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 »
Associated with see no evil monkeys AP gives Obama “symbolic” NC win
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 8th at 01:59 PM |
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 »
We have one president at a time
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 5th at 11:21 AM |
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 »
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 »
Obama’s Anti-Civil Rights Movement
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | November 3rd at 03:01 PM |
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The leader of the civil rights movement in this country had | 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 »
Seven Days before Seven Days in May
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 29th at 01:57 PM |
Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report In seven days, voting by We the People will end, and ballot counting will begin. At the end of that process, we will know the identity of the man that a majority of electors in the Electoral College are committed to select as Commander in Chief when inaugurated as President of the United | Read More »
Father-challenged Obama rejects Constitution, Founding Fathers
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 28th at 12:10 PM |
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.
A piece of Obama’s action is puny
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 24th at 01:09 PM |
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 »
Better to describe socialism than merely affix the label
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 23rd at 07:25 PM |
“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 »
The “Face” of the Obama Campaign
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 23rd at 04:55 PM |
Days ago: “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Today
More bad advice from Colin Powell
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 19th at 08:58 AM |
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 »
Angry white males and females
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 18th at 12:51 PM |
Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Following the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, network anchors explained the historic event as one of “angry white males” having a childish temper tantrum. This election season, an overtly in the tank for liberal Democrats media is raising the spectre of anger incitement | Read More »
How Obama might avoid landslide defeat
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 17th at 08:36 AM |
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 »
Obama sprung a leak in middle class plumbing debate
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 15th at 10:12 PM |
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 »
Bitter white bigots coming for the children again, John Lewis?
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 12th at 12:14 PM |
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 »
No questions left for Obama
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 11th at 09:38 AM |
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 »
The Regulators
By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) | October 9th at 02:17 PM |
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 »