http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews Just another RedState: Conservative News and Community weblog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:42:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TODD: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - can you understand why it is offensive to some for this terrorist to get all the legal privileges of any American citizen? OBAMA: I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him. TODD: But having ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/11/18/captain-kangaroo/ A battle royale is brewing in Washington that may prove to be truly epic in its scope.  It has been days since the POTUS has blamed someone else for his problems.  He must find a scapegoat.  The collectivist playbook demands a fall guy.  It cannot operate without someone to smear ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/11/18/potus-versus-totus/ Minnesota's Secretary of Fraud State, Mark "ACORN" Ritchie has published new rules regarding the handling and proposed mishandling of absentee ballots.  In an attempt to make stealing administering an election more efficiently, he has proposed 'friendlier' absentee ballot instructions and procedures.  This way his office can more adeptly destroy preserve ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/11/14/caveat-emptor/ Regardless of the outcome of the November 3rd election in New York-23, there are some serious lessons for the GOP to extract. This learning curve will be steep because they are so certain of their own superiority and statecraft. But, the arrogance of the bean counters and number ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/31/hard-lessons-for-the-gop/ First it was the government option. Then it became the public option. Soon after they tried to label it the competitive option and that didn't work. Now we have this. "Pelosi said that the public plan, which she prefers to call a "consumer option," would compete with private ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/30/whats-in-a-name/ The common collectivist narrative contains an important element to make it work. The Democratic Party relies on a pedestrian belief that business and the worker are at odds in the political landscape. Big, mean businesses are miserly Republicans and generous, good-hearted labor interests are benevolent Democrats. That ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/30/growing-plutocracy/ The Collectivist News Network (CNN) has a new, fresh, smiley faced ‘conservative’ they’ve added to their stellar roster of David Gergen, Hillary’s hairdresser, and Ed Rollins who wrote in January that Barack Obama was just the sort of leader that we need. David Frum, as many of you know, ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/30/life-with-frum-py/ Memo to Democrats: Please, oh please listen to and heed E.J. Dionne’s advice from a commentary written for the Washington Compost. In “How to win an election, post-Obama,” Dionne lays out his own warped, convoluted way for Democrats to keep winning. It is so laughable and ignorant that ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/30/i-hope-they-listen-to-him/ New York 23 is a fascinating interplay in terms of political science. Following the Obama election and the takeover of Congress, the bean counters at Republican headquarters developed a Progressive strategy of demographic chess instead of actual use of political persuasion. This tried and true liberal philosophy is ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/25/gameplay/ There are no more spin doctors in the Democratic Party. They are simply dissemblers. They are deliberately making up stories out of thin air to create a firewall protecting their "Dear Leader". Gone are the days when strategists and party pundits tried to twist the facts to ... http://www.redstate.com/lukematthews/2009/10/24/no-spin-zone/