http://www.redstate.com/wellsy Just another RedState: Conservative News and Community weblog Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:55:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vice President Joe Biden was in upstate New York today stumping for Bill Owens in the heated NY-23 Congressional special election. You know, the one that doesn't matter and has no national portent whatsoever, except if Owens wins, of course. In any event, Biden had a few words to say ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/11/02/biden-absolutists-and-irony/ The small town of Kinston, NC, population 23,000, voted to do away with partisan elections, meaning party affiliation would be meaningless in local contests. To comply with the Voting Rights Act, they first had to get the approval of the Justice Department, which in an opinion devoid of logic denied ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/10/21/justice-dept-black-voters-need-democratic-party-listed/ The Nobel Peace Prize was already flirting with irrelevance after recent selections like Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and Jimmy Carter, but after the award was today announced as going to President Barack Obama, in office for only nine months and for only 12 days when the nomination period expired, the award ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/10/09/nobel-peace-prize-now-officially-a-joke-after-obama-selection/ Pick your preferred source on this one, whether it's the AP or the Times of London. The Obama administration appears to be headed down a course that would see the focus of military operations in Afghanistan shift away from fighting the Taliban toward simply hunting al-Qaeda. During the shift the ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/10/08/obama-to-shift-focus-away-from-taliban/ Controversy has been swirling the last few days over the Associated Press' decision to publish a photo depicting Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard mortally wounded in combat. The picture shows the massive leg injuries of Lance Cpl. Bernard, sustained during an ambush grenade attack, to which Bernard later succumbed. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/09/07/controversy-over-ap-picture-of-mortally-wounded-marine/ After a brutal August recess, there's more bad news for Congress today from the Pew Research Center, who finds Congress' favorability rating at 37%, which is the worst it's had in 24 years. In addition, Democrats are clinging to a 1% margin of people who would vote for them over a Republican ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/09/02/congressional-approval-the-worst-in-a-quarter-century/ In a must-read article on Big Hollywood, Patrick Courrielche relates his musing related to conference call on August 10th hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve. The call was aimed at "a group of artists, producers, promoters, organizers, ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/08/26/is-the-nea-pushing-obamas-agenda/ According to a Gallup poll, more people now self-identify as conservative than as liberal in all 50 American states. 40% of respondents have called themselves "conservative" or "very conservative," while 21% call themselves liberal, and 35% moderate. As I've noted before in these ideological surveys, it's hard to gauge the ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/08/17/gallup-conservatives-outnumber-liberals-in-all-50-states/ Rep. Steve Dreihaus and Rep. Steve Kagan are two of the latest Congressmen to feel the wrath of their constituents over health care reform, cap and trade, and other issues. Meanwhile, the push is on to trivialize and demonize the backlash that's going on at local town hall meetings. The DNC ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/08/04/irony-hypocrisy-in-criticism-of-pushback-on-health-care/ As the Senate wraps up its business and the House heads home for vacation, the debate over health care reform continues. Central to the Democrats' selling of their health care proposal is the notion that their "public option" won't lead to government takeover of health care and won't lead to the ... http://www.redstate.com/wellsy/2009/08/04/time-for-a-little-honesty-from-public-option-supporters/