By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 31st at 07:47 PM  | 

Finally, Speaker Boehner shows some courage and, basically, tells President Obama and Senator Reid to go play with themselves until they decide to get serious about the nation’s quandary. In a surprising but appropriate move, Boehner sent the House home before the Senate finished putting together yet another raise taxes/spend more/cut nothing rip off bill — signaling the House’s willingness to go over the cliff | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 30th at 11:53 AM  | 

So, according to the Department of Justice, Americans lose their religious liberty when they go into business and thus, must forsake their conscience and comply with the requirement to provide abortifacient drugs in the health care plans they provide to their employees beginning January 1, 2013. That was the response from DOJ when the Hobby Lobby filed suit in September to get relief from the | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 21st at 10:49 AM  | 

It is time to make changes in the House — primarily in the leadership. There has been a slow movement toward acknowledging that Speaker Boehner can no longer pretend he is the best man for the job. If he were less of a political animal and more of a principled statesman, he would do the right thing and withdraw his name from consideration for Speaker | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 19th at 08:29 PM  | 

When RedState recently made huge changes to their website — including switching to Disqus, many of the member diarists — myself included — were very disappointed when the transfer of our old diaries was unsuccessful. For me, my diaries represented a personal history of my experiences in the political realm and losing access to referencing them leaves me more prone to repetition when I write. | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 16th at 04:18 PM  | 

As we continue on in the war to save America, it is time for the Christians to regroup and keep in mind what the Bible teaches us about who and what is behind the warfare we are engaged in. Many have been lulled into a stupor and have forgotten that Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection was not the end of the war…just a huge and | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 6th at 10:39 AM  | 

There is little more to report at this point.  Fox News just reported that South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint is leaving his senate post early in January to go to work at the Heritage Foundation. This is shocking news.  He was just reelected in 2010 and has four more years left to serve.  More info will be forthcoming. If there were a way to | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  December 4th at 01:05 PM  | 

Rather than recap what took place in court last night, I will just paste the entire article from the Pacific Justice Institute here: Sacramento, CA–In a pivotal 38-page ruling released this evening, United States District Court Judge William Shubb sided with Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) by granting their plaintiffs a preliminary injunction against California SB 1172—a new California law which prohibits licensed counseling of minors | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  November 30th at 02:49 PM  | 

With so much focus on the elections, I was not able to follow closely the shenanigans taking place in Sacramento regarding a controversial bill that was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September.  The bill essentially bans any counselors from assisting adult or minor clients with “sexual orientation change efforts” and will go into effect January 1. The Pacific Justice Institute, a non-profit | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  November 21st at 09:47 AM  | 

The personal irony I feel over the election results is like a double-edged sword. Before Romney slashed and burned his way to win the primary, I did not mince words in conveying my contempt for him and spoke with certainty that he would lose if he became our nominee.  But when the inevitable was foisted upon us and he became King Crap of Republican Pooh | Read More »

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  November 17th at 11:21 AM  | 

Why can’t we have non-denominational political parties? I’ve always been deeply suspicious of large organizations.   The bigger the scarier.   Human beings have a way of taking great ideas, forming them into grand structural artifacts and then, eventually, contorting them into unrecognizable, grotesque organizations with only scant traces of what the founding mission statement set out to embody. Stick with me.  I’m going somewhere | Read More »