By: kipling (Diary)  |  May 15th at 01:23 PM  | 

Late next week, May 22-24, the Boy Scouts of American will hold their National Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas.  The main item on the agenda is the new Membership Standards Resolution that will overturn the current BSA policy against homosexual members and allow youths who identify as homosexual to become members.  The ban on adult homosexuals will remain in place for now. One of the | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 26th at 07:30 PM  | 

Earlier today President Obama delivered some prepared remarks to the Planned Parenthood Conference meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.  In just under 15 minutes he extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood, declared it essential to the health of women across America, and decried its critics as those who wanted to return the status of women’s health back to the 1950s.  In | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 24th at 12:19 PM  | 

When the Boy Scouts of America announced earlier this year that it would once again review its ban on homosexuals, the move came as a surprise to many.  The issue seemed settled just last summer when, after an exhaustive two year review, the organization once again reaffirmed its traditional policy against homosexual members and adult leaders.  At the time the National Executive Committee of the Boy | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 20th at 01:22 AM  | 

Update:  Ken Klukowski is reporting at Breitbart.com that the proposed resolution is an attempt by a faction within the leadership of Boy Scouts of America to scuttle the whole organization and open it up to homosexuals of all ages.  According to his legal analysis, the wording of the resolution is so bad that it will not stand a legal challenge and will actually forfeit the | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  March 15th at 11:35 AM  | 

Perhaps the biggest headline this morning was Senator Rob Portman’s reversal of his position on homosexual marriage. In an editorial in The Columbus Dispatch – “Gay couples also deserve chance to get married” – the senator set forth his new found conviction. I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 28th at 12:14 PM  | 

Last week the Vice President and the Obama administration decided to go back in time to politicize the Virginia Tech massacre.  Their goal was not to provide an honest portrayal of the events nor to find real solutions to the problem based upon careful analysis.  They simply hoped to  advance their gun confiscation agenda by standing on the graves of dead college students.  Ironically, an | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 21st at 06:56 PM  | 

I could not stand to listen to the speech but I did read the transcript.  Here are some of my thoughts and questions as we move “Forward” into our decline as a nation.  Each section begins with a quote from the speech followed by my commentary. THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:01 AM  | 

In 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in a landslide against Alfred Landon of Kansas.  The landslide carried over to Congress where Democrats gained a supermajority that dominated the House of Representatives (328 to 107) and the Senate (77 to 19).  The President and the Democratic Party seemed unstoppable.  And then, FDR made a strategic error that brought it all crashing down. In his desire | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 14th at 10:32 PM  | 

At the dawn of the 21st century, it has become abundantly clear that Social Conservatism must adapt to a completely new political and social environment.  The social conservative movement, as bequeathed to us from the 1980s, is no longer adequate to the task or the culture.  Changes need to occur in both the message and our method of engagement. Let me begin by saying that | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:24 PM  | 

Franklin Roosevelt forged the modern Democratic Party in the midst of the Great Depression.  Long before Rahm Emanuel spoke of “never letting a crisis go to waste,”  FDR used the economic crisis of the 1930s to bludgeon the Republican Party and unite a governing coalition that made the Democratic Party the dominant political party from 1930 to the present.*  In the process, FDR demonstrated that | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  November 30th at 01:05 PM  | 

The 2012 election made it abundantly clear that the Republican Party must reject fiscal conservatism if they want to win any more national elections.  Small government fiscal conservatism is simply an archaic notion that a majority of the population now rejects.  If the future is demographics – as many here and in the MSM claim – then the demographics we need to win are turned | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  November 8th at 03:24 AM  | 

Let me begin by saying that I was as devastated by election night as most of you were.  So this post is not an attempt to sugarcoat what happened.  My goal is to put the election in a historical context and point our way ahead. The 2012 election was simply a repeat of the 1936 election.  In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  October 25th at 12:34 AM  | 

Republican Senatorial Candidate Richard Mourdock made national news in a debate on October 23, 2012.  In response to an abortion question asked of all the candidates, Mourdock made the following statement: “I too certainly stand for life.  I know there are some who disagree and I respect their point of view but I believe that life begins at conception.  The only exception I have for, | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  August 7th at 01:41 AM  | 

