http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:38:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though it falls outside his original target of being within 100 days of taking office, President Barack Obama is keeping a pre-inauguration promise by “mak[ing] a major speech from an Islamic capital” this week in Cairo, Egypt. Obama made what was considered by many to be the safest (and most “obvious”) ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/06/04/obama-should-have-gone-to-baghdad/ If you haven't read Senator Cornyn's post from this morning on the NRSC endorsement of Governor Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in the open Republican primary for retiring Senator Mel Martinez's seat, go here and read it now, and be sure to thank the Senator for taking the time to ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/29/on-senator-cornyns-explanation-of-the-crist-endorsement/ Go join Digg. Go join Reddit. When you see posts you like, you can submit them to either service -- but that's not as critical as simply being a member of those networking sites, so that you can, with just 1 click (Digg) or 2 clicks (Reddit), help exponentially more people across ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/28/a-public-service-announcement-on-getting-our-message-out/ That's one of the questions being debated over at Politico's "Arena" blog. Here's my take, in a nutshell, on Sotormayor's statement at Berkley in 2001 that the "richness of experience" of a "wise Latina woman" makes her more fit to judge (or more likely to "reach a better conclusion") "than ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/28/judge-sotomayors-wise-latina-woman-statement-big-deal-or-no-deal-at-all/ A good ad from Rick Scott's gang: < Do bear in mind that Tom Daschle, who has returned to lobbying for a living, is still guiding "anti-lobbyist" President Barack Obama on health care "reform" even though his tax evasion lost him the spot of HHS chief and White House health care czar. ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/27/overnight-open-thread-something-to-think-about-when-the-topic-of-socialized-medicine-comes-up/ Via Tim Blair comes this gem (h/t Skanderbeg): One of the world’s greatest minds comes up with one of the world’s greatest ideas: Steven Chu, the Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by US President Barack Obama as Energy Secretary, wants to paint the world white. A global initiative ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/27/barack-obamas-unserious-secretary-of-energy/ The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has declared itself to no longer be party to the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War and established the uneasy peace that has reigned on the southeast Asian peninsula for the last 56 years. The announcement comes on the heels of a long-range missile ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/27/rumblings-from-the-korean-peninsula/ Despite taking place in the Information Age, very few of the heroic exploits of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines since September 11, 2001, have made their way into the living rooms of ordinary Americans — at least in any lasting way. Whether this is the result of changing values among ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/25/the-lost-heroes-of-the-war-on-terror-gallant-deeds-and-untold-tales/ Sobering, isn't it? h/t verum serum http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/21/in-their-own-words-what-the-democrats-really-have-planned-for-your-health-care/ Update by Jeff @ 12:41pm: Speaker Pelosi's protectorate in the House has buried the GOP's request that, if the CIA actually did lie to Congress, it be brought to their attention vis-a-vis a bipartisan investigation. The reason? If the CIA didn't actually lie to the Congress, then Pelosi's in some ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/21/house-gop-demands-bipartisan-investigation-of-pelosis-cia-accusations/ Shedding the Democrat-imposed and Republican-aided stereotype that they are the "Party of No" -- no ideas, no cooperation, and no legislative alternatives -- four Republicans today submitted a legislative alternative to the Democratic party's federal government-centric health care "reform" proposals. This morning, Senators Dr. Tom Coburn (R-OK) ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/20/gop-reps-senators-offer-alternative-to-democrats-government-centric-health-care-reform-proposals/ Note by Jeff: As bk notes in the comments, you have to really take a few moments and consider this to properly appreciate it. This isn't just garden-variety "duped by the establishment" gullibility - this is continuous and free admission that the president so many of them dubbed the "dumbest ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/14/nancy-pelosi-is-the-most-gullible-person-alive/ Update by Jeff: Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino explains how asinine Pelosi's decision to go to war with the CIA really was. Our favorite California Yankee, Dan Spencer, is all over this one: Nancy Pelosi continues parsing her denial of never being told about waterboarding and now claims the CIA ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/14/nancy-pelosi-just-another-politician-flailing-about-in-an-effort-to-save-her-own-skin/ The Obama administration and its mouthpieces have spent a great deal of breath, airtime, and ink trying to tell America that, by the mere act of holding a press conference on heath care, President Obama has revolutionized America and proven he is a man of his word who "really intends ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/05/13/the-skinny-on-obamas-supposedly-watershed-health-care-meeting/ Sources have confirmed to RedState.com that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has decided to switch parties from Republican to Democrat.. Multiple House and Senate sources are telling RedState that Specter has concluded there is "no way he can win" a contested Republican primary in Pennsylvania, and that an announcement of his intent ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/28/breaking-arlen-specter-r-pa-to-switch-to-democratic-party/ Update by Jeff: Perhaps this comment will shine a bit more light on the import of this issue. WHO SHOULD HAVE CONTROL over your medical care: your family doctor, or a bureaucrat you’ve never met whose sole job is to look out for the government’s financial bottom-line? That question, which is the ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/17/who-should-have-the-final-say-about-your-medical-care-your-doctor-or-government-bureaucrats/ The faux outrage over "torture" during the Bush War on Terror (I refer to it as the "Bush" war because, under Obama, we're apparently replacing the "Global War on Terror" with the "Multiple-Day Standoff on Man-Caused Disasters") is no more becoming of the left now than it was two, three, ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/16/on-this-day-of-the-cia-memo-release-a-polemic/ On Wednesday, over 200,000 ordinary Americans gathered at nearly 1,000 locations around the country. Fed up with high taxes, increasing debt, and expanding government encroachment into their private lives, they gathered to express their displeasure with the Obama administration’s policies and to rally around conservative ideas to push for a ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/16/what-the-tax-day-tea-parties-represent/ From the department of pathetic ignorance or willfully not getting it (not sure which to file this one in yet) comes this clip of a CNN reporter shouting down a Chicago Tea Party attendee for not displaying the appropriate appreciation and gratitude to President Obama for his gift to the ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/15/objective-cnn-reporter-to-chicago-tea-party-attendee-why-are-you-complaining-dont-you-know-obama-gave-your-state-billions-in-the-stimulus/ While I generally adhere to a policy of ignoring idiot college kids (and their close evolutionary relatives, post-graduate young pseudo-intellectuals with Obama-esque delusions of self-importance), this post caught my eye. Yesterday a child named Ezra Klein, who apparently writes for an online magazine called the American Prospect, had this to ... http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/04/14/of-ezra-klein-and-other-precocious-children-as-well-as-nonsequiturs-and-the-pizza-i-had-this-weekend/