For most people in the United States, the past three years have been the toughest of their lives for a couple of generations. There are a few people who remember the Carter years, when neighbors in suburbs across America were siphoning gasoline from each other’s tanks in the middle of the night in order to avoid the gas-rationing lines in the morning and still get | Read More »
A lot of Senators are in China today. They include Harry reid, Dick Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, Jeff Merkley, Michael Bennet, Richard Shelby, Mike Enzi and Johnny Isakson. Nobody knows what they’re doing over there. This afternoon, however, half-page ads have been running on the Washington Post’s website about Chinese workers allegedly exposed to n-Hexane at Apple iPad manufacturing plants there. They | Read More »
Tonight there’s a new WSJ poll splashing all over the Drudge Report talking about how Donald Trump is second only to Mitt Romney in popularity among Republican primary voters. A couple of days ago, The Donald was reported to be doing very well in New Hampshire, also. I’m not surprised Mitt Romney is the front runner right now. I knew that he would be. Large segments of | Read More »
This one is just to make you laugh a little. Kinda like a dirty joke. It’s supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, so laugh, OK? I don’t normally re-report Politico stories, but this one is really funny. It seems that The People of Chicagoland have decided who is going to be the next mayor. The race is over. The three or four dozen (ok, maybe hundred) people | Read More »
[UPDATE: As of late yesterday afternoon, the Governor of Hawaii is saying in an interview that he's FOUND IT! Eureka! Hallelujah! We can all rest easy now, I guess, secure in the knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is actually, legally and constitutionally, eligible to be the POTUS. The Governor is going to "do what we can..." whatever that means. "It actually exists in the archives, written | Read More »
I keep looking at what’s happening in Camden, NJ and I just can’t believe what I’m seeing there. Or maybe I do believe it and I knew it was coming, but I can’t believe it was allowed to reach this point. For those of you who haven’t been following the apocalyptic tale of Camden, you can find a lot of the reports on Drudge. They | Read More »
Listen, we don’t want any unstable perons influencing millions of people at a time in America. Because they might be dangerous, to themselves or others. We don’t seem to have any problems with Oprah Winfrey, though, who admits she ate 30 pounds of macaroni and cheese after having been trounced by “Bride of Chucky” in its opening weekend. “I ate about 30 lbs. worth,” she | Read More »
[And I'm just getting started. This is just a little foretaste of what I would tell my Children about what America really IS these days. It's a horrible, dying, fetid, nasty place, full of people who have no common purpose and who actively hate each other. It's a dead Republic.] Looking back at the past year and the two years before that, this New Year’s | Read More »
This is a short diary but it’s on an important subject and there really isn’t much more to be said than this: Someone needs to tell John Boehner to grow the heck up and stop crying in front of every camera thrust in front of him, particularly when he’s being interviewed by Lesley Stahl for 60 Minutes. It was OK to see a sniffle here | Read More »
Yup. It’s true. Druidism is now a bonafide religion in Britain, instead of a gathering of eccentric occult whackos. Hey at least that means the guy I knew from NJIT who couldn’t find enough protection spells in Dungeons & Dragons now has a place he can return home to. The Druid Network, a group of about 350 Druids, will receive exemptions from taxes on donations | Read More »
OK listen everybody. I know that I have a mixed reputation for being a cheerleader here for Conservatives and Republicans – sometimes I’m a squishy squish. Sometimes I contest the official Party Line. I criticise Sarah Palin, I yell and scream and moan sometimes, or just suck my thumb and don’t write anything, or even worse, sometimes I make jokes. I joke about our politics | Read More »
You know, this whole thing about this tiny church in Florida has got me thinking. It’s got lots of other people thinking, too – instead of doing useful, productive work. There’s no need to recapitualte everything they’re thinking, because you can find it all over the place. But what I was thinking was this: burn the right book. And if you wanted to burn a | Read More »
Ok this is going to be very short but Sarah Palin is forgetting something when she says things like this, referring to Scott Brown: “But up here in Alaska, and so many places across the U.S., where we have a pioneering, independent spirit, and we have an expectation that our representatives in D.C. will respect the will of the people and the intelligence of the | Read More »
Almost two years ago, just after Obama won the 2008 Presidential election, I posted a short blurb here at Redstate referencing an article written by someone who I think is among the brightest bulbs in the marquee – Philip Greenspun of MIT. I’d like to briefly reprise that article here. With the benefit of almost two years of hindsight, it stands as one of the | Read More »
Hello everyone. I’d just like to post a follow-up to my previous entry on Massachusetts (actually Deval Patrick’s) one-gun-a-month legislation with emanating penumbras, H.4102, and how it turned out – for this legislative session, at least. Here in the Commonwealth we’ve become sadly accustomed — and we even expect it of each other at times — not to boast when we manage to prevent a | Read More »
I have been watching the Al Gore Massage Therapist story with all the restraint that I could muster and certainly more restraint than it deserved. Now that the Portland Police have decided that Al Gore is once again free and clear to hire massage therapists in their fair city, I think he should do something radically different, and start getting into Turkish massage while mixing | Read More »
For any of you who thought that today wasn’t one of the most important days in our history, I’d like to remind you: Today was the day that we officially allowed a foreigner based in Sweden and other countries to use the Internet to influence American foreign policy through the widespread distribution of secret documents. This wasn’t a small disbursal of a paragraph or two, | Read More »
I’d like to ask a simple question and I’d appreciate anyone’s perspectives whether they’re Tea Partiers, Conservatives, Republicans, Liberals, Progressives, Leftists or anything else. And not necessarily in that order. Why do you think politicians have so many bites at the apple when the rest of us have to accept defeat and do something different? I look at the people who are still influencing the | Read More »
There is only one headline here: “Warren Buffett and Bill Clinton visit Barack Obama in the White House and the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is Stopped the Next Day.”
For the purposes of this thread, I’m going to steer completely clear of the debate that’s raging in these pages about the NRA. I’ve made that decision because I realized that it’s a separate matter not very deeply connected to the subject I want to discuss here. In some ways, this is more important than that debate. [I could have titled it: “Meanwhile, on the | Read More »
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