http://www.redstate.com/hogan Just another RedState: Conservative News and Community weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:26:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Senate healthcare bill has numerous flaws – but you needn’t know the details to know that it erodes freedom, restricts your ability to care for your family according to your wishes, costs trillions of dollars, increases taxes, increases premiums and is so massive that it is impossible to comprehend ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/11/24/words-mean-things/ Today, in editorializing about Scozzafava’s collapse, the normally astute editors of The Wall Street Journal join the ranks of those chronically infatuated with equating the supposed extremism of the right with that of the left. This apples-to-oranges nonsense is made only worse by the editors’ absurd acceptance of the ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/11/02/wall-street-journal-editors-should-explain/ “But the Voting Rights Act has, sadly, become little more than a tool for political hacks to hide behind race in a quest to promote liberal ideology and the Democrat Party.”In the convoluted world of the Voting Rights Act, about which Chief Justice Roberts famously said, "It is a sordid ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/10/20/holder-doj-whites-will-only-vote-for-blacks-if-they-are-democrats/ In 2010, Texans either will lead the nation forward according to conservative principle and under conservative leadership, or they will put their trust and faith in the ways of Washington. In the last several weeks, current Texas Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison - each vying ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/08/25/perry-for-texas-hutchison-for-washington/ The Senate confirmation hearing, committee vote and floor vote have come and gone. Judge Sotomayor is now a member of the United States Supreme Court. May God bless her, guide her and grant her restraint in her rulings. That said, it is difficult to be optimistic. Justice Sotomayor ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/08/07/on-sotomayor-the-great-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-pathetic/ In the coming days, the Senate will debate the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, culminating in a vote later this week. It appears that a majority of Republicans will oppose her nomination, but in doing so, they must have a consistent message explaining why. ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/08/04/on-sotomayor-senate-republicans-should-follow-john-mccain/ Next week, the U.S. Senate will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. We know this will happen – and it is, as her supporters like to remind us, expressly because elections do have consequences. Democrats have 60 Senators and the President is a Democrat. But ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/07/30/lamar-alexander-to-support-sotomayor-a-knife-in-the-back-of-republicans-the-constitution-and-conservatism/ Several years ago in a Senate Judiciary Committee Mark-Up, in a very different time, Sen. Lindsey Graham made a wise-crack to his Democrat colleagues along the lines of "well, one day, when Democrats get back in power... I mean, not in my lifetime... (laughter)." Well, it didn't take long, ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/07/28/senate-judiciary-committee-votes-sotomayor-out-along-party-lines-oh-except-for-lindsey-graham/ The Confirmation Hearing for Judge Sotomayor has begun in the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. We will hear a series of opening statements - and then, likely, a couple of days of questions for the aspiring Supreme Court Justice. This is a real test. But the test is not ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/07/13/the-sotomayor-hearing-begins-a-test-for-republicans/ In preparation for the upcoming Senate confirmation debate, supporters of Judge Sonia Sotomayor are stooping to a new low... According to McClatchy Newspapers, they are going after the Connecticut firefighter at the center of one of the nominee's most controversial rulings - the one recently overturned by the United States ... http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/07/11/backers-of-sotomayor-lets-get-the-firefighter/