http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:13:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My Marine recruiter, Sgt. Bruce, was stationed in Beirut when this all went down. It's my honor to remember not only his sacrifice but the sacrifice of his friends and every Marine who gave the ultimate sacrifice that day!!! On October 23, 2009, thousands will stop to remember the 241 Marines, ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/10/23/october-23-1983-beirut-remembered/ Center-right folks have known for years that the “do as we say not as we do” Democrat hypocrisy knows no bounds but this scene from a surprise visit to a gathering of Democrat leaders by Governor Schwarzenegger at the invitation and request of former San Francisco Mayor and Assembly Speaker ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/10/10/more-democrat-hypocrisy-ca-gov-told-to-kiss-my-a-by-dem-leader/ The other night Rep. Grayson said Republican want the sick to die quicker. Yesterday instead of apologizing for his childish remarks Grayson instead said “I’ll apologize to the dead.” Grayson then goes on to cite a Harvard study that says 45,000 Americans die each year due to being uninsured. Problem is ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/10/01/grayson-ill-apologize-to-the-dead-cites-single-payer-activists-study-on-house-floor/ Shining light on Carol Browner and Outing the 57 U.S. Senators Who Voted to Keep the Socialist Climate Czar Funded. Yesterday, the Senate voted to table an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill that would have prohibited any funds appropriated under the bill from being used by President Obama’s Socialist climate ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/09/25/the-senate-votes-to-fund-socialist-climate-czar-carol-browner/ Hollywood Leftists and Idiot Environmentalists Got Played “No more Oil for Money!” For over a year now I’ve been following this sham of a lawsuit and detailing how the Ecuadorian government has been perpetrating a fraud on an American company and international community with the largest environmental class action suits in history ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/09/01/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-judicial-misconduct-caught-on-tape/ Even after Sarah Palin, as a private citizen, had won the battle against "The Death Panels" by having the language stricken from the Senate version of the bill, in one weeks time... Far-left union-backed group Americans United For Change are targeting Sarah's fans on Facebook with an Ad calling her ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/08/24/obamas-union-thugs-use-new-ad-to-go-after-palin-supporters/ The current dust-up between Fox News and NBC News/MSNBC has put the focus back on GE and their historically overwhelming penchant for supporting socialism and some would say the destruction of free markets. The so called feud between Fox News channel's Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is being intentionally over ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/08/15/ge-bringing-socialism-and-other-bad-things-to-life/ Republican's need to champion a real stimulus plan! The title is a quote by Victorian era English philosopher Herbert Spencer and is a perfect allegory for Stimulus 2.0 and the Obama Administration in general. We all warned against the first stimulus bill, we knew this was nothing more than what Newt Gingrich ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/07/09/the-ultimate-result-of-shielding-men-from-the-effects-of-folly-is-to-fill-the-world-with-fools/ With the passage of the hideous Cap-n-Trade bill, otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey bill, in the House of Representatives last week and Dave Hinz insertion of a great article by Matt Tiabbi called The Great American Bubble Machine into his Morning Coffee post today, I thought I’d continue my series ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/07/08/the-coming-green-bubble-how-goldman-sachs-will-fleece-america-again/ It’s fascinating the way in which the war of words over Heath Care Reform is being played out here in America. People on both sides of the issue feverishly debating the merits of their case while the folks in the middle worry about yet another massive spending bill and the ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/07/03/illegal-aliens-health-care-reforms%e2%80%99-dirty-little-secret/ The Administration, recalling how effective the "Harry and Louise" ads were in defeating Clinton's Health Care Reform, looks like it has decided to use the same tactic in reverse to push through ObamaCare™ hoping to play on the public's heartstrings. For those who don't remember here's the original "Harry and Louise" ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/07/01/dnc-looks-to-use-harry-and-louise-ads-to-push-obamacare%e2%84%a2/ In a press release issued today, Greenpeace, has joined a growing list of concerned parties in opposing Pelosi's National Energy Tax - The Waxman-Markey Climate Bill. Updated pic from our friend Caleb Howe Greenpeace joins Friends of the Earth, a coalition of 186 national and state leaders who oppose Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade (Tax) ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/06/26/greenpeace-joins-growing-opposition-to-pelosis-national-energy-tax/ Today as ABC runs it's "All Obama, All Day" programing dedicating huge chunks of its broadcast day to push the Presidents Health Care Reform - which I and many dub ObamaCare™ there is growing opposition to the presidents plan from all quarters including his own party. A major issue most people ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/06/24/abc-perpetuates-obama%e2%80%99s-malpractice-on-health-care-reform/ Striking video from Iran of the militia opening fire on the crowd. Apparently it was shot from a balcony on a cell phone and posted by BBC Persian, which has disabled embedding. http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/06/20/striking-video-from-iran-of-the-militia-opening-fire-on-the-crowd/ As you may or may not know The Minority Report has been soliciting funds for this years Move America Forward’s Troopathon “Honor Their Service.” We need your help to send the largest shipment of care packages to the troops in HISTORY!!! On Monday MAF started a blog competition called Troopathon Blogger ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/06/18/troopathon-blogger-shoot-out-our-troops-tmr-and-hot-air-need-your-help/ Posted for Dave Hinz with permission A little Digg love “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” We consistently hear Conservative pundits, ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/06/07/we-can-make-socialism-work/ Gun owners and liberty loving people from all across America should be educating themselves and gearing up to stop a very dangerous piece of legislation currently being brought before the House Judiciary Committee. H.R. 2159: Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009 seeks to permit the Attorney ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/05/28/gun-owners-at-risk-over-new-federal-terrorist-legislation/ The Obama administration keeps telling me that transparency is this administrations main priority but in the case of judge Sotomayor's Duke University video and the spin by the White House that the judge was taken out of context (standard operating procedure when the left is caught with their pants down) ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/05/28/dude-wheres-my-transparency-obama-and-sotomayors-duke-video/ Liberal critics love to mock the right when we use the tag lines Socialism or Communism when describing the direction President Obama is taking our country. Ridiculing people and facts is SOP (standard operating procedure) in their circles mainly because it makes them feel superior and gives them a warm ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/05/22/obamas-state-run-tv-slouching-toward-socialism/ Representative Pete Hoekstra pointed out today that Speaker Pelosi inferred, in no uncertain terms, the she was putting Politics above National Security. I pulled some clips from the presser today in which it's clear that Pelsoi was more interested in politics than protecting this country. Essentially Nancy Pelsoi felt that it was ... http://www.redstate.com/steve_foley/2009/05/14/pelsoi-politics-are-more-important-than-national-security/