In the midst of the Chick-fil-A controversy last week, Mitt Romney voted “Present.” In Las Vegas on Friday, a reporter asked Romney about the Chick-fil-A controversy and about Michele Bachmann’s call for an investigation into the influence exercised by the Muslim Brotherhood within the federal government.  Romney effectively shut down that line of questioning by saying, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.” | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  August 4th at 11:30 AM  | 

One of Mitt Romney favorite topics on the stump is the role of culture in determining economic prosperity.  Often, in the course of his remarks, he will refer to The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes.  According to Romney, Landes argues that “if you could learn anything from the economic history of the world | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  July 30th at 10:43 PM  | 

On August 1, 2012, Obamacare will mandate that employers – regardless of their religious beliefs – pay for abortions, contraception, and sterilization in their health insurance coverage.  While churches are exempted, the Department of Health and Human Services has so narrowly defined the term “church” that religious institutions beyond the traditional house of worship must comply with the mandate.  In other words, HHS  provides no | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  June 14th at 03:39 AM  | 

As The New York Times and Big Government reported earlier, the leaders of several evangelical groups have recently called for bipartisan immigration reform.  The call for reform is part of a larger effort known as the Evangelical Immigration Table, which has issued the “Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform.”   The heart of the statement reads as follows: Our national immigration laws have created a moral, | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  June 7th at 01:55 AM  | 

The relationship between law and morality has become increasingly relevant as social liberals advance issues like homosexual marriage and abortion rights.  Since at least Roe v. Wade, social liberalism has also revealed a division within the Republican Party.  The relationship has provoked heated discussion here at RedState.  The most recent being a discussion over homosexual marriage about a month ago – Gay Marriage:  Left vs. | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 02:29 PM  | 

According to various sources, the Obama administration and its allies in the MSM pressured Mitt Romney into publicly repudiating a potential ad campaign by an independent Super PAC that would have tied Obama to Jeremiah Wright.  Their argument was that religion should be off the table. The decision by Governor Romney was wrong. It is perfectly valid to examine and question the religious beliefs of | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 30th at 03:20 PM  | 

Dan Savage is a gay activist and founder of the “It Gets Better” Project.  He has extensive ties with the Obama Administration and is a frequent visitor to the White House.  Recently at a high school journalism conference, Savage, after making reference to just having sex with his male partner,  launched a profanity laced attack upon the Bible and Christianity.  He mentioned that regarding homosexuality, | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  April 10th at 11:36 PM  | 

Although I am not a member of the Santorum camp, I appreciate the tenacity he brought to the Republican primary.  As Dan McLaughlin mentioned earlier, Santorum trailed the GOP pack for most of the primary season.  When he won in Iowa, must of us wrote him off.  After all, he had no money and no national campaign staff.  Yet, despite the odds, Santorum continued the | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  March 30th at 01:55 PM  | 

In 2011 Vanderbilt University adopted a new nondiscrimination policy that prohibits a student organization from requiring its members and even its leadership to adhere to a statement of faith.  Vanderbilt adopted the new policy after Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity, removed one of its leaders because he disagreed with the fraternity’s official stand on homosexuality.  Following a public meeting in January 2012, Vanderbilt gave | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  March 15th at 03:27 PM  | 

Totalitarian:  a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute control over all aspects of life. The left under President Obama is quickly moving to create a totalitarian state that controls all aspects of our lives through Congressional legislation, Executive fiat, Judicial rulings, and Bureaucratic regulations.  Since his efforts bear some striking similarities to totalitarian regimes from the past, I thought it might | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  March 13th at 06:25 PM  | 

Almost a month ago, Mr. Obama launched his “contraception” campaign in a blatant attempt to win over women voters and to shift the debate away from economic issues.  Since that time, the left – and even some conservatives – have distorted the issue.  Some fiscal conservatives have missed the relevance of the issue completely. The “contraception issue” is not about birth control or even social conservatism. | Read More »

By: kipling (Diary)  |  February 9th at 12:00 PM  | 

From the diaries by Leon… Let me begin with two brief qualifiers.  First, I believe in fiscal conservatism.  I am a 100% fiscally conservative believer in small government.  I also happen to be 100% in favor of social conservatism and a strong national defense.  So, in short, I am a Reagan conservative.  The following diary is not a critique of fiscal conservatism but rather those | Read More »