What do you think Americans would say if they learned that while Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were fighting for their lives atop the US Consulate in Benghazi, that their President was on the phone with campaign donors, or prepping for his Las Vegas fundraiser the next day. Throughout all the hearings and testimony thus far, the one fact we do know is this, not | Read More »
Dana Milbank’s column in today’s Washington Post discusses the muted response of the pols to the Boston Marathon bombing, and how the conversation on both the House and Senate floors now moves on and back to the usual normalcy and current hot topics of the day, gun control and immigration reform. On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb detonated at the World Trade Center in New | Read More »
In the midst of gun control legislation offered by various Senators, from an assault weapons ban and magazine limits, to the now pre-eminent gun control bill in the Senate, Manchin-Toomey, I thought I would share with you gun control, Chicago-style, a.k.a. bring a bat to the fight. The City of Chicago has some of the toughest, strictest gun laws in the country. In 2010, the | Read More »
Eighteen spineless wonders in the Senate voted for cloture, ending debate over Hagel’s nomination. Instead of a 60 vote requirement to end a filibuster, the result was the need for only a simple majority of the Senate voting for successful confirmation as Secretary of Defense. A big thank you from the voters goes to that claque of erudite Senators led by none other than John “Keating | Read More »
In a time when we Americans have so few heroes to look up to and role models to emulate, we learned today that Chris Kyle, ex-Navy SEAL, who served four tours in Iraq and holds the military record for most sniper kills was fatally shot at a Texas gun range. He and another man, Chad Littlefield, were killed by an ex-Marine reportedly suffering from PTSD. | Read More »
After the Benghazi debacle, obviously no Regional Security Officers (RSOs) at the State Dept were ever boy scouts, otherwise, they would have practiced the famous motto, “be prepared.” From Hurriyet Daily News via Commentary magazine comes the report that the Embassy’s security cameras weren’t working because of a power outage in the neighborhood. What! Security cameras were not recording at the moment of the | Read More »
I’m not from Texas, I don’t live in Texas, and perhaps there may be some background/public service information that I’m not aware of that could alter my opinion. However, listening to Sen. Cruz’s questioning of Chuck Hagel today before the Senate Armed Services Committee, coupled with his recent letter to Rahmbo, in my opinion sets him up for a future White House run. Bravo, sir! | Read More »
What would cause a woman, who has lived all but three years of her life in peaceful and safe environments, to join the NRA, complete their basic pistol course, and beginning shopping semi-automatic handguns? Without even elaborating on the subject of Second Amendment rights, the increasing government incursion into our daily lives, and the government assuming a tyrannical posture not witnessed before in this author’s | Read More »
Angry, fighting words from Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, this morning in response to a question from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) when he questioned her about the Administration’s often repeated response blaming the Benghazi attack on a YouTube video. Madame Secretary then follows her arrogant-sounding comment with, to paraphrase, it’s less important to find out why these militants did this, than to find them and | Read More »
I had a phone call last night, you know, one of those “donation” calls. I gave the caller a flat-out “no.” ”My paycheck decreased 5% on January 1,” I said, “and I have four mouths to feed here at home. I have to make cuts and your charity is one of them. Less money, fewer donations.” It’s rather depressing. Unemployment is teetering below 8%, but | Read More »
“What are YOU prepared to do?” These were the last words of the character John Malone to Elliott Ness in “The Untouchables,” when it appeared that Al Capone had outwitted, outsmarted the system and would get away with not only tax evasion but murder. Those words appear to be applicable for what Americans are up against with the ongoing, knee-jerk reaction of the Progressives/Democrats, | Read More »
If you’ve read the Sunday New York Times article, or watched the Sunday morning talk shows, specifically “Meet the Press”, you couldn’t escape the advent of the political speculation about 2016 and will Hillary run or won’t she? Newt Gingrich commented: She’s very formidable as a person and is a very confident person. She is married to the most popular Democrat in the country. They | Read More »
