http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:14:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (H/T Lori_Z ) The “feminists” don’t speak for me: Because I believe that women are miracle workers through our extraordinary capacity to nurture life within and to bring forth children. To me, the primacy of unrestricted abortion in the “feminist” agenda reveals an insidious movement to deny women our ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2009/08/13/why-the-%e2%80%9cfeminists%e2%80%9d-don%e2%80%99t-speak-for-me-the-diary-of-a-mom-supremacist/ This morning I learned that my former neighbor, Jo the Factory Worker will be voting for McCain/Palin. Her husband Joe the Deli Worker is undecided but leans Obama/Biden. This should be a jolt to any Obama supporter because Joe and Jo’s demographic profile suggests that Sen. Obama should ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/11/01/an-encouraging-anecdote-pa/ Sometime in the 1970s, my Mom, a lifelong Republican, and my Dad, a Democrat-turned-Independent, heard young Sen. Joe Biden speak at a graduation ceremony. They were so moved by his embrace of common sense American values that he was their clear favorite in the run up to the 1988 ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/10/28/sen-biden-defends-americas-true-great-unif/ Every year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Catholics are asked to contribute to a special collection for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). This year, the CCHD collection will be taken up at the 22 November weekend Masses.The stated mission of CCHD is:to ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/10/10/american-catholics-deprive-acorn-of-1-milli/ Dear Representative, Like many Pennsylvanians, ten days ago I became aware that a crisis in the United States financial system threatened to send our country into a full scale depression unless a $700 billion bailout bill was enacted quickly. Subsequent news revealed that certain Members of Congress ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/10/02/dear-state-legislature-please-hold-congress/ Demagogic cries such as, "The rich should pay more taxes," and "The oil companies are greedy," are difficult to counter because they are short, simple and easy to believe. At four minutes, this video is longer than the average attention span, but the straightforward explanation and visual effects ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/09/19/economics-101-2/ It’s not scientific and the sample size is small, but here is some raw data from my phone banking efforts on 9/8 and 9/15: 64 phone calls (32 each week) to likely voters, not all were Republicans. 9 McCain supporters (3 last week/6 yesterday) 8 Undecided (5 last week/3 ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/09/16/phone-banking-pennsylvania-its-still-the-e/ If I were Vice President and not a stay at home mom, the first slide in my morning brief would show the location of my deployed son’s unit. I would be especially vigilant in foreign policy meetings to ensure our decisions would not unnecessarily risk the lives of anybody’s ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/09/02/if-i-were-vp-and-not-a-stay-at-home-mom/ Senator John McCain’s substantive responses and unflappable demeanor at his town hall meeting in York, PA on Tuesday filled me with hope for the fall presidential debates. Based on McCain’s performance, I’d say he could beat the silver-tongued, glass-jawed Senator Barack Obama in a debate on Obama’s terms, moderated ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/08/15/in-any-debate-id-put-my-money-on-mccain/ Russia’s recent invasion of Georgia sent me to the shelves to peruse my undergraduate Soviet/Russian politics books. I found the following passage in Hedrick Smith’s The New Russians (1991) that rings true of the Democratic Party today: In an open letter to Izvestia, [Gorbachev advisor Alexandr] Yakovlev argued that ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/08/12/yesterdays-communists-todays-democrats/ Hey RedState Choir! I need to stop preaching to you and start working on some letters to the editor, so please excuse the brevity of my report. Upon entering the House chamber, I expected to see a Republican pep rally. Instead, it was much more like stepping into ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/08/08/gop-house-unplugged-thursday-7-aug/ Dear Obama Girl, With all of the presumptive Democratic nominee’s recent position changes, I’m sure you’re feeling hurt. I wrote the following new lyrics to the tune of ”I Got a Crush on Obama” to help you through your crisis: Please read on... VERSE 1 You made me hot, then left me ... http://www.redstate.com/uma_richie/2008/07/18/dear-obama-girl/