It’s a very short post, but here’s the news: The Obama Administration, I think, is raising the Big Shiny Object of Iraqi failure just as Egypt is about to fall into the abyss: Judging from the articles at the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, the pretext creation of “Iraq as Failure” has been ramped up to an extremely high volume. | Read More »
[Update: It didn't occur to me at first, but with a second read of Button's article, it struck me that this op-ed at the NYT is a pretty good antithesis narrative direct rip off of the article about Sandra Froman (former President of the NRA) from 2006, published in the Stanford University alumni magazine: "Top Gun." The antiparallels are striking. It's almost like Button decided | Read More »
As of tonight, I’ve come to the conclusion that talking about any serious subject on Redstate is almost completely useless. The blog should completely close down all the comments and user diaries, and should disallow comments entirely except if allowed by the person who creates the post. It should be a straight-up right-wing opinion journal with no apologies. No more BS, very much like the | Read More »
[This was a post in reply to a thread farther down. I decided to delete that post with an apology and repost my entire response as a new diary entry. I hope this doesn't break "the rules".] We’re not a Republic of Needs and thank God we’re not. The technocracy is doing its best at every turn to decide what people need and how much | Read More »
As promised, this is what I’ve already written. [As a preface, I would also like to say to Charles Schumer: yes it is true that I criticize the National Rifle Association and its leaders, particularly when I think they’ve made statements or comported themselves in a way that I found embarrassing. That doesn’t mean I don’t support them otherwise, though. We’re often toughest on the | Read More »
Well, there’s one thing about apocalyptic predictons: they often become apocalyptic realities. After watching the news conference today, I can conclusively say that the National Rifle Association needs new leaders – from top to bottom – not because of what they said, but because of how they said it, which was one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever witnessed. I thought about cueing up | Read More »
Walking back the statement that information establishing a motive in the Newtown massacre had been found is continuing at warp speed today. According to the Washington Post this morning, there might not be an official statement of Adam Lanza’s motive until after President Obama takes action on gun control regulations – if such a statement is ever forthcoming. Here’s the article. “In the initial hours | Read More »
I’d just like to say something quickly here tonight about the controversy about the proposals for some school teachers and administrators to be allowed to arm themselves and carry a weapon, and have one (or more) immediately available in an emergency situation: It’s a good idea, and it’s an idea we should have advanced a long time ago. In addition to other ideas we’re all | Read More »
There’s some really important information that was supposed to have existed in the immediate aftermath of the shooting in Newtown that has vanished from everyone’s visibility: the motive of the criminal established by evidence found at the scene or at his home: If people recall, in the first 24-48 hours after the massacre, the State Police in Connecticut were quoted by the media as saying | Read More »
Hi folks, I just wanted to say this evening that with all the hubbub about how so-called Republicans are splitting off from the group they were never much a part of anyway, I’d like to remind people: I support Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform, and you should too. Don’t let the WaPo’s “chip chip” become the “drip drip” in this post-election season. You | Read More »
Very briefly, Around 4:30 in the afternoon yesterday, just as Sandy was unleashing its final beachfront assault against New Jersey, I was eating a nice corned beef sandwich and a perfect dill pickle, watching the NOAA Water Vapor loop from Drudge over the Internet. Then about 10 seconds later we lost power. Bzzzzt. Blink. Bzzzzzzzzzzt….blin….blink……BRIGHT….bzzt. DARK. FLASHLIGHT BEAM! Where’s the Flashlight? Ok you know you | Read More »
In keeping with my occasional practice of posting “Songs of the Day” for memorable days and evenings, here are my selections for tonight’s debate. The songs themselves are more than compelling enough to make up for any lack of verbosity on my part. My reasons for choosing them are mine and mine alone, and rather than go into a dissertation about why I chose them, | Read More »
