Rudyard Kipling wrote this poem some 95 years ago, reflecting on World War I, which had claimed the life of his only son – and the illusions that this war had swept away. The stanzas describe the age-old seduction of Progressivism in its various guises from the dawn of time, how people and nations whore after the “Gods of the Market Place” and cast off | Read More »
For those Republicans living in Cook County – or who know Cook County Republicans, Kevin DuJan over at Hillbuzz has posted this opportunity to change the culture of vote fraud by signing up as an Election Judge – and today is the deadline. DAILY DOOM ANTIDOTE: How YOU Can Help Defeat Barack Obama Today — Wednesday 9/26/2012 Please help spread the word to all your | Read More »
In all the excitement of discovering who won the latest plurality of voters in the latest primary, it is easy to lose the forest for the trees, which is that the purpose of our Presidential primary system is to reflect the preferences of our party’s voters in the selection of our candidate for the President. An examination of the voting thus far shows that we | Read More »
While I tend to not follow closely all the twists and turns of the primary season, I would present this analysis of the Republican primary race in advance of Wednesday’s candidate debate, aware that the picture might change quite a bit by the end of the week. In looking at the field of prospective nominees, at this time I’m most comfortable with a Perry run | Read More »
A new plague has been descending upon RedState as the primary season becomes more serious. No, I’m not talking about the quadrennial invasion of the luaP noR locusts looking for fresh foliage. Rather, its the entrance of the folks with the following screen names: [candidate's name]4prez (or variations on the theme) I seem to recall we earlier had the Sarah Palin variant, who was eventually | Read More »
Moe has made a good start on explaining the California drama, but the story is quite a bit more complex and contains another case study in the Law of (Predictably) Unanticipated Consequences. On one key point, though, I think Moe is not quite correct As near as I can make out, the Republicans will not budge on tax hikes (which would require a special election | Read More »
In all the discussion focusing on how the START treaty would affect our ability to build and deploy a missile defense system, very little has been mentioned to my knowledge about the strategic implications of this treaty. And in brief, what this treaty does is to ratify Russia’s status as a hegemonic regional power, which follows upon our previous decisions under this administration to grant | Read More »
Tomorrow will be an historic day is our effort to save our nation, our shining light on its hill, from having its light extinguished and the world cast into a millennium of darkness. As many have pointed out, we haven’t won anything yet, and we must be energetic in the next day to turn our current advantage in this battle into victory. Recognizing that this | Read More »
[from the diaries by haystack] We all recognize that an honest voting process is the foundation of representative government, and thus that electoral fraud denies our rights as citizens and is a rapid path to tyranny. This year we see evidence accumulating of organized and concerted efforts on the part of the Democratic Party and their principal allies, labor unions (especially SEIU), to undermine the | Read More »
Our local paper, the Oakland Tribune, came out with its endorsement for California Senate today. Some excerpts Generally, a three-term senator who has a leadership position in the majority party should be a relatively easy endorsement, especially if the opponent has never run for office before. However, that is not the case this year. Boxer has been in the Senate for 18 years, yet her | Read More »
[Update: 10/22/10 6:42 PM EDT: Rasmussen moves race from Solid Republican to Toss-up in just two weeks More confirmatory evidence of that the Toomey-Sestak race is now essentially a dead-heat comes from Rasmussen today, showing an unfavorable trend line: an increase in support for Sestak while Toomey maintains the same level of support, indicating a break in undecideds towards Sestak. Toomey 48% Sestak 44%, 7% | Read More »
As come down the home stretch to the crucial election, the media would like to have everyone thinking the election is about witches or tea party rage or a twenty-year-old article or all the other tricks they are utilizing to distract the voters from the Achilles heel of the Democratic politburo – which is that the economy is still in the toilet while they continue | Read More »
Here in Oakland, in addition to two high-visibility state-wide races for senator and governor, we also have a hotly contested three-way race for mayor (plus seven other also-ran candidates) in our first “instant run-off” election, which in turn is generating much speculation how this will upset the usual electoral calculus. Not to mention the almost smoking-gun evidence of a conspiracy by the local corrupt party* | Read More »
In what appears to an increasing tide of Democratic incumbents running for reelection who are desperately trying to distance themselves from the Obama adminstration, an new level of disavowal was set by Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA11) last Friday (10/1) when he deliberately kept secret the location and details of a local fundraising event for him featuring Vice President Joe Biden. McNerney downplays Biden visit Think | Read More »
Reading kowalski’s recent diary, People, It’s Time to Do Something Good a descriptive term that came to mind as descriptive of what he experienced is a word with a long political pedigree: radicalized Now the word “radical” literally means “root” – so radicalized means the process by one undergoes a root, or fundamental change. In the political sphere, this word indicates a sharp turn from | Read More »
I wanted to alert our RedState community to the launch of a new interactive website that exposes us all more directly to the cost of our massive government spending. The site, called MyGovCost.org, moves beyond simply clocking the aggregate deficit, and instead enables people to calculate the cost to themselves of various federal programs. Quoting from an announcement of the site’s launch: After a visitor | Read More »
This started as a comment to the comment thread on the diary titled O’Donnell and Lying To Save Lives: Was Castle Right to Withhold His Endorsement? before my comment got too long. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Just about everyone here has fallen in the trap that the diary author has set here …excepting mom2oneson | Read More »
Regardless of what happens in Delaware today, the truth still remains that having a good and virtuous philosophy and program is one thing, but the ability to spread this message and to convince a sufficient percentage of our fellow citizens to take it as their own is constrained by the messengers they come in contact with. Which then brings me to a military analogy: there | Read More »
I read today this Fox news story about a ROTC instructor in Worcester MA who’s being threatened with termination on June 15th if he doesn’t pay a $500 union agency fee by June 15. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/09/marine-refuses-pay-teacher-union-dues-faces-termination/ His name is Stephen Godin, and he’s a Retired U.S. Marine Major. The red flag in the article is this section: Godin, who retired from the Marines in 1994 after | Read More »
I received a phone call identifying itself as coming from Rasmussen conducting an automated poll that focused on the California Senate race. First time I’ve received such a call from Rasmussen. (I thank RedState for informing me of their reputation or I might not have participated.) After general job performance questions on Obama and on Arnold (one each), the poll had three head-to-head votes between | Read More »
Fox News reports this evening that the Senate broke a three-month Republican hold over the nominee for the Labor Department solicitor: The Senate has voted to move forward with the nomination of New York’s state labor commissioner for the No. 3 post at the Labor Department despite GOP complaints about her qualifications. The 60-32 vote on Monday allows lawmakers to begin debate on the confirmation | Read More »
Then the angel said…”Fear not: for behod I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” – Luke 2:10-11 On this Christmas eve, let us remember our soldiers who are living away from family and friends, many in far off places | Read More »
Should the Senate maintain their 60 votes through this week and pass the current health care bill, we will have seen an historic event presaging the very end of the American experiment in a Constitutional federal republic comparable to the repeal of the 17th Amendment and other events that opened a hole in the Constitution to allow the growth of an all-powerful central government. Here | Read More »
According to a Fox News story today, the EPA is set as soon as tomorrow to “officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy”. And since every living being is an emission source for CO2, coming soon, mandatory CO2 scubbers for every American man, women, and newborn? Or perhaps breathing taxes – and meters so | Read More »
Update: Final tally – 111 for, 14 against, 3 did not vote (an 8:1 margin) This link also has some excerpts from the debate and La Gringa’s tribute. LaGringa needs to be commended for regularly posting from inside Honduras on what has been going on there, which has been especially helpful since our media have either parroted the leftists or supressed stories. The above link | Read More »
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