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Posted at 7:52pm on May 17, 2008 CA Voters Should “Recall” Why Prop 22 Was Abandoned

By GaryWiram

In 2003, California held a statewide circus known as the Gubernatorial Recall election. That election actually considered two questions … Yes or No, should their sitting Governor, Gray Davis, be recalled? … And, if Yes, who of the 154 candidates should replace him? The slate of candidates included Actors, a Lieutenant Governor, a State Senator, Business People, a Porn Star, a Comedian, etc., etc.

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Posted at 5:27pm on May 17, 2008 I Have Had Enough!!

By BigGator5

Open Letter To RedState Directors:

I join RedState shortly after joining the Straight Talk Express and deciding to donate my newly earn money to John McCain's campaign. I wanted to go somewhere, where I could cheer on McCain and complain about Democrats with my follow Republicans. I always seem to join communities that are slanted to the left and I thought this year I join a Pro-McCain group where I can finally feel at home. I mean, how much more Republican can a site be, calling itself RedState?

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Posted at 3:13am on May 15, 2008 Announcing RedState 3.0

By Erick

Here's the deal. On May 19th we'll be publicly unveiling RedState 3.0. It's going to be a beta site though. We have about two weeks of fixing IE 6.0 bugs left before we turn this site off and turn that site on.

Our plan is to invite in those people who contributed financially to the development first. Once they've had a few days we'll invite our Facebook friends. We're trying to get people in a few hundred at a time, as we work out the final IE 6.0 kinks.

Within the next two to three weeks, we'll turn off this site and RS 3.0 will be live for everyone.

We know that the site will leak out over the next few weeks. We're absolutely fine with that. It'll help in the testing. But once we go live, we'll scrub the database erasing the present contents of RS 3.0 and the user database. Then we'll import our present users from this site so, unlike the last time, you won't have to get a new password or anything like that.

If you gave financially to the cause, check your email on Monday, May 19th. Otherwise, you might want to track down our Facebook group.

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Posted at 6:19pm on May 9, 2008 The disgusting media and the floozies who work for it!

By Jaded

I would usually blow off a story like this as very irrelevant and petty and as a matter of fact when I first saw it on Michelle Malkins site I thought, eh....but I listened to this tape and I cannot express enough the disgust I truly felt.

Whomever these floozies are who are sighing and moaning and telling someone to get out of the way so they can see Obama's crotch (I personally think he is posing just for them) should be fired.

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Posted at 8:45am on May 7, 2008 Politics 101 (Day 1)

By Raymond McKinney

Course Description: Politics 101 is the basic course required for entry level candidates in the political process. This course will engage the student at the basic levels of politics including the art of communication and presentation. The course will focus on creating issue positions that have little or no real impact and yet gain the attention of the voter. At the end of the course the student will be able to address an issue in such a manner that every voter believes you have solved the problem without you actually having to do so.

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Posted at 7:28am on May 7, 2008 Black & Right Is Back

By BobParks

As some of you may know, I am no longer with "Outside The Wire". It's a long story best left as a learning experience.

The Black & Right site is busy transferring all the posts from the OTW site, so I won't be posting much until, hopefully, sometime this afternoon.

My OTW Series Finale video is posted for your enjoyment pleasure.

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Posted at 1:58pm on May 6, 2008 RS Malaise - It's a Question of Seduction

By streetwise

Things have gotten a bit fractious at Red State lately, as I'm sure we have all noticed.

Part of it is the natural surge of passion in a presidential election year where the stakes are very high.

But part of it can best be explained by the phenomenon explored in the film Bridget Jones' Diary . In trying to explain her disastrous fling with her oversexed boss, Bridget notes that she was seduced by the informality of the (email) messaging medium into flirting with the office scoundrel.

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Posted at 7:39pm on May 5, 2008 Press Lied. Facts Died.

By Obis_Sister

Back, oh about a month ago, Breath of the Beast's Yaacov ben Moshe wrote an outstanding (as usual, everything he writes is outstanding!) piece on Lies Our Media Tells Us. Be sure to note his examples.

A case could be made that in the age of television, and especially since 1967, there has not been a news event of major transformative effect that has not been presented to the public without serious distortions. Some have been outright lies. The seriousness of the effects of these distortions cannot be understated.

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Posted at 6:06pm on May 5, 2008 Another regular takes a leave of absense...

By GordonTaylor

My colleague and friend Dave Hinz has decided to take his leave until at least after the election. He will look in from time to time, of that I am sure.

While I disagree with my very good friend on his LOA, I support him fully and await his return.

To quote a little of what he has said...

I will no longer be posting at RedState until after the election. It has become clear to me that the atmosphere has changed over the past few weeks, and I will no longer be welcome.

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Posted at 6:19pm on Apr. 30, 2008 Studying Conservatives In The Mist

By Dan McLaughlin

Barron YoungSmith at The New Republic thinks conservatism should be studied in schools. Up to a point, YoungSmith is right; the ignorance of conservative ideas never ceases to amaze. But I would disagree with this:

American conservatism actually has nothing to do with Burke, other than drawing street cred off his deceased personage. The conservative movement began with William F. Buckley, Frank Meyer, and Russell Kirk himself during the 1950s, in a magazine called National Review--and it was revolutionary, bombastic, and eager to overhaul American society, not Burkean.

This rather reinforces the point about ignorance. Some people just can't understand the difference between wanting to remake society and wanting to remake government to get it out of society's way. As I have said before: conservatives believe that governments cannot change men, but we do believe that men can and should change their governments. That's why Burke himself was favorably disposed towards the American Revolution (YoungSmith's cramped concept of Burkeanism assumes that a conservative can never be a revolutionary) but not the French.

Posted at 10:53am on Apr. 30, 2008 Obama Has Played with the Fiery Rev. Wright for 20 Years, and Now He Gets Burned Personally

By Pensereo

Obama Has Played with the Fiery Rev. Wright for 20 Years, and Now He Gets Burned Personally

SUMMARY
a. Rev. Wright is well known as being outspoken and making comments that many regard as negative.
b. Obama has maintained loyalty to Rev. Wright for 20 years in spite of many of Rev. Wright's outspoken negative comments about the United States and about white people.
c. Rev. Wright has known Obama for 20 years.

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Posted at 3:22pm on Apr. 29, 2008 Lefties see problem in Obama presser (UPDATE)

A question of judgement

By Soren Dayton

Todd Beeton at MyDD said it, not me. I'm just quoting:

First is Obama's statement that he guesses he didn't know Wright as well as he thought he did. "The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years." That's a big problem for someone running on judgment.

UPDATE:

Openleft:

It is a jarring juxtaposition to hear a candidate denounce his own pastor while simultaneously talking about the need for mutual understanding and to bridge the divides between people. The whole thing actually feels like a logical fallacy.

What else is out there? Put it in the comments!

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Posted at 6:50pm on Apr. 28, 2008 Obama as a Flip-Flopper: When He Was an Illinois State Senator from Chicago, Obama Supported Suspension of Sales Tax on Gas

By Pensereo

*Obama as a Flip-Flopper: When He Was an Illinois State Senator from Chicago, Obama Supported Suspension of Sales Tax on Gas*

In 2000, as an Illinois state senator from Chicago, Obama
SUPPORTED suspension of sales tax on gas in Illinois. He was
very happy to help his Chicago constituents and to tell the media about it. See article below.

Now, in 2008, Obama is AGAINST tax relief for gasoline for all

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Posted at 8:34am on Apr. 28, 2008 Blogger Protection Act of 2008

By lesliecarbone

Two years after liberal Republican John McCain teamed up with liberal Democrat Russ Feingold to eviserate the First Amendment, a federal court ordered the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to begin regulating expression on the Internet. Two years after that, the FEC passed a rule exempting blogs and their authors from this exercise of federal overreach. But a regulatory agency's rule is only as strong as the commitment to its principles of the presidential administration in power. And with the impending disaster of a McCain, Obama, or Clinton Administration, the Constitution faces at least four more years in the wilderness.

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