Alabama’s bill to repeal Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCS) may be in trouble due to outside pressure on the Senate to do nothing until after the House acts. This is dangerous since we have committed support in the Senate but not in the House. Please contact your reps today and urge them to stay strong in their commitment to repeal. If you’re not familiar | Read More »
I watched this video over the weekend after discovering it on the Alabama GOP’s website. It is a reminder of the bleak future our children and grandchildren are facing if the United States of America continues on the path of liberalism. Watching it, the chills down my spine gave way to tears in my eyes as the young teens end the video with this: “God | Read More »
Back in May when it became apparent that our GOP nominee for President was going to be Governor Mitt Romney, I wrote this diary What Are You Doing the Summer of 2012? (I’ll be trying to save the country.) explaining how I had come around to support Mitt and why. Not much has changed for me since then except my activism has increased, and I’m | Read More »
This is going to be a down and dirty, quick to the point post. Before I get to the main point, however, let me just say that I am not going to get into the details of how funding works in Alabama. We have the General Fund, the Rainy Day Trust Fund, the Forever Wild Trust Fund, and more. Suffice it to say it’s complicated | Read More »
As I reflect on our nation’s birthday and think about our plans for tomorrow – grill a burger, apple pie & ice cream* for dessert, Bible Study, fireworks – memories of past Independence Days bring to mind parades, flags, fireworks, and music. Always the music. I grew up during a time when most everybody attended a local birthday party for the good old U.S.A. As | Read More »
Just a little over six months ago, on December 7, 2011, my dad passed away after a 7 by-pass open heart surgery. He was 83 years young, as they say. We knew he had some heart issues, having had a couple of stints put in over the years, but considering that the week before his surgery he went hunting, spent an afternoon helping his granddaughter | Read More »
This past Friday, at high noon in 90 degree weather, somewhere between 300 and 500 folks (depending on if you ask the reporters or the event planners) gathered at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham to serve notice to our government that we are bound and determined to hold on to our religious freedom. I estimated the crowd to be around 400 before reading any | Read More »
On May 28, 2012, commencing at 12:30 p.m., you are cordially invited to the re-dedication of The Rainbow Viaduct to honor a span of heroes from the 167th Alabama Infantry who have served this country since 1917. The Rainbow Viaduct is located at 21st Street South in Birmingham, Alabama. Why the 167th you might ask? Because, as the invitation states, on July 26, 1918, at | Read More »
Let me start by saying that this diary is directed, for the most part, toward those who have already voted in their primaries. For those of you who haven’t, I urge you to vote your conscience, but keep reading anyway. Once you’ve voted, come back and read this again. Further, I’m writing under the assumption that Governor Mitt Romney will become the GOP nominee, although | Read More »
There’s been a lot of discussion during this primary season about the candidates and their speeches, records, electability, baggage, and so on. Upon reading a comment today from a Romney shill (who was ceremonially banned for the third time) that Newt is nothing more than a “talking head,” I recalled the Speaker’s comments in a speech he gave the night before the Alabama primary last | Read More »
Thanks again to my understanding husband who I stood up for dinner via text so I could spend the evening with Newt, Rick and close to 2,000 conservatives, tea partiers and GOPer’s, plus a handful of SCUM (so-called unbiased media – H/T funwithknives). One of the perks of working in downtown Birmingham is that I didn’t have to fight for a parking spot to attend | Read More »
Not long after the primary season started to get interesting, I wrote a diary about my political relationship with Newt called Second Dates. At the time, I wasn’t sure if there was enough chemistry between us to go on a second date, i.e., for me to actually consider voting for Newt again*. He had, after all, flirted with Nancy, so I had a difficult time | Read More »
In the “Jobs” diary here, NightTwister posted a comment about Newt Gingrich’s website which offers “solutions” rather than “issues” as is done at the sites for other candidates. A while back in one of Erick’s Horserace diaries, I described each candidate in terms of a courtship. My take on Newt was, Gingrich is the old boyfriend you’re still fond of, but there’s just no chemistry | Read More »
Back in April, schools in the small town of Hackleburg, Alabama (population about 1,400), as well as those in neighboring counties, were destroyed by massive, deadly tornadoes. While the schools are being rebuilt, students are in portable classrooms, leaving county officials and parents worried about their safety if, and most likely when, another tornado hits. Not to worry, FEMA to the rescue. As John Roberts | Read More »
Where to start as I wrap up my account of my “first” redstate gathering? Right where I left off in Day Two am. As I stood in line with the new friends, all of us fanning ourselves in the heat (Charleston in August! Really?), I could feel the excitement in the air, and it was easy to get caught up in it all. Press and | Read More »
Promoted by Jeff. Okay, I have to admit I’ve been a little full of myself today what with the promotion of my first redstate diary, A Weekend of Firsts, Day One, to the front page. A very unexpected first, but very much appreciated (thank you, Jeff and to everyone else for all the kind comments). But I’ve come back down to earth, and we’re off | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Jeff. It’s people and experiences like this that make RedState what it is. First, I’m not a writer by nature, and if I inherited any creative genes, I can’t find them (I even have trouble drawing a stick man). Also, this is my first time using word press and writing a diary off the top of my head, so it | Read More »
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