Note: We have the best labor union coverage in America right here at RedState, with LaborUnionReport and his crew, and this business in Wisconsin is 95% bullet-point labor issues. I’ll leave that to our experts. But considering the worldwide surfacing of “American-style, street-based labor issues” in downtown Tunis, Cairo, Amman, Manama, hell, even Tripoli, the last three weeks…and then all of a sudden, in Madison, | Read More »
If you haven’t noticed, now that Hosni Mubarak has officially stepped down, the Egyptian Revolution has actually taken on an aspect of being popular. The fellahin, the Egypt Street, have joined rent-a-mobs and left wing students to celebrate Mubarak’s departure. And the military has stepped in (Thank God), and called for a new constitution and elections in six months. This popular exultation will soon fade | Read More »
This is actually about Egypt and the illusion, still held by the American media (including FoxNews) that the protests, riots and resulting stand-off in Egypt is about more freedom for the people of Egypt and not less freedom…while we all know the outcome will be the opposite should the Muslim Brotherhood be brought into a governing coalition with Mubarak’s successor. But its genesis actually begins | Read More »
Day 8. History may well report that there was actually a democratic sentiment somewhere in the midst of the mass protests that began a week ago in Cairo, but I doubt it. And for sure, the world media never looked for it. As LaborUnionReport has been establishing here at RS (this piece should be reread in light of unfolding events, and please note the corporate | Read More »
I think the “gambit” in Egypt is becoming more apparent. Not only is Israel being pincered, but so is Saudi Arabia. And yes, most of us need a score card. And we need a reminder about the sometimes hard-to-see, but very important distinctions between an authoritarian thug like Mubarak and the proto-communist facilitator like Mohammed ed Baradei. First came a heads-up by Gamecock last Sunday | Read More »
Watch this YouTube presentation of Eric Cantor’s contretemps with NBC’s David Gregory last Sunday. It’s a good teaching lesson for the GOP Freshmen Class. It’s about the resurfacing of the Barack Obama-Hawaii birth certificate issue when the mayor of Honolulu said he had seen it, but suddenly can’t find it. Limbaugh made light of it on Friday, which apparently piqued Gregory’s “fears”. I doubt Cantor | Read More »
The soul of conservatism is defined by sweat equity. There’s a longer and shorter answer to why this is so, but since my purpose here is to convince deep-pocket conservatives that they are misdirecting much of their political giving I’ll avoid the longer answer, which we can visit at another time. Right now our side is losing important ground against the Left because of those | Read More »
You’ll note the title doesn’t say “A Steadfast Resistance to…”, or “A Courageous Stiff Upper Lip Against…”. Nope, in a winner-take-all, life-and-death struggle for personal liberty, individual human dignity and America, i can find absolutely no profit in us simply holding our ground…especially now that we have lost almost half of it, and the Left still dead set on taking away the rest at every | Read More »
It’s been a rough week. First, assassinations spawned by left-wing “hate teach” (there, I said it again), followed by a hate campaign against the innocent for yelling “ouch” when they were blamed. Then both the Texas Speaker and the RNC chairman’s elections have proven that the messaging here at RedState isn’t always as powerful as we’d like to think it is. Were the Joe Strauss | Read More »
Short answer, No. But they are afraid…and have been for years. Just not from the Right. You may find it interesting that Democrat legislators, even progressives, fear the radical Left even more than Republicans do. And most Republicans are afraid of their own shadows. So put behind you any speculation that Congress suddenly got a wake-up call in Tucson last week and now really wants | Read More »
The Republican National Committee will hold its annual election on January 15. This is an analysis primarily designed for the voting delegates…about things to come. In the late 1970s my father was the treasurer of a church in Arizona. Disturbed by what they had seen from the national office of his church; involvement with Castro, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and various UN initiatives, he and | Read More »
This will not be one of my typical long explanations as to why the Left does what it does. On April 19th (Hitler’s birthday) 27 year-old Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 died. A cold chill ran up my spine. This was the first time a home-grown American had taken innocent lives to make a political point. Then on | Read More »
