The Columbus Dispatch just came out with a new poll in OH on the presidential race showing Obama leading Romney by 50% to 48%. Being the number geek I am, I decided to check through the crosstabs to get a better understanding of what was happening. I came across something very interesting where they reported on how the vote has shifted since 2008. They show | Read More »
After McCotter (R-MI11) made a serious mess of the this congressional district race, I was initially pleasantly surprised to find RedState endorsing his little known opponent in the primary. I was surprised that someone had already been challenging even before the whole mess with invalid petition signatures. While McCotter hasn’t been perfect, he has been fairly popular in the district. He has a decently conservative | Read More »
I belong to the LCMS (Lutheran Church Mission Synod). My Synod President certainly speaks for me in the following clip, not because I blindly follow him but because we are of the same heart and mind on this issue. This video is well worth your time even if you are neither Lutheran nor LCMS. and here is a link to the transcript: http://www.box.com/s/57dhmq3o834i2oirne7u
In war, generals must consider and balance two important aspects: territory and strategy. Neither of these two is necessarily more important than the other. You cannot say strategy must always take a back seat to territory or vice versa. There are equivalent aspects in political war. The political equivalent to territory is ideals and the equivalent to strategy is, well, strategy. In war we recognize | Read More »
With the Boehner bill stalling in the House, Reid is pushing his bill through the Senate. The trillion dollar question for the week is, “are there enough Republican squishes in the House to get the Reid bill approved?” They only need 24 votes. Are there that many GOP members worried enough about a financial meltdown that they might bolt? We can argue ourselves whether such | Read More »
There are some interesting numbers in the Nevada exit polls. Democrats were able to keep a turnout advantage of 35% compared to 33% Republican and 32% independent. However the GOP did make some gains over 2008 when the turnout was 38% D, 30% R, and 32% I. Republicans increased 3% at the cost of the Democrats while independents remained steady. The difference for the Dems | Read More »
Scene: a young man dressed in casual but nice clothing standing on a somewhat busy street corner. He is approached by a middle-aged man in a suit. Middle-aged man: “Would you like $10 no strings attached?” Young man, looking somewhat puzzled: “I guess so.” The middle-aged man stops a well-dressed middle-aged woman walking by and starts rummaging through her purse. Middle-aged woman: “Hey, what are | Read More »
Michigan currently has 15 seats in the US House of Representatives. Of those 8 are held by Democrats and 7 by Republicans. There are 3 seats in play this election, all of them held by Democrats. If we can sweep them, it would change the makeup of the Michigan representatives to 10R/5D. It would also be a nice contribution to regaining Republican control of the | Read More »
As Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor testified that the 2nd Amendment was an individual right for every citizen of the United States to bear arms. In the most recent Supreme Court decision on the 2nd Amendment, she flip-flopped and tried to take away that right. Sotomayor was confirmed by a vote of 68-31. No Democrat Senator voted against her. Here is | Read More »
Hat tip Instapundit. Dan Riehl just reported on Riehl World View: Jim Webb: “it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated.” Wow!
Heard it on the radio this morning. Current Lt. Gov. John Cherry (D) may drop out of the MI governor’s race. Local radio reports: WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick reports Lieutenant Governor John Cherry is about to drop out of the race for governor because there are many, including some Democrats, who say he can’t win. and Skubick reported Monday night there has been | Read More »
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) is delusional. He ran as a conservative pro-life Democrat because there is no way that the voters of Nebraska would have voted for any other type of Democrat. He believes that the almost non-existent “pro-life” provision in the Senate health care bill will provide cover for him. He is not fooling anybody. The pro-life groups are not buying it at either | Read More »
The latest Gallup daily tracking poll has President Obama at his lowest job approval rating, 50%. (I think it is among registered voters, not likely voters, but there is no info at the link.) Just as interesting is the weekly job approval by demographic chart comparing the last four full weeks. Among the highlights, Obama gets slightly more approval from females than males, 54% to | Read More »
What is wrong with Republican Senators? Do they want to continue in the minority forever? The MSM has just reported that Luger (RINO-Ind) indicates he will vote for Sotomayor as a Supreme Court Justice. Listen up you idiot. The Democrats do not need a single Republican to place this lying piece of garbage on the Supreme Court. This is their excuse for a nominee. Let | Read More »
Reading some of the recap of Sotomayor’s hearing on Bench Memos, I get the impression that she is very big on stare decisis, i.e. the attempt to respect and not contradict previous rulings by the same court or higher courts of the same jurisdiction. (As I am no lawyer, I hope I have summarized this concept correctly.) What worries me about this testimony is that | Read More »
First, your reading assignment is II Samuel 11:1 to 12:25. It should be beneficial even to those of you who are non-religious conservatives. Although it is primarily religious, there are some good political lessons here, too. At the very least, it should give you some insight into the mindset of those of us who are more spiritually oriented. Let me be clear. I am not | Read More »
From the diaries by Kevin. Part of the health care plan problem in the U.S. is that it does not use the free enterprise system as well as it could to contain costs. Some reasons for these problems are federal and state government mandates and regulations. Outside of government regulations however, there is one health care policy that underutilized the power of capitalism to contain | Read More »
Hat tip: Club for Growth This video should turn your blood to ice with fright: What really gets me is the Orwellian use of the term, “single-payer”. Just who is this payer? This is just the start. If it is good for healthcare, why not other important industries like energy? First they strangle private enterprise with regulations and then they come riding on their white-washed | Read More »
Despite all the best efforts of the Obama administration, Iraq continues to improve. For the first time since the beginning of the Iraq war, coalition troop fatalities have dropped to single digitals over the course of a month. We only lost 9 soldiers in the entire month of March, and half of those were non-hostile fatalities. There has not been a hostile fatality since | Read More »
First, thumbs up to Sen. McCain. One of his few endearing qualities as a GOP candidate was his record and stance against wasteful government spending especially against pork in general and earmarks in specific. It is good to see he is continuing that fight as he settles back into his senatorial duties. On the heals of passing their porkulus bill that funded all kinds of | Read More »
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