Into Our Eighth Year: Welcome to RedState
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 25th at 01:32 AM |
I often get credit for being the founder of RedState. Actually, the credit belongs to Josh Trevino, Ben Domenech, and Mike Krempasky. Along the way they added me and put me in charge as each of them took different career paths. Thomas Crown still gets to pull rank and along the way we added Clayton out of necessity and kept him out of friendship. Now | Read More »
Sherrod Brown
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 24th at 01:31 PM |
“Does a guy who wears dog collars in pictures with Barney Frank really want to make a political issue of other men’s . . .” In Ohio
Chairman of the Associated Press . . . Lewinskies Obama . . . Or Something Like That
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 24th at 12:46 PM |
You were expecting objectivity? Here’s the Chairman of the Associated Press introducing Barack Obama to an Associated Press meeting: I get the desire to flatter the President of the United States, but really? He might as well have pulled out a blue dress and a cigar. By the way, it is funny to think of the groups that Barack Obama has not deigned to visit | Read More »
On Lance Armstrong
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 24th at 04:47 AM |
If you haven’t heard yet, Lance Armstrong has given up on fighting the US Anti-Doping Agency. He’s throwing in the towel. I don’t really have a dog in the fight. I’m never cared much for competitive cycling. But it really does seem horrendous and un-American to me that a quasi-government agency, mostly funded by the government, gets to pretend it is not a part of | Read More »
Not the Behavior of a Winning Campaign
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 24th at 04:46 AM |
The media keeps showing its rear end. Let me just make that clear. If you are a competent reporter, I’m not sure how you cannot be embarrassed by the majority of those in your profession right now covering politics. From Mark Halperin, to Jake Tapper, to Chuck Todd, more journalists are actually now admitting just how pliable the media is when it comes to Barack | Read More »
Morning Briefing for August 24, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 24th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing August 24, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. Tonight at 8pm, RedState is going dark. Behind the scenes, for the past several months, we’ve been engaged in a comprehensive redesign process. Tonight at 8, we’re going to start transferring data to the new site, which means we can’t take on new data. We’re going to | Read More »
This, This, A Thousand Times This
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 23rd at 06:06 PM |
Finally, someone has seized upon what I think is THE winning narrative in this election cycle. It used to be that if you worked hard enough you could be successful in America. But in Barack Obama’s America, you have to work hard and give to Barack Obama. It’s all about the team you are on, not the work you do. The website Crony Chronicles has | Read More »
Cayman Islands Based Gawker Media Attacks Mitt Romney for Cayman Island Assets
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 23rd at 05:51 PM |
This is actually pretty hilarious. Gawker, the site that has spent lots of time also ridiculing Sarah Palin and Trig Palin and pretty much writing every other offensive thing you can think of, is now attacking Mitt Romney for having assets based in the Cayman Islands. The Romney camp is gleefully pointing out that Gawker, you may not know, is based in the Cayman Islands. | Read More »
Morning Briefing for August 23, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 23rd at 06:21 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing August 23, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. My apologies for the untimely delivery of what amounts to your mid-morning briefing today. Believe it or not, I actually do get up at 4 o’clock and send it out each morning. But for the first time in several years, I was so exhausted after a whirlwind | Read More »
Just a Reminder: Nikki Haley Remains Awesome
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 22nd at 04:46 AM |
The Myrtle Beach newspaper brings word to conservatives nationwide that Nikki Haley remains awesome. The Governor, who had a series of vetoes overridden by the state legislature because she dared to cut spending, has also wielded her veto pen and seen the legislature back down recently. But, what’s so awesome, is the tears shed by liberals. Get this — she, in the words of the | Read More »
Morning Briefing for August 22, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 22nd at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing August 22, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Just a Reminder: Nikki Haley Remains Awesome 2. Obama assists Bain takeover at OMB and tries to hide it 3. DC Circuit Tosses Out EPA’s Pollution Rule 4. Radical Islam Joins the DNC
Will Congressman Akin Put His World View Ahead of His Pride?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 21st at 04:46 AM |
The hyperbole from the left over Todd Akin has been disgusting. The man truly believes that children who are conceived out of rape should not be killed. The Bible teaches us that God raised us up from the dust of the earth and stitched us together in our mothers’ wombs. When you believe that, as Congressman Akin does, then it is asking much to tear | Read More »
Morning Briefing for August 21, 2012
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 21st at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing August 21, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Will Congressman Akin Put His World View Ahead of His Pride? 2. Rape, Abortion, and the Moral High Ground 3. As Stupid As It Gets: Longshoremen’s Union Protests U.S. Marines 4. Women Pilots in Afghanistan Up In The Air 5. The Registration Gap
Break Up The Banks
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 20th at 10:11 AM |
I hope the Romney campaign seriously takes on this idea. We have created a financial situation in this country, with Dodd-Frank and other policies, that have stacked the banks against the American people. They have become so massive that they can do pretty much what they want because they can hire all the lobbyists they need to get what they want from Washington and if | Read More »
Be Ashamed
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 20th at 09:27 AM |
When John Edwards was doing what he was doing with Rielle Hunter, much of the conservative movement was up in arms that the man had an affair on his cancer stricken wife, had a baby with the adulteress, and then tried to cover it up. The National Enquirer, of all places, was first on the story and it took the more traditional media forever to | Read More »