I am not making this up. From Fox News online: Fire officials in California say a fire at a warehouse that stored memorabilia belonging to Neil Young started in a vintage car the singer had converted into a hybrid vehicle. Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi told the San Mateo County Times the Nov. 9 fire began in Young’s 1959 Lincoln Continental and spread to | Read More »
This will be a brief diary. I have been by our local early voting station a few times, once to vote and twice to cheer on GOP volunteers who are working the polls. There is barely any room to park, no matter what time of day, and turnout is huge. The problem is that this polling place is 95% Democrat. Democrat poll workers are aggressive, | Read More »
Hat tip to Dan Spencer – the link to the article can be found in his RedHot post. As Mark Shields and David Brooks debated on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, they spoke about Barack Obama’s self-absorbed interview with the New York Times. Shields, the left winger, was very demoralized over the mere fact that Obama had done the interview, perhaps not realizing that | Read More »
I was taking a trip down memory lane today and came across a diary I posted after the election in 2006: I need someone to help me keep track of these figures I think we need to keep track of where the country was economically on the day of the election. I am on the road most of the time, working hard like most all | Read More »
Much has been written here at RedState about the left’s adherence to Saul Alinsky’s Rule for Radicals. I won’t rehash any of the excellent commentary here, but I would like to take a brief look at two rules that interest me right now. One has been used against the right for decades but is being revisited in this election cycle, and one has been forgotten | Read More »
Feeling good about the generic ballot showing Republicans way ahead of Democrats? Inspired by the victories of Tea Party backed candidates in GOP primaries? Already practicing saying “Speaker Boehner”? Not so fast. Do we really think that a desperate Democrat Party, whose only principle is power, is not going to use every underhanded, sick, unethical trick in its book to retain the House and Senate? | Read More »
I once had a large and menacing friend – we’ll call him Ray. He was as gentle as a lamb, but no one outside our little group knew that. He would go to bars and hang out with us, mostly keeping to himself. When one of us got into trouble, which was more than occasionally, here is how the conversation would go: “OK – I | Read More »
I have been stewing about the issue of the Ground Zero mosque for a few weeks now, wrestling with a diary on the subject. Today I was made aware of a statement by Newt Gingrich on the issue, and when I read it I realized he said everything that I wanted to say. So here it is, copied from Newt’s website: There should be no | Read More »
I know, I know. You believed in Hope and Change. You thought he was the one you had been waiting for. But your unemployment benefits have run out, the country is in virtual ruin, and you want a do-over. Maybe you’re a Democrat candidate for office, and can’t believe you blindly went along with leadership who is so far left they make Che Guevara look | Read More »
Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. | Read More »
It looks like Virginia is going to receive justice, thugocracy style, for electing a Republican governor. Let me introduce you to the Joint Forces Command, soon to be a memory. From Fox News Online: Joint Forces Command, or JFCOM, is one of 10 full combatant commands. Most correspond to regions of the world, such as Pacific Command, but others are organized around a concept or | Read More »
The final round of the British Open was held on Sunday. Played at the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, the tournament was won by a man from South Africa named Louis Oosthuizen. His given name is Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen, but “Louis” will be on the Claret Jug, much to the relief of the engraver, I would imagine. As he walked up the 18th fairway, | Read More »
From Fox news online, with very few comments because this speaks for itself: North Korea’s health care system is in shambles, with doctors sometimes performing barbaric amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight for payment in cigarettes, in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said Thursday. North Korea’s state health care system has been deteriorating for years amid the | Read More »
Let’s very quickly tie together two other little tidbits from the Bull City of Durham, North Carolina – home of Duke University, Mike Nifong and the Duke University lacrosse team. Did you know that there was an organization in Durham called The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People? Would you like to go to a meeting? No problem – unless you are white: | Read More »
Shabazz, Shabazz, I thought…where have I heard that name before? A-ha! Remember the Duke lacrosse case? Seems like Barack Obama is not the only one who can’t let a good crisis go to waste. From the blog “Sweetness and Light”, circa 2006: Malik Zulu Shabazz, a Washington lawyer who is the leader of the New Panthers, said he will be in Durham to rally with | Read More »
On Thursday, January 4, 2007, Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives and the Senate from Republicans. As we approach the midterm elections, with nearly four years of Democrat rule in Congress under our belts, the most important question to ask is: Are we better off now than we were four years ago? Well, are we? Is an unemployment rate of 9.5% better than | Read More »
As a long-time visitor to the beautiful white sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, from Gulf Shores, Alabama all the way across to Destin and St. George Island, Florida, I have been mighty upset over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The prospect of ravaged fisheries and spoiled beaches was infuriating to me, and I have sure let everyone hear about it. I could not | Read More »
I know it hurts, Bill. No state troopers to fetch willing (or in some cases, unwilling) women for you. No adulation since your groupies found another messiah. The fiddling with an intern thing is so, well, 1990′s, and it seems if the Enquirer can catch John Edwards, you know they can catch you and it has really cramped your style. You are insignificant, relegated to | Read More »
Kent State was an odd place to incite riots, but many believe it was because the campus was idyllic, and calm, and that the local police and sheriff had no way to handle the influx of leftists who would radicalize the student body. It was also a very short distance from a prominent SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) chapter in Cleveland. In reality, the location was perfect – | Read More »
If I were to mention the words “Kent State”, what comes to mind? Maybe “massacre”, or “National Guard”. An idyllic, peaceful campus, where college students minded their own business and went to classes until crazed, militaristic right-wingers showed up and shot four of them dead. That’s the way it was portrayed then, that’s the way it is portrayed now, and you would be forgiven if this | Read More »
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