http://www.redstate.com/malbis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:15:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UPDATED: President Obama met China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, on the Asian Apology Tour. As I predicted, President Obama bowed again, this time in a country in which bowing is considered an outdated custom indicative of a servile position at odds with the "social equality" that is part of ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/24/obama-bows-to-chinese-premier-and-president-updated-where-will-president-obama-bow-next-and-why/ While I fully agree with Erick Erickson's post that that the health care bill must not be just about abortion, I, and a lot of other Americans, are now on the horns of a true moral dilemma. The Democrats seem to be making publically-funded abortion another litmus test for ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/19/the-senate-bill-you-personally-pay-for-abortionsor-you-go-to-jail/ President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan on his current tour of Asia. It was a full bow, with his upper body almost at right angles to the ground. Here's the video: Here's what the New York Times had to say about the President of the United States ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/14/where-will-president-obama-bow-next-and-why/ Doug Hoffman conceded defeat on election night after being told that he was down by more than 5,300 votes with 93% of the vote counted, and that he had nearly lost his own stronghold of Oswego County. His concession allowed Bill Owens to be sworn in as Representative of ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/12/doug-hoffman-might-have-won-ny-23-after-all/ What if the Fort Hood shooter had been named Major Joseph Robert Lee, instead of Major Nidal Malik Hasan? What if he had been a Caucasian born in Selma, Alabama, instead of an Arab-American born in Arlington, Virginia? What if knowledge of his family roots had caused Joseph Robert Lee to list ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/10/what-if-his-name-had-been-joe-bob-lee/ Dave Camp, ranking Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee, today released a letter from the Joint Committee on Taxation revealing that the Pelosi health care bill currently being forced to the floor for a vote (H.R. 3962) includes a penalty of imprisonment of up to five years, ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/06/speaker-says-buy-15k-of-health-insurance-or-5-years-in-jail/ The official U.S. unemployment rate hit 10.2% in October, the highest since the recession of 1983. But bad as that is, at least we are nowhere near the unemployment levels of the Great Depression, right? Wrong. That official 10.2% figure really doesn't tell the truth about unemployment in America. The ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/11/06/why-the-true-unemployment-rate-is-more-than-twice-as-bad-as-102/ If you are a Republican strategist, Party leader or candidate for election in 2010, looking at the multitude of current polls is probably giving you lots of reasons to feel good. Republicans are generally leading or at least heavily competitive in generic Congressional ballots. That hasn't happened in ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2009/10/27/ny-23-the-poll-that-matters-most/ The Dow has closed about 350 points as I write this, and if the 777 point drop on Monday is "blamed" on the House rejecting the Pelosi Bailout Bill, then we have to blame this drop on the Senate passing their version of a Bailout last night. Fair is ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/10/02/how-can-we-really-stop-another-great-depressi/ The few--the very few--who voted against the Bailout tonight. 15 Republicans, 9 Democrats and 1 Independent. Allard (R) Barasso (R) Brownback (R) Bunning (R) Cochran (R) Crapo (R) DeMint (R) Dole (R) Enzi (R) Inhofe (R) Roberts (R) Sessions (R) Shelby (R) Vitter (R) Wicker (R) Sanders (I) Cantwell (D) Dorgan (D) Feingold (D) Johnson (D) Landrieu (D) Nelson (FL) (D) Stabenow (D) Tester (D) Wyden (D) As gamecock has written elsewhere, ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/10/01/those-who-voted-no/ The opposition to the Bailout Bill from voters/constituents keeps on growing. Forget the polls that show people are against the Bailout by a two to one margin--something else is even more significant than the polls. The phones of Congressional Representatives and Senators are ringing off their hooks, with people complaining ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/10/01/congressional-phones-and-emails-bombarded/ Dear John, We haven't heard a lot from you lately. Not a lot since last week, really, when you suspended your presidential campaign and announced that you were going back to D.C. to fix the economic crisis that Congress and the nation suddenly discovered it was in. We know why we ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/10/01/john-were-waiting-for-you-to-do-something/ Nancy Pelosi failed to convince 94 Democrat members of the House of Representatives to vote for the $700 Billion Dollar Bailout Bill she and Harry Reid crafted. That should be the headline on the mainstream meadia news shows today. Of course, it will not be what will be said. ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/09/29/house-democrats-torpedo-bailout-bill/ It is becoming increasingly obvious that Sen. Barack Obama should not be speaking in public without a teleprompter and a prepared speech. Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can put lipstick on ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/09/09/lipstick-on-a-pig/ In the midst of all of the rhetoric blowing heatedly from the Obama campaign, one question needs to be asked of Senator Obama. And asked forcefully. Why is the fact that the death toll in Chicago this summer is about double the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq not ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/09/04/it-is-safer-to-be-in-iraq-or-afghanistan-than/ Let me get this straight. Dan McLaughlin, in a story headlined here at RedState, has pointed out a hit-piece on the DNC website against potential McCain VP Eric Cantor that accuses him of being...Jewish? Is the DNC actually admitting in print an anti-Semitic bias? And has anyone asked for a comment ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/08/20/change-you-can-believe-in/ Erick has pointed out the Rep. Heath Shuler situation, so I won't duplicate the information here. I'll simply say that first-term Democrat Congressman Shuler appears to have a scandal brewing at a very bad time...and I'd like to tell you a bit about his opponent. Shuler is holding a seat ... http://www.redstate.com/malbis/2008/08/14/help-heath-shulers-republican-opponent-in-no/