http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:23:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2009 certainly has been a tough year, and many might think that we have less to be thankful about this Thanksgiving than most. This is untrue. Every day we should be thankful that we live in the United States of America. Because a bad day in America is better than ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/24/much-to-be-thankful-for/ The ruthless media attacks on Sarah Palin may be seen as just more assaults on a conservative. But in fact they demonstrate a rabid bias against “women” from one faction in America – male media liberals - that always has claimed that it stands for “women’s rights”.   But in truth male ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/23/palins-media-treatment-shows-libs-misogyny/ “I can see his suntan all the way from here,” a TV news reporter said jubilantly as president John F. Kennedy descended the stairs from Air Force One in Texas shortly before being assassinated on November 22, 1963.   This Sunday marks the 46th anniversary of that day.   Just after the killing another ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/20/kennedy-assassination-revisited/ On November 15, NBC’s Meet the Press offered a segment on education featuring former GOP House speaker Newt Gingrich, Obama education secretary Arne Duncan and black activist Al Sharpton.   The debate showed how much lip service to real reform is being paid by the Democrats who control our failing public ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/19/shadow-boxing-about-schools/ The environmental movement started out in the 1970s as a positive factor in American life. It advocated and then coerced the cleanup of the air, land and water; set standards for pollution and energy efficiency; and encouraged land preservation in wilderness areas.   Today, however, the modern enviro movement is causing pollution ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/18/environmentalists-themselves-are-the-polluters/ (This is the second in a series of columns on potential GOP presidential contenders for 2012.)   Some Republicans and conservatives may have previously shied away from Minnesota’s Republican governor Tim Pawlenty as a potential presidential contender in 2012 because he seemed dull. But he recently has been speaking forcefully and thus ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/17/pawlenty-genuine-2012-contender/ “We tortured somebody!” Democrat Pennsylvania US congressman Joe Sestak said shortly after it was announced by attorney general Eric Holder that five major terror suspects now are going to be tried in New York City, including accused 9/11 ‘mastermind’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed along with Ramsi Binalshibh, Walid Muhammed bin Attash, ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/16/911-returns-to-new-york/ Summit meetings "are for when nobody knows what to do,” wryly observed Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal commenting on president Obama’s call for an economic summit conference in December to discuss the nation’s fiscal woes.   And Moore is right. Because Moore is a realist who understands actual economics… you ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/13/another-economic-summit-yawn/ The Democrat response to their recent election-day thumping is rather incredulous. For instance, while Sarah Palin phoned in her support for conservative US Congress candidate Douglas Hoffman in upstate New York, Obama made five personal appearances on behalf of Democrat incumbent governor Jon Corzine in New Jersey. Yet when Hoffman ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/12/hoffman-bid-shows-conservative-muscle/ Today, November 11, is Veterans Day, a time to honor those who have served our nation in a way that many of us never have and never would. May God bless those who serve in place of - and on behalf of - those of us who do not.   Those millions ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/11/today-is-veterans-day/ On November 5, 2009, a Muslim US Army major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on fellow soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and injuring 30. On April 16, 2007, a Korean-American student named Cho Seung-Hui opened fire on his fellow students at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/10/virginia-tech-to-fort-hood/ Twenty years ago today, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was breached and thus began the end of this blight on the world's political landscape. Thirty years ago last week, on November 4, 1979, Islamic militants seized the American embassy in Tehran, Iran and held hostages there for 444 ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/09/berlin-wall-anniversary/ The very first message was sent over the internet 40 years ago on October 30, 1969. Today the internet has developed in a very short period into a central tool of our economy and our public media. And just as the internet is emerging as the most democratic media forum ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/06/should-the-internet-be-neutral/ That White House operatives would claim that president Obama was not watching the election returns Tuesday evening shows one thing – that Obama and his inner circle truly are contemptuous of America. Because anyone who purports to claim that Obama was watching a basketball game – or watching a documentary ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/05/white-house-election-denial/ Conservative radio talk-show king Rush Limbaugh raised eyebrows when he predicted recently that Barack Obama would be a one-term president like Democrat Jimmy Carter. And with significant Republican victories in the November 3 elections, the Democrats could be headed for big losses in 2010 and 2012, including the White House.   In ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/04/election-results-slam-obama/ The founding of America was based on honesty and truth-seeking because that is the basis of liberty. To undermine the truth and manipulate the facts the way that liberals do every day leads to a slippery slope where the government uses its friends in the media to turn little falsehoods ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/03/conservative-vigilance-now-more-than-ever/ The economy has expanded by 3.1% and this appears to be good news. Except that this was the report in July 2008 when growth figures were first announced for the 2nd quarter of 2008. They later were revised downward.   And what stoked the economy plus 3.1% when the 1st quarter of ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/11/02/false-economic-rebound/ In 2008, Americans spent a whopping $6 billion on Halloween. Today there are 2,500 “haunted” attractions nationwide. Thousands of temporary Halloween stores now pop up after Labor Day. And you may say, “So what?” and “It’s just fun, isn’t it?”   But it is a disturbing trend. Because it represents a cultural ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/10/30/unhappy-halloween/ You know that liberalism has passed its melting point when a widely-known lefty activist and author like Barbara Ehrenreich writes a book attacking positive thinking.   In Bright-sided, How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America, Ehrenreich rightly criticizes some of the hype of the positive-thinking movement including motivational speakers ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/10/29/liberal-book-slams-positive-thinking/ Democrat US Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada currently is pushing a ‘public option’ plan in the health care bill now before the US Senate. President Obama has favored the public option as well. And repeatedly we are told that this public option – a polite way of saying ... http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2009/10/28/public-option-parallels-in-education-energy/