http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:37:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A question - what do the Navy SEALS facing court marshal for their "abuse" of a detainee and the average conservative American have in common? Besides an abiding love for our country and a willingness to fight for it? Some months ago I read an article in National Review authored by ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/11/25/the-lefts-ultimate-aim-the-policeman-in-our-heads/ Looks like the circus that will surround the KSM trial has already begun. From the AP: A German government official says the nation will send an observer to the upcoming trial in New York of the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and four accused henchmen. Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/11/21/germans-to-send-observer-to-ksm-trial-concerned-about-evidence-they-provided/ It seems that there is very little theological difference among the various denominations in the Church Of The Perpetual Demon. To wit, from - deliciously - Fox News: Still, one notable e-mail from the hacked (Hadley CRU) files clearly describes how to squeeze dissenting scientists from the peer review process: "I think we have to stop ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/11/20/to-follow-up-on-vladimirs-redhot-a-tidbit-from-the-hadley-cru-emails/ I think I am going to throw up. A Democrat is co-leading Cuccinelli's transition team, and not just any Democrat. From the Richmond TImes Dispatch: Cuccinelli announced this morning that his transition will be led by former Attorneys General Andrew Miller, a Democrat, and Republican Richard Cullen, as well as former state ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/11/05/virginia-ag-elect-cuccinelli-makes-his-first-mistake/ This is from Moe Lane's diary (http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/10/29/doomwatch-why-creigh-deeds-is-losing/) about a question posed in the last Virginia Governor's debate. The question was whether the candidate could find one good reason to vote for his opponent. Bob McDonnell said this about Creigh Deeds: McDONNELL: He’s a good family man. He’s worked hard to represent his ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/10/29/creigh-deeds-is-a-decent-man/ Update: We all know they've been after the Joooos as well, and the assailant was a little better shot this time. Two worshipers were shot today at a synagogue in Los Angeles. From Fox News online: The victims, identified as 38-year-old Mori Ben-Nissan and 53-year-old Allen Lasry, are said to be in good condition ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/10/29/congratulations-to-the-white-house-keith-olbermann-and-msnbc-shots-fired-at-home-of-lou-dobbs/ I am going to call with a simple message. The NFL has denied Rush Limbaugh the opportunity to become part owner of an NFL team because of a smear campaign based on lies. To add to that, the NFL are hypocrites to let Keith Olbermann, the most hateful person in media, participate in ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/10/15/here-is-your-nfl-offices-contact-information/ I am not making this up. From Fox News Online: Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.  The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/10/13/russia-to-be-allowed-to-inspect-and-count-americas-nuclear-weapons/ It's official - the Nobel Peace Prize ranks somewhere around the MTV Video Awards and the Teen Choice Awards. Come to think of it, you actually have to DO something to win those awards, so I now put the Peace Prize below them. We will get to witness, in all its ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/10/09/obamas-peace-prize-when-will-this-cult-of-personality-be-viewed-as-the-joke-it-is/ I have a deal that you just might be interested in. No - not a lame try like that "From 52 To 48" garbage, which was essentially an "OK, we won - would you play nice and roll over now?" plea. This is something real, something that I am willing ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/10/04/to-the-mailbaggers/ Last Sunday, Stalin Felipe was one of five men falsely accused of raping a college freshman, Danmell Ndonye, at Hofstra University in New York. Were it not for a cell phone video that showed that the woman was engaged in consensual sex with several men in her dormitory bathroom, it ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/09/18/falsely-accused-never-exonerated-it-seems-to-be-all-they-have-left/ In the recent comments characterizing opposition to Obama's healthcare reform plan as racism, we are seeing the fallacy noted in the title - when side A's argument degenerates to a point where they accuse the opposing side of racism, side A not only has lost the argument but has also explicitly conceded defeat. This is also closely related ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/09/16/jacks-corollary-to-godwins-law-reductio-ad-klanum/ My children won't have the opportunity to hear Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday. They'll be educated for the period of time the speech will take, but it will be by me (probably at an ice cream shop - who says school has to be boring?). I've been called bat crap crazy, ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/09/07/why-my-children-will-not-be-listening-to-barack-obamas-speech/ This is just incredible. From Fox News Online: Besieged by leaks of several closely held secrets, the CIA has asked the Justice Department to examine what it regards as the criminal disclosure of a secret program to kill foreign terrorist leaders abroad, The Washington Times has learned. Two U.S. intelligence officials, who ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/09/04/so-now-the-cia-wants-leaks-probed/ When I was in high school, I was a pretty good baseball player. We had an away game on a Tuesday my senior year, and we were playing a Catholic school with a pitcher whose arm had rapidly become legendary. Our players were whispering about it on the bus - how fast ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/08/21/i-tell-a-story-in-which-i-am-the-hero-in-order-to-illustrate-a-point/ From Fox News online: WASHINGTON -- Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush's Cabinet to raise the nation's terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election. Ridge says he objected to raising the security level ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/08/20/this-is-what-is-going-to-be-on-msnbc-all-day-tomorrow-fair-warning/ I'll keep this brief, because I know you are busy redefining "Republican", but I have a question to ask. Actually, first I have a brief bit of history to share - something that happened after the Gulf War in 1991. I believe you were involved in that, no? Anyway, some ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/05/26/secretary-powell-i-have-a-couple-of-questions-for-you/ Somone shared this with me yesterday: While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and the fact that he is our ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/05/13/barack-obama-the-post-turtle/ This is almost too good to be true. I'll just post an excerpt from an entertainment column from Fox News online, detailing some of the boorish behavior of the Real Housewives. Some things, however, are beond the pale: Meanwhile, Zarin mouthy co-star Kelly Killoren Bensimon, who's celebrating her 41st birthday at ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/05/01/olbermann-and-a-real-housewife-of-new-york-city-two-peas-in-a-pod/ Arlen Specter and the left may not realize it, but they received a prescient and firm condemnation from Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi many years ago. Since Christianity is the only religion not really included in multicultural curriculum and discussions these days, I was forced to look for something that liberals could ... http://www.redstate.com/jack_savage/2009/04/30/gandhis-take-on-specter-and-the-american-left/