or subterfuge by the Associated Press in their “reporting” on the counting of the presidential election votes in North Carolina? It’s obvious to this former trial lawyer that a competent cross-examination would find then | Read More »

Drill for oil as act of civil disobediance

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 19th at 12:50 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com A conservative republican senator, James Inhofe of Oklahoma (right), wants to prevent a Republican President’s Secretary of the Treasury from spending $350 billion absent approval of a Democratic Party congressional majorities. Thomas Freidman, a liberal Obama-supporting columnist with the New York Times opposes Democrats in congress that want to come | Read More »

Making sure voters distinguish between Democrats and Republicans

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 18th at 10:08 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com and as legal editor for The Minority Report Exit polls from Election Day 2008 showed that a majority of voters trusted democrats more than republicans to cut taxes, despite nearly all of world history. There is no excuse for this or course, especially since Proposition 13 in California more than | Read More »

Faith-based conservative federalism

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 16th at 02:03 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report [Part one of our Election 2008 post-mortem, rejected the notion of a “secular American majority”. I agree with Dave Sage that culture drives politics; that America has been growing more secular; and that America desperately needs a new Great Awakening outside of politics. However, Republicans are not yet Daniel in a pagan Lions Den. | Read More »

Lukewarm spue at Foggy Bottom clears 2012 field

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 15th at 02:03 PM  | 

By Mike “gamecock” DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The Left now controls all levers of national power in Washington and has no more need for triangulators that delayed the vesting of their birthright. The worshippers wanting to bring back ’68 have hated Bill Clinton since the 1995 State of the Union that declared the | Read More »

Even Democrats can’t win a Secular American majority

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 14th at 12:47 PM  | 

The reason: No “secular American majority” exists. The vast majority of Americans still believe in God. By Mike “gamecock” DeVine, Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com In his brilliant A Republican Party for a Secular America, David Sage correctly cites the 2008 rejection of the GOP “in its current form” by the American people at the ballot box, but then attributes that rejection | Read More »

Institutional racism cases should now end

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 13th at 03:33 PM  | 

Originally published by our, Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com Barack Obama’s election to lead America’s largest institution, its government, by a 75% Caucasian electorate, should eliminate further civil rights claims not based on actual racist acts by identifiable flesh and blood racists. When a self-identified African-American receives more votes for president (both actual and as a percentage of | Read More »

Turnout defeats Democrat default crisis generator

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 08:37 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Admit it now, what good were all the pre-election polls, poll obsessing and/or personal predictions for the past 23 months? None, unless your goal was to suppress GOP turnout, elect Farrakhan’s Messiah or keep alive a nerdy desire to give one’s life five seconds of meaning by being “right” in a guess | Read More »

Huckabee blasts Obama as small business killer

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 12:14 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com “Small businesses should be making business decisions, not tax decisions.” So declared John McCain’s friendliest vanquished rival for the Republican presidential nomination during a campaign rally in Charlotte last week that skewered Barack Obama for change small businesses can’t believe in. Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee minced no words | Read More »