The failures of all conservatives for the last 45 years, not just the failures of Reagan’s social conservatives for the past 30 years, have led to the present circumstance. Recent remarks by James Dobson of Focus on the Family (referred to below) concerning the culture battles/war have been picked up on by the Drive-by Media to declare victory over the supposed theocracy-seeking social conservatives in | Read More »
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 »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com What is the big hurry in “declaring” the winner of North Carolina’s electoral votes in the presidential election? Especially since the outcome will not slow down the transition of President-Elect Barack Obama? The day after the election, AP reported: “In the unofficial returns, Obama led Republican John McCain by 13,746 | Read More »
[Update: On Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol stated that sources inside the McCain campaign advised him that John McCain called his aides on Thursday and told them to cease attacks against Palin. Kristol and two named sources in the room with Palin affirmed that the attacks against her, by anonymous sources, were malicious lies.] Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The American people have chosen a new Chief Magistrate. Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama. All Americans of faith should pray for him and his family despite any political differences. He defeated a true American hero and worthy opponent in John McCain. My candidate lost, but We the People have | Read More »
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 »
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 »
Originally published by Mike DeVine, as legal editor for The Minority Report Want to force the Drive-by media to cover Obama’s rejection of the wisdom of America’s Founding Fathers and our Constitution that produced the greatest nation on Earth? Then Obama should be the keynote star speaker at every McCain-Palin campaign event.
Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for and co-authored with Pilgrim at The Minority Report Whether its Obama as Da Boss: Or Obama as The Godfather: “One day I will come to you and ask you to do me a favor for me.” The Obama family syndicate only makes offers you can’t refuse, and it won’t matter whether his favor to you was | Read More »
“is” vs. “does” I have always had problems with the use of certain words in the imperfect medium of communication via language. The -ing words are the most blatant. They should only be employed to describe live events, precisely defined at the time, and so are wholly useless to use in print to be consumed at a later time, unless used to describe a circumstance | Read More »
Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports The media has been in a frenzy claiming that a few isolated hecklers at campaign events was evidence that the McCain campaign, and especially Sarah Palin, was ginning up anger by recounting Barack Obama’s past alliances with former terrorists and bigoted pastors. Especially eschewed as execrable was the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee’s | Read More »
Colin Powell advises America to elect Barack Obama as President and Commander in Cheif. Other advice he has given: Powell advised Bush 41 not to destroy Saddam’s army near the end of the Kuwait War in 1991. Saddam waged war against us for the next ten years and defied us after 911. In 2003, after getting a U.N. resolution before the Iraq War that called | Read More »
Originally published at The Minority Report [This is my reply to a former newspaper editor of mine from my years in Atlanta 2001-2006, who asked if I still thought the republican would win in a landslide.] Dear Madam Editor Hey gal! Good to hear from you. Well, a landslide, whether electoral or popular, by either of our definitions, looks unlikely (by either) given that the | Read More »
Originally published By Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports As usual the mainstream media, and that includes Fox News, misses the big story while they act out their roles on “game-changers” and their historically ignorant and discredited “Debate Moment” theory of Presidential election outcomes. The game changer is not a debate moment. Its that liberals rarely win this game. But | Read More »
Originally published By Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports Yesterday, Representative John Lewis(D-GA), and surrogate for the Barack Obama campaign, compared John McCain to former Alabama Governor George Wallace in blaming the McCain-Palin campaign for outrageous statements about Obama shouted out by people attending their rallies. Lewis took McCain on a civil rights tour in recent years and now Lewis | Read More »
We have the answers (UPDATE – see link for more answers after this column) Originally published By Mike DeVine, as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports “This new information about Barack Obama’s relationships with ACORN and William Ayers raises a lot of questions.” – (insert TV political talking head’s name here) Wrong. The information coming out now, during the “attentive voter season” before | Read More »
Originally published By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports [Friday, October 10 – UPDATE: Wachovia and Charlotte dodge Regulators’ bullett as Wells Fargo wins Wachovia: Combined bank to rival giants BofA and Chase Gamecock argues below that the Fed should not have been twisting arms behind closed doors, so we were especially interested in this quote: In a statement Thursday evening, | Read More »
[We swap editing roles for this one.] Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports My brilliant conservative, non-columnist friend in the banking industry desires, and rightfully so, that Obama and the Democrats be hit again and again – at least by McCain and his ads! – on a number of issues. My most recent economics column introduced Boata’s | Read More »
Barack Obama owns the defeat of the Wall Street bail-out bill today, more so than Speaker Pelosi, President Bush or anyone else. Obama has held himself out for over a year as The One we have been waiting for to change old politics and unify us. When the crisis broke out over ten days ago, he scoffed at McCain’s flight to D.C. to return to | Read More »
Defeat the Senate Bill in the House [update, October 3, 2008 – McCain and House Republicans emerged as conservative heroes when they improved the Paulson Wall Street Bailout, and, despite the pork the Senate included, it improved a bit more with the AMT change. But I still opposes the bill because I don’t think we need to commit so much taxpayer money to increasing the | Read More »
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