The ongoing problem with the Obama Administration is its choice of foot soldiers and Kool-Aid drinking ideologues for key positions, rather than its selection of people who question, have differing views and can raise the level of debate when it comes to policy issues and events affecting the lives of Americans. Susan Rice met with Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and Kelly Ayotte today to | Read More »
While there may be many RedState readers who don’t normally read Politico.com, I sure do. President Obama’s national campaign manager, Jim Messina, has his 10 takeaways from this past political campaign. It’s worth reading and digesting, especially Point #2, “hire smart people,” where Messina relates the advice that Google co-founder, Eric Schmidt, gave him, which led to the hugely successful data-driven campaign micro-targeting voters, who | Read More »
Also known as with friends like us, who needs enemies. When the US can’t verbally support one of its major allies…. But why should we wonder, when we have a President on the world stage who can’t even correctly pronounce the names of world leaders, one of whom, deserves that respect perhaps moreso than others, Burmese opposition leader, and world human rights activist, Aung San | Read More »
Four Americans dead. An ongoing “investigation.” The President comments on softball questions in his presser yesterday, with the media failing to follow up with pointed questions. Their lack of response is due to stupidity or hero worship, (remember that giggling reporter, “I’ve never seen you lose”) rather than “inquiring minds want to know.” The President used Sir Galahad bravado coming to the defense of Amb. Susan | Read More »
Back in April, I posted an article on my personal website addressing the potential of the Obama juggernaut, Operation Narwhal to win the election. This operation was the ground game that defeated Romney’s Project ORCA and turned out the Democratic vote. I also wrote another post back in 2011 about how Obama could be re-elected, centering on five strategies: 1) the Chicago machine; 2) class and economic | Read More »
Unlike other bloggers and pundits, I needed a full day to digest the news of this, I admit, deeply disappointing defeat. My first reaction, was thinking about the people I know who voted for Obama and saying to them, “do you honestly know and understand what you’ve done?” To borrow a phrase from Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, “the chickens are comin’ home to roost.” | Read More »
Short and sweet, Governor Romney, I love my country, but I’m voting for you because of: Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods who died because they loved their country, and their pleas for security and later help during the fire fight went unheeded by the incompetence and politics played by the Administration. REVENGE The lies told by the Administration to the American public | Read More »
President Obama is like fine wine, he gets better with age. The longer he is in office and on the campaign trail, using Air Force One (are we taxpayers getting reimbursed from his campaign?), the more the real unvarnished Obama comes to the forefront. Yesterday, we learned through released White House emails, that key figures within the Administration, and most likely the President knew, that | Read More »
Earlier today, President Obama was asked by a pool reporter as to whether Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was responsible for the security failures in Libya. President Obama, after jocularly responding to how he felt about the upcoming debate and that he was happy Michelle voted early, remained silent. So what’s up? What’s going on here? Reports abound that the women’s vote is leaving Obama | Read More »
No words needed ….. the underlying story hasn’t been fully written yet. And, by the way, we haven’t defined which man.
All the way from Peru, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been ‘presidentesque” in her statement that she takes responsibility. Per CNN’s account: “I take responsibility,” Clinton said during a visit to Peru. “I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. The president and the vice president wouldn’t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security | Read More »
The Twitterverse, blogosphere, and pundits have been in overdrive since last Thursday night’s VP debate. For me, the tweet of David Burge @iowahawkblog summed it up, both before the debate and after: Drinking game: every time you realize Joe Biden is one heartbeat away from the presidency, drink. — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 11, 2012 Foreign policy, Mr. Biden’s raison d’être for the Obama administration | Read More »
In the ongoing it’s not our fault blame game, at Thursday night’s debate, the Vice President trotted out the next meme for the Libyan debacle, “we did not know they needed more security.” At Friday’s White House press briefing, Jay Carney doubled down with a definition of “we”: ”The vice president was speaking about himself, the president and the White House. He was not referring | Read More »
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