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 »

In HinzSight, one of the best friends I never met, I met at Redstate

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 28th at 09:24 AM  | 

Dave Hinz, who died in an auto accident on his way to work early Friday morning, will be missed.  Steve Foley broke the tragic news at TMR, and the local paper gives us more details on Dave’s life and death.  Below, Gamecock remembers him.   The Directors and Contributors share the grief of our readers at Dave’s loss.  – Dan McLaughlin. The first time I moved to | Read More »

Defending Erick Erickson

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 16th at 08:44 AM  | 

False claims of race-baiting have no place in civilized society Nor on the front page of Race42012 It is with great sadness that I am compelled to write this column defending Erick Erickson of Redstate.com against false charges of “pulling the race card”; “race-baiting”; and of being a “race pimp.” Those are fighting words where I come from, and so, after following the Biblical step-by-step | Read More »

Pull a Gamecock: GC Recommends that Recommenders post a comment

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:02 AM  | 

Every time I recommend a blog on this Beta-Redstate 3.0, I post a comment alerting the diary writer and the general public. I usually did that on 2.0, but it is imperative that we do it here at the “improved” site since the site does not identify recommenders. Moreover, there is ZERO stability in the order of the recommended diaries. They jump around from minute | Read More »