social conservatives

    Life, Daniels and the pursuit of conservative election victories

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  September 4th at 12:26 PM  | 

    Why Democrats win elections and why lifeless Daniels truces won’t produce majority reports Since his 2008 re-election Governor Mitch Daniels has been, rightly, singularly focused on reducing the size of the Indiana state government; balancing its budget and pursuing policies that would attract business to the Hoosier State. Ronald Reagan would be proud of Daniels’ successful application of conservative principles at the state level as | Read More »

    Social conservatives call for civil disobedience

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 10:08 AM  | 

    DeVine Law thinks it’s about time Gamecock had long called for Martin Luther King, Jr.-style (with all due respect also to Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi) non-violent, civil disobedience in oil drilling even before ObamaDems took over D.C. with economic policies that prevent We the People from bailing ourselves out of this Great Recession. Now, religious and social conservatives see a potential Liberty-destroying menace | Read More »

    Mormons prove marriage separate from discrimination laws

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 15th at 12:15 PM  | 

    The institution of marriage vs. housing/employment discrimination and hate crime legislation From the category of headlines the Drive-by media has conditioned us to deem unfathomable comes this from the AP: Mormons back gay rights in Salt Lake City It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own | Read More »

    Cultural battles lost despite, not because of, Dobson and Reagan

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  April 25th at 11:14 AM  | 

    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 »