Paul Ryan is a very intelligent young man, and he’s an honest man, and he’s also someone who can think on his feet. When I think of my advice to him going into tomorrow night’s debate, I only have a few things to say. He’s probably heard a lot more from a lot of other people, so I’ll keep it simple: 1) You’re debating an | Read More »
Maybe it’s just gone unnoticed here in the past couple of days, but both Joe Biden and Charles Schumer now have big news splashes describing how they’re standing up for Traditional Values recently. The first one comes from the New York Times: Senator, Senator Make Me A Match: For Staff, Schumer is Cupid “Have kids; have a lot of kids,” Mr. Schumer, who has two | Read More »
I mean, I am SHOCKED. Today’s comments by the Vice President (spoken through his faux “black man” accent, through his gleaming teeth) have to be the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard or seen from someone so close to the Presidency in this country. It’s really kind of amazing. I never knew Joe Biden wanted to be an actor portraying a race-baiter, but there it | Read More »
Very short post. All day long Drudge has been doing something weird – it seems to me – with Scalia’s statements about regulations of firearms, which are just about the most obvious thing in the world. Maybe Matt Drudge doesn’t know it, but nothing Scalia said is any surprise at all. “Scalia Warns: Guns May Be Regulated.” No ***t. Wow, ain’t that a corker. Well, | Read More »
Since this is becoming a minor issue today with Romney speaking before the NRA convention and the Washington Post using *democrats* who are opposed to his record to attempt to describe Romney’s record here in MA, it’s important to re-post this link. Don’t believe the hype. Romney was a pro-2nd Amendment governor during his tenure here in MA. I have every reason to believe he | Read More »
Right here in this very post you will find the answer to all of the cultural questions you might have from the past 60 years. It’s all here, in a nutshell. Like anything else, it has been about the roles of the sexes in our society, and particularly the role of men, but also the role of women in relation to men: Matt Groening finally | Read More »
Sorry, everyone for the kerfuffle. I was pretty steamed at Neil the other night for summarily de[publishing] my post that (really, truthfully) broke the message that Marco Rubio had endorsed Romney. I understand why he de[published] it – it was too short, it wasn’t much of a post, and it violated the posting rules as such. At the same time I was upset because I | Read More »
This might come as no surprise to people here at Redstate, but I think it’s useful to highlight it anyway. E.J. Dionne’s column over at the Washington Post this morning manages to do the almost unimaginable — even for him: first state the law carefully, then offer an opinion masquerading as a definition that fundamentally debases and alters what it means, and then posit the twisted | Read More »
I’ve thought for a long time about it and if Redstate had a paywall and/or a subscription plan to be a part of the blog, I would pay for it. I’m thinking somewhere along the lines of $5.00 a year to read only front page articles, $10 a year to read front page and recommended entries as well as comment, and $25 a year to | Read More »
Very short post. On March 1st, I wrote a post , a little tongue-in-cheek, about Energy Secretary Chu’s dustup in his testimony before Congress regarding the Administration’s view of increasing gasoline prices. I wrote: “Why is anyone so surprised that this Administration’s Energy Secretary said what he said and then had to walk back his comments about the Administration wanting the price of gasoline to go | Read More »
Hello everyone. I mean this post as a little bit of a poll and also because I’m willing to take a personal risk if enough people think it’s important that I do so. I’d like to talk in a future post about my experiences owning guns in America, beginning with my early experiences shooting BB guns and pellet guns, my later experiences on a high | Read More »
As per my usual these days, I’d just like to ask a simple question: Why is anyone so surprised that this Administration’s Energy Secretary said what he said and then had to walk back his comments about the Administration wanting the price of gasoline to go high, stay high, and get higher? And higher, and higher and higher… And higher, until it is as high as | Read More »
Short post: Today, February 20, 2012 - in addition to being “President’s Day” - is the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s successful three-orbit mission aboard Friendship 7. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, and anyone with even a cursory appreciation of the history of America’s manned space program knows that it was an urgent and somewhat harrowing mission. There is no Google Doodle celebrating that | Read More »
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