On Monday, May 20th, the US Senate is set to take up consideration of the 2013 Farm Bill- an action taken every five years which exemplifies the worst of congressional pork and hypocrisy. This is the area where conservative legislators suspend their belief in free markets, their opposition to phony capitalism, their attacks on the Obama “green energy” initiative, and their steadfast opposition to government | Read More »
Back in 2007 when a somewhat obscure Senator from Illinois was making noise about running for President, this writer decided to look into this guy. Most of the good information I found was from a website I’ll be damned if I can locate again- WTF Obama.com or something like that. Regardless, a few things emerged from this research. The first was that the birther “controversy” | Read More »
As part of Obama’s vision to remake America, he proposed in his State of the Union address, and in his budget, universal Pre-K education for all American school children age 3-4. Today, perhaps the closest thing we have in that area is a relic from Johnson’s War on Poverty- the Head Start program. This program is not necessarily “universal,” but is targeted to children in | Read More »
I awoke from my slumber or ignorance or avoidance of MSNBC a little while ago and started watching “The Cycle.” If any reader here wants a good laugh, then I wholeheartedly suggest you watch this mindless liberal drivel that is supposed to pass for political discourse. There are four panelists, one of whom is a woman named Krystal Ball. According to her biography, she is | Read More »
Thus far, Obama has remade his cabinet in his second term with some push back from Republicans in certain areas. For example, there were questions about Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Defense Secretary. John Kerry, being a sitting Senator, more or less got a free ride although his rhetoric and votes at times were to the left of his predecessor, Hillary Clinton. There are other | Read More »
This is a rare article indeed since there is really not too much to like about Obama’s presidency thus far. Given the class warfare, the now-boring playing of the race card, the constant campaigning and not to mention his lack of leadership skills, Obama is a walking poster boy for failed socialist policies domestically and naivete at best in international relations. His biggest legacy will | Read More »
As a candidate for the presidency in 2008, Obama’s campaign website took particular aim at the alleged secrecy of the Bush Administration regarding a concept known as the state secrets privilege. That website said: “The Bush administration has ignored public disclosure rules and has invoked a legal tool known as the state secrets privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out | Read More »
In the great abortion debate today, most eyes are on Philadelphia and the media-neglected horror show of the Gosnell trial. Special kudos should go out to Krysten Powers for bringing this media neglect/ignorance to light. Put simply, the events at the West Philadelphia Women’s Clinic run by Gosnell is literally a horror show complete with severed limbs kept in jars and an examination room that | Read More »
Leaving aside the fact that from a political standpoint many of the proposals offered by Team Obama/Biden will likely fail in the Senate, there are serious constitutional and practical issues involved. In short, it is a perfect storm against draconian gun control laws. The only thing the gun control lobby has going for them is emotion and polls. Yet like in so many other areas, | Read More »
In part 1, I discussed some of the constitutional issues involved with gun control legislation. In both the Heller and McDonald cases, Justices Scalia and Alito respectively got it right when they answered the underlying fundamental question about the Second Amendment- whether it is an individual or a collective right. As was discussed, it is clearly an individual right with a collective purpose. The collective | Read More »
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary for a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” These 14 simple words in the Bill of Rights have not been a controversy for the better part of our history. It is perhaps only over the last four decades that this constitutional right has become controversial and the subject of | Read More »
There is a tremendous effort these days on college campuses across the Nation to stifle free speech. More specifically, it is an attempt to stifle speech that college and university administrations has deemed to be offensive or unworthy of dialogue in an educational setting. Fortunately, states like Virginia and most recently Utah are fighting back against these self-appointed guardians of appropriate speech on campus. I | Read More »
One of the things that most baffles me about liberals is how they grasp onto some theory and notion and then hold onto it despite information to the contrary. Instead, their usual reaction is to denigrate the carrier of that opposing proof or theory and explain them away. This happens in just about every conceivable liberal thought. Despite mounting evidence that the United States is | Read More »
The Supreme Court will hear a very interesting case later this month that will be of interest to anyone concerned with how tax dollars are spent, free speech and international relations. That hopefully should encompass a good majority of the many folks here at Redstate if not many concerned Americans. But first, a little background. In 2003, Congress passed what is called the Leadership Act | Read More »
The United States Supreme Court will pretty much wrap up oral arguments this month for the current term. As of this writing they have yet to decide six cases heard in the October through December sessions. April’s cases are not particularly earth shattering, yet the Court will still be presented with some interesting questions. The most interesting of the mix is actually a patent case. | Read More »
Mathematical models are generally wrought with problems depending on the information fed into those models. For example, depending on the data entered, we can derive evidence for such now disputed notions as global warming caused by man, a $1 trillion stimulus being a “success,” a Mitt Romney victory in 2012, etc. New York Times writer Nate Silver recently used a statistical model to “predict” whether | Read More »
In the first part, I suggested that the GOP transform into and set forth the message that they are the party of individual opportunity and responsibility. Within those contexts, there can be room for disagreement. This part deals with the unfortunate herd mentality that defines politics today. Too often when a party fails, they look at which group or other where the message or the | Read More »
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Hollingsworth, et. al., v Perry- the Proposition 8 gay marriage case. As the press has reported, the scene outside the Court was one of a circus with plenty of rainbows and plenty of cross-dressing gay people and their supporters. Leaving aside the visuals, the tone of the argument was one of concern that the | Read More »
The recently released RNC report of what went wrong in 2012 has been met with diverse criticisms and analysis almost in keeping with the number of times the word “diversity” is mentioned or intimated in the actual report. This is the underlying theme of the report- that the Republican Party is viewed as a group of stodgy old white men, dominated by voices from a | Read More »
The other governor’s race this year, besides the one in New Jersey, will be in Virginia. Before discussing that race, just to follow up on some comments regarding the New Jersey race: As someone mentioned, if anyone thinks Christie’s “embrace of Obama” in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy cost Romney the election, they are mistaken. In my humble opinion, that videotape of the fundraiser did | Read More »
There are two gubernatorial races this year and both involve states currently represented in those state’s highest office by Republicans. One is term-limited- Bob McDonnell in Virginia- and one is not- Chris Christie in New Jersey. This article will concentrate on New Jersey. To assert that current GOP Governor Chris Christie has a high profile nationally and within the party is an understatement. Some may | Read More »
President Obama recently announced a plan to develop an Alternative Energy Research trust fund from government royalties received from the oil and gas industry for drilling on public lands and offshore. It would amount to about $200 million a year. In effect, this is a tax on the fossil fuel industry which will be passed on to consumers. It is nothing more than a carbon | Read More »
The city of Detroit appears to be on the verge of being taken over financially by the state of Michigan. As expected, liberals and labor unions are crying the usual fouls and predicting the usual calamities that will befall what was once the nation’s fourth largest city. One article I recently read insinuated that there was a racial motive behind the move. Specifically, should Detroit | Read More »
Coming in somewhat under the radar this term of the Supreme Court is a case out of Arizona involving election law. The case is Arizona vs. Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. and oral argument is set for March 18th. At issue is a state law known as Proposition 200 which requires that registered voters be required to show proof that they are citizens of the | Read More »
The Supreme Court will hear two gay marriage cases later this month. This diary entry will focus on one- Hollingsworth vs. Perry- the Proposition 8 case out of California. The ballot initiative was prompted by a California supreme court decision which determined that state’s ban on same sex marriage violated the state constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. It should be noted that at that point | Read More »
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