From the diaries. – Caleb Only last week I wrote a piece The Next President, Seeking a Legacy of Leadership, in which I responded to a commenter with:..I’d love to be able to talk to many of the candidates… …and lo and behold, a member of Herman Cain’s staff calls to ask if I’d like to talk to Mr Cain. So, on New Year’s Eve | Read More »
OK, I’ve checked all the birth certificates in the Shantytown Hall of Records, and can’t find a single child named Reince born to anyone in the lower 99% of American income levels, although I did find several Dawg’s and even a few Jedidiah’s. And just one Vassar. Probably got picked on in school, too. But I digress. There is speculation right now as to whether | Read More »
At some point, and I hope you will agree, there comes a time when it’s time to stop wondering what to think about a thing, and start thinking about what to do about it. I don’t need anyone to tell me the Democrats as currently comprised are a race of liars and thieves. I don’t need anyone to remind me that the media aren’t really | Read More »
You may think it strange that Christmas makes me think of V I Lenin, the founder of the USSR. But for 50 years he was the symbol of everything good and holy in a powerful and sizeable portion of the world. As Mark Twain once said of the Devil, “anyone who is spiritual head of half the world…and political head of the whole of it” | Read More »
I’d always grouped Lindsay Graham with the French, who, maybe once every century, did or said anything memorable. But as Erick quoted Graham yesterday, it was a doozie. “I can understand the Democrats being afraid of the new Republicans; I can’t understand Republicans being afraid of the new Republicans.” There you have it. Charles Krauthammer said that this had been a very good week for | Read More »
Sometimes a single image from a film can make a thousand impressions. You know, like the shower scene from “Psycho”. Another was the trailing image of “Santa Fe Trail” a perfectly awful movie of Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) trying to round up John Brown, the radical abolitionist, (Raymond Massey) at Harper’s Ferry. Brown had run a reign a terror through | Read More »
Another in a series about common people I wish you could have known. I was born in a small town of just over a thousand people. It was a company town that ran the length of a creek that hugged a huge mountain, for most of a mile. The entire town was on one side of the creek, the streets all running perpendicular to the | Read More »
The 60 plus freshmen Republican congressmen and women will not take office until January 5th. There is a lot of water that will run under the legislative bridge before then…primarily the extension of the Bush tax cuts and what is now being called “The Deal” struck between Obama and the GOP House and Senate Leadership. This isn’t about that tax deal. Rather, this is how | Read More »
No slander ever accused Bob Dylan of being a “conservative” as we know the meaning of the term. In the early 1960s he was a “Liberal” kid-philosopher/poet, just a few years older than me. But was he really of the Left? After all, Dylan was a Civil Rights poet who seems to have actually believed his own stuff. And still does. Moreover, it seems, while | Read More »
JadedbyPolitics makes her case for a Sarah Palin candidacy here. Now, I’m not willing to put any of my eggs into an unannounced basket. I hold to my previous caution that we should concentrate on things, not people for the bulk of 2011. So, it’s Sarah’s “bag of possibles” (an old fur trapping term), her attributes, i find far more interesting right now. But I | Read More »
Ronald Reagan said we are the Last Stand on Earth, while George Soros said we are the Last Impediment. For the still-undecided, can it get any simpler than that? A time for thanks is once again upon us, only Thanks this year, to me at least, takes on a much deeper and richer meaning. Most of us will once again gather round the family table, | Read More »
The Set-Up First we make them afraid. Check Then we make them aware we’re still watching. We didn’t just vote, then walk away. We’re still watching. That’s next. Now, we need to remind them we’re not just watching but we’re closely watching. No more Mr Nice Guys. The Left needs to know we’re not going away, and our own Congressman need to know we’re not | Read More »
We’ve said all this before, in other contexts, but I put it here again, to explain how the new class in Congress should see their commission, and tangentially, how the people who put them there, and the Tea Parties, should see them now that they have gone from being “outsiders” to “insiders”. It’s all about information. The Japanese have a saying that every man consists | Read More »
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