http://www.redstate.com/stephc Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:29:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The author of the article likens it to a Tennesee Williams play. Mary Landrieu sold out the country for $300 million, not $100 million as previously reported. Dana Milbank is right. It is a play but nothing really like those from Williams. The script has become old and worn from ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/11/22/no-guilt-only-gall/ It's often quite difficult to talk about once having been an abused spouse because it elicits expressions of sympathy and overshadows the point of the posts or articles. It's not about sympathy for me but looking out for my country. I'm okay. We are not okay. There have been a ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/11/19/understanding-narcissism-is-understanding-obama/ Remember the day it became an epithet and Geoge W. Bush was labeled such with his "cowboy" diplomacy? Now, I'm a hillbilly, not a cowgirl, but recently I during a conversation with a friend she suddenly asked me who was my favorite famous cowboy. She chuckled at my answer. When ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/11/11/nothing-wrong-with-being-a-cowboy/ Individual freedom is being assaulted from so many different directions the sheer weight of the assaults can cause the hardiest of us to buckle. Yet, there are still some who believe the government has only our best interests at heart. I find that sentiment mind-blowing in the face of what ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/11/03/if-you-believe-in-a-magnanimous-government-this-wont-matter-to-you/ The United States has for decades been known as the leader of the free world. Not anymore. Obama with his speech brought rousing applause from those present at the United Nations to hear it. I'm unsure whether the applause was for promises of appeasement or his New World Order. Responsibility and leadership ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/09/26/netanyahu-picked-up-the-mantle-obama-tossed-aside/ And we'll never be able to call them liars for it again. And more reason not to support the health bill. Buried deep in the bill, pages 837-845 with a small segment in between dealing with Native Americans, are sections about HOME VISITATION PROGRAMS FOR FAMILIES which will be ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/09/09/its-for-the-children-literally/ Next Sunday is my 51st birthday. I won't be here on that day so I'm "celebrating" a bit early. For the first time in my life I'm scared of my government. That's a first I never wanted to experience. In every life there is always some uncertainty and insecurities. We can ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/08/30/some-firsts-you-dont-want-to-experience/ The Huffington Post is celebrating today because the Color of Change has managed to pressure companies into pulling or not consider advertising on Fox's Glenn Beck Show. The new companies distancing themselves from Beck include Airware Inc. (makers of Brez anti-snoring aids), Ancestry.com, AT&T, Blaine Labs Inc., Campbell Soup Company, Clorox, ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/08/24/if-theyre-so-dumb-they-cant-do-simple-math/ Supposedly, Cooper is taking calls and setting up meetings but he's not noting how many for or against the health care bill that is being so actively debated. In the linked article, he says he's voting against the bill when Congress reconvenes. "I take constituents' calls and messages as seriously as ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/08/22/lip-service-or-why-jim-cooper-tn-05-must-go/ District 6 Tennesseans don't get to ask anything of the "honorable" Jim Cooper. He canceled his appearance at West End Middle School out of fear. After rumor spread that Rep. Jim Cooper would be holding a public town hall meeting — rather than delivering the opening remarks to parents and students ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/08/13/under-the-anybody-but-jim-cooper-files/ It would be so easy, so very easy, to buy into the "let the government handle it" meme but it only seems easy. I would have to live with myself in the mirror every day. It's not a pretty sight already but it would be downright horrifying afterward. It's not ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/08/07/no-health-insurance-here-but-still-a-resounding-no-to-the-health-bill/ At least not in polite company. They're calling in the big guns.  Policymakers, scientists and marketers should look at these factors to figure out what might prod people take action, the task force reported at the association's annual convention in Toronto. [...] Despite warnings from scientists that humans need to make changes now ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/08/05/i-cant-think-of-an-appropriate-title/ Just as I couldn't believe my ears this morning as I listened to the entire speech, something I'm not inclined to do if there's something really interesting on, I still can't believe it in this clip that has been transcribed: While citing Africa’s sometimes “tragic past” and acknowledging the ravages of ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/07/11/well-well-well/ He laughed. There is no point in being outraged, really there isn't. "Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' -- I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs." Obama joined the crowd in laughing at the crack about Limbaugh's "kidneys." Apparently, it's funny to ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/05/11/and-what-did-obama-do/ Take a break. Although I could say this is something similar to what Congress is doing, I won't. Instead, I'll just laugh and enjoy the humor of it. Nailing jello to a wall. It can be done.  Oh, and open thread. H/T Attack Machine http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/04/25/tired-of-politics/ At least the Republican flow, that is. Napolitano is an idiot; no question about that but to call for her resignation will change nothing.  As one put it: "I don't know that the secretary understands the depth of the disruption that she's caused," Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, told FOX News on Thursday, ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/04/23/going-against-the-flow/ But, would someone please explain to me how the banks could be any worse off from releasing the stress tests? The disarray highlights what threatens to be a lose-lose situation for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: If all the banks pass, the tests’ credibility will be questioned, and if some banks get ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/04/19/i-know-im-no-economist/ Janet Napolitano appeared on Fox this morning and said she apologizes: "To the extent veterans read it as an accusation ... an apology is owed," she said during an on-air interview on FOX News Thursday, a day after veterans' groups and members of Congress blasted her for the report, which they ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/04/16/thats-an-apology/ Today is tax day. We here at RedState know what that means. It is no ordinary tax day of rushing to mail off returns before the magic hour or the usual grumbling about how much your tax bill ended up being, "why couldn't I have that deduction, too?", ,or "I ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/04/15/the-forest-for-the-trees/ I don't have much to say about this but I didn't see anywhere to insert it into comments so let's declare it an open thread; a place to put all those extraneous tidbits of the day that don't seem to fit anywhere else. Of course, you know that as swiftly as ... http://www.redstate.com/stephc/2009/04/07/open-thread/