The 2012 election made it abundantly clear that the Republican Party must reject fiscal conservatism if they want to win any more national elections. Small government fiscal conservatism is simply an archaic notion that a majority of the population now rejects. If the future is demographics – as many here and in the MSM claim – then the demographics we need to win are turned | Read More »
Let me begin by saying that I was as devastated by election night as most of you were. So this post is not an attempt to sugarcoat what happened. My goal is to put the election in a historical context and point our way ahead. The 2012 election was simply a repeat of the 1936 election. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, | Read More »
Republican Senatorial Candidate Richard Mourdock made national news in a debate on October 23, 2012. In response to an abortion question asked of all the candidates, Mourdock made the following statement: “I too certainly stand for life. I know there are some who disagree and I respect their point of view but I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have for, | Read More »
In the midst of the Chick-fil-A controversy last week, Mitt Romney voted “Present.” In Las Vegas on Friday, a reporter asked Romney about the Chick-fil-A controversy and about Michele Bachmann’s call for an investigation into the influence exercised by the Muslim Brotherhood within the federal government. Romney effectively shut down that line of questioning by saying, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.” | Read More »
One of Mitt Romney favorite topics on the stump is the role of culture in determining economic prosperity. Often, in the course of his remarks, he will refer to The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes. According to Romney, Landes argues that “if you could learn anything from the economic history of the world | Read More »
On August 1, 2012, Obamacare will mandate that employers – regardless of their religious beliefs – pay for abortions, contraception, and sterilization in their health insurance coverage. While churches are exempted, the Department of Health and Human Services has so narrowly defined the term “church” that religious institutions beyond the traditional house of worship must comply with the mandate. In other words, HHS provides no | Read More »
As The New York Times and Big Government reported earlier, the leaders of several evangelical groups have recently called for bipartisan immigration reform. The call for reform is part of a larger effort known as the Evangelical Immigration Table, which has issued the “Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform.” The heart of the statement reads as follows: Our national immigration laws have created a moral, | Read More »
The relationship between law and morality has become increasingly relevant as social liberals advance issues like homosexual marriage and abortion rights. Since at least Roe v. Wade, social liberalism has also revealed a division within the Republican Party. The relationship has provoked heated discussion here at RedState. The most recent being a discussion over homosexual marriage about a month ago – Gay Marriage: Left vs. | Read More »
According to various sources, the Obama administration and its allies in the MSM pressured Mitt Romney into publicly repudiating a potential ad campaign by an independent Super PAC that would have tied Obama to Jeremiah Wright. Their argument was that religion should be off the table. The decision by Governor Romney was wrong. It is perfectly valid to examine and question the religious beliefs of | Read More »
Dan Savage is a gay activist and founder of the “It Gets Better” Project. He has extensive ties with the Obama Administration and is a frequent visitor to the White House. Recently at a high school journalism conference, Savage, after making reference to just having sex with his male partner, launched a profanity laced attack upon the Bible and Christianity. He mentioned that regarding homosexuality, | Read